Why are US consumers so angry? It's not just high prices
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Why are US consumers so angry? It's not just high prices
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Re: Why are US consumers so angry? It's not just high prices
#2Before reading my guess is the shit quality of products.
Edit: 1/2 right, it's also shit service.
Re: Why are US consumers so angry? It's not just high prices
#3Before reading my guess is the shit quality of products. Edit: 1/2 right, it's also shit service.
One of the lead paragraph issues, yes. You win the steak knives!
Re: Why are US consumers so angry? It's not just high prices
#4Before reading my guess is the shit quality of products. Edit: 1/2 right, it's also shit service.
In a way, shit quality/service is basically a form of high prices. If something that costs $20 and shouldn’t break for 4 years, breaks in 2 weeks, you effectively paid a high price for a $2 product.
Re: Why are US consumers so angry? It's not just high prices
#5A thousand examples of efficiency and ease has me standing in a broken self checkout buying some fake-ocean scented deodorant I probably done need but was perfectly marketed to make me feel inept without it, in a plastic container that was bigger last year but now costs $9 and the scanner thinks I didn't put it in the bag yet and I’m just so sad to fight or resist after an 9 hour work day that ill end up going home and eat frozen food and watching a bad remake of an old blockbuster. Of course consumers should be angry. The lies and greed are gutting society while rewarding white color mid level VPs at PG and Kroger. What a future to be excited about.
Re: Why are US consumers so angry? It's not just high prices
#6> Nearly 80% of Americans had a service or product problem in 2025, and about two-thirds of those felt “rage” about it
"Rage" is has been encouraged and reinforced as an appropriate reaction to what is most likely a simple mistake or process breakdown. Another way that social media and algorithmic feeds have pandered to our base emotions. We are becoming a world of tantrum-throwing toddlers.
Re: Why are US consumers so angry? It's not just high prices
#7Before reading my guess is the shit quality of products. Edit: 1/2 right, it's also shit service.
One of the lead paragraph issues, yes. You win the steak knives!
Please read the fine print before use. The steak knives are not to be used with animal products and poster will not be responsible in case of cracked blade.
Re: Why are US consumers so angry? It's not just high prices
#8> Nearly 80% of Americans had a service or product problem in 2025, and about two-thirds of those felt “rage” about it "Rage" is has been encouraged and reinforced as an appropriate reaction to what is most likely a simple mistake or process breakdown. Another way that social media and algorithmic feeds have pandered to our base emotions. We are becoming a world of tantrum-throwing toddlers.
Processes are hollow and some AI isn’t making my life any better. Goods are junk and there are few examples of common physical craftsmanship in the marketplace. MAGA just want a well made jacket but they are on a life line of Walmart wages and goods. I get it. Rage is appropriate yet misguided.
Re: Why are US consumers so angry? It's not just high prices
#9Before reading my guess is the shit quality of products. Edit: 1/2 right, it's also shit service.
In a way, shit quality/service is basically a form of high prices. If something that costs $20 and shouldn’t break for 4 years, breaks in 2 weeks, you effectively paid a high price for a $2 product.
Good point. Things cost more not just in unit cost but amortized over the item's lifetime (or I guess put differently, how much Refrigerator $ you spend over the course of your life).
Re: Why are US consumers so angry? It's not just high prices
#10Before reading my guess is the shit quality of products. Edit: 1/2 right, it's also shit service.
In a way, shit quality/service is basically a form of high prices. If something that costs $20 and shouldn’t break for 4 years, breaks in 2 weeks, you effectively paid a high price for a $2 product.
>If something that costs $20 and shouldn’t break for 4 years, breaks in 2 weeks, you effectively paid a high price for a $2 product.
not true if all the other knives on the market at that price have the same performance, in which case that's just "the price of such a knife." in order to have paid too much there needs to be cheaper options with the same or better performance.