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Re: Shrinkflation Tracker

#11

Post by read_if_gay_ »

lotsofpulp wrote: post #9
atmanactive wrote: post #2

Great idea! I'm afraid this would require at least a hundred employees to keep it current and useful, though. But, as a society, we definitely need this. Maybe if some government agency could back it up?

Why would this benefit society? Price per unit is a trivial calculation, and most grocery stores already show it on the price tag. Change in price over time is irrelevant for making a decision on whether or not something is worth the utility to price ratio now. If you are trying to time the market on junk food, then it is best to simply avoid it. If, for some reason, you want to prevent Mondelez, or whichever other m…

i can't believe the sole use you could think of is timing the market on junk food

Re: Shrinkflation Tracker

#12

Post by phailhaus »

Super cool! Very clean, nice font. Some UX things I noticed:

1. In the scrolling feed on the homepage, a 0% change is shown as negative with a red down arrow

2. In the tracker page, 0% is grey (good!) but still with a down arrow, which isn't accurate

3. Might be a good idea to highlight egregious offenders over small decreases. Maybe bold the value if it's greater than 10-15%?

4. Would be cool to be able to sort to see the worst offenders!

Re: Shrinkflation Tracker

#13

Post by [deleted] »

read_if_gay_ wrote: post #11
lotsofpulp wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why would this benefit society? Price per unit is a trivial calculation, and most grocery stores already show it on the price tag. Change in price over time is irrelevant for making a decision on whether or not something is worth the utility to price ratio now. If you are trying to time the market on junk food, then it is best to simply avoid it. If, for some reason, you want to prevent Mondelez, or whichever other m…

i can't believe the sole use you could think of is timing the market on junk food

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Re: Shrinkflation Tracker

#14

Post by eatsyourtacos »

lotsofpulp wrote: post #9
atmanactive wrote: post #2

Great idea! I'm afraid this would require at least a hundred employees to keep it current and useful, though. But, as a society, we definitely need this. Maybe if some government agency could back it up?

Why would this benefit society? Price per unit is a trivial calculation, and most grocery stores already show it on the price tag. Change in price over time is irrelevant for making a decision on whether or not something is worth the utility to price ratio now. If you are trying to time the market on junk food, then it is best to simply avoid it. If, for some reason, you want to prevent Mondelez, or whichever other m…

>Why would this benefit society?

To put factual and open information out there of how companies consistently just fuck with all of us and get away with every little thing they can because "profits!" and "their duty to investors!". e.g., the biggest lies our societies ever came up with

Re: Shrinkflation Tracker

#15

Post by lotsofpulp »

eatsyourtacos wrote: post #14
lotsofpulp wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why would this benefit society? Price per unit is a trivial calculation, and most grocery stores already show it on the price tag. Change in price over time is irrelevant for making a decision on whether or not something is worth the utility to price ratio now. If you are trying to time the market on junk food, then it is best to simply avoid it. If, for some reason, you want to prevent Mondelez, or whichever other m…

>Why would this benefit society? To put factual and open information out there of how companies consistently just fuck with all of us and get away with every little thing they can because "profits!" and "their duty to investors!". e.g., the biggest lies our societies ever came up with

It is already open information that pretty much every seller of everything in the whole world tries to sell for as high of a price that they think can get.

And that purchasing power of currencies will go down over time.

Re: Shrinkflation Tracker

#18

Post by tristor »

lotsofpulp wrote: post #8
ilyt wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Well, till you need to get 2 burgers instead of one to feel full...

That is the point, people eat fewer burgers because they cannot afford more.

Yes, GP is absolutely correct, all the people in the developing world who can't afford food are much healthier than those of us in the West, that live long enough and eat enough to deal with diseases of obesity that primarily affect one after 60 years of age. /s

Re: Shrinkflation Tracker

#19

Post by lotsofpulp »

tristor wrote: post #18
lotsofpulp wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That is the point, people eat fewer burgers because they cannot afford more.

Yes, GP is absolutely correct, all the people in the developing world who can't afford food are much healthier than those of us in the West, that live long enough and eat enough to deal with diseases of obesity that primarily affect one after 60 years of age. /s

The context is not affording junk food, not not affording food. Most burgers qualify as junk food.

Re: Shrinkflation Tracker

#20

Post by boxed »

phailhaus wrote: post #12

Super cool! Very clean, nice font. Some UX things I noticed: 1. In the scrolling feed on the homepage, a 0% change is shown as negative with a red down arrow 2. In the tracker page, 0% is grey (good!) but still with a down arrow, which isn't accurate 3. Might be a good idea to highlight egregious offenders over small decreases. Maybe bold the value if it's greater than 10-15%? 4. Would be cool to be able to sort to s…

I wonder why 0% items are shown on the big list at all. Like having a page of murderers with random innocent people with a text label under "not a murderer" :P
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