priceIncrease – Chuck the Blogger Guy

We need to stop making more cars.

The year of the embargo. The price per gallon went from 29-cents to 59-cents almost overnight. The year was 1973 and we were living in Hawaii. Our favorite place to fill up our 1963 Plymouth Valiant with regular gasoline was at the Penny automotive center just down the street and above Peral harbor. BackContinue reading “We need to stop making more cars.”

Less product for more money.

Shrinkflation. What is it? I generally am not litigious but I very much would like to sue the fashion industry. They too have jumped on this “shrinkflation” concept. Reduced product size but selling at the same old price. As you might have noticed with other consumer goods that they are becoming less in size orContinue reading “Less product for more money.”

The more you pay the less you get.

Have you noticed this? Or am I the only one? They call it ‘Shrinkflation.” An example of shrinkflation is my granola bar I have been eating for years. My oat and walnut crunchy granola bar that I pay about a dollar for use to be about four and a half inches long. But after aboutContinue reading “The more you pay the less you get.”