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That shit is bad for your health.
I used to buy chips all the time. Now it’s not worth it, so it’s down to the occasional bag every 3 months or so.
Same, though with regular chips instead of Doritos. I just bought a bag of potatoes instead on my last grocery store trip. I figure if I’m craving them, I could just bake some or look up a recipe (if I’m feeling adventurous.) Thank goodness there are a million ways to enjoy potatoes!
There has been some speculation that the issue is actually that people could no longer use SNAP benefits to buy them, as the timing of everything was somewhat aligned.
Not sure if this source is trustworthy, but https://selfreliancecentral.com/2026/02/12/wondering-why-snacks-just-got-cheaper-snap/
Sorry, all my money goes to my landlord so I can rent a basement. I have a terrible housing addiction and there us no signs of it slowing down.
our grandparents used to work hard for their children and wives. We work hard for our landlords
heard your government outlawed clinics for those suffering homefulness withdrawal 🥀
Have you tried camping, or perhaps sleeping in your car or under a bridge?
I mean, it’s not a perfect solution, but harm reduction is improvement, right?
The amount of municipalities that won’t even allow that is shocking.
It’s not just the higher cost, it’s the smaller size of the bag too. Shrinkflation. Been seeing it a lot on Ruffles chips in particular.
On the plus side I’m trying a ton of smaller company lesser known items now! Until they’re acquired.
The regular price for a bag of Doritos has been roughly $5 at my local store for the last few years. Just the other week I noticed they started printing something like “new lower price” directly on the bag. The new price? About $5.
Yeah, junk food has always been the low cost option. That’s why it exists. I hate to tell them this, but Dorito is not a boutique brand nor is it a staple item. The generic brands are roughly equivalent and half price.
amazing, these ghouls discussing people being unwilling to pay $7 for a bag of doritos like it’s some puzzling abnormality and not the most obvious fucking thing in the world
My interpretation is that the “puzzling abnormality” they are showing here is for Pepsico setting the price so high, not on consumers for no longer buying them. That’s why they made the little Claude jab in there. They were shocked at the price and that’s why they were asking about the size of the bag, etc…
Doritos are $9 CAD ($6.50 USD) at my closest Costco, haven’t bought doritos in years
please, Americans, go buy some bags so we don’t have to bail pepsico out with our tax money
I’m surprised they still think that they can get away with $3 for a 20-ounce soda, although I know the gas stations have something to do with that.
That’ll be the cold sodas. Wander over to the aisle with room-temperature 2L bottles and they’re the same price as the small bottles in the fridge. Yeah, nah, I don’t need a cold soda that much.
And if I did, I’d casually take a cup from the coffee area and fill it with ice. I’ve done it countless times (because I like cold coffee), and only once has an employee said something - telling me I had to pay for the ice. I begrudgingly paid that one time (like 25 cents or something?), but after that I figured that if an employee were to give me shit about paying for a cup of ice again, I’d just leave all my potential-purchases at the counter and walk out.
Thankfully, it hasn’t come to that. Yet. I just avoided that particular store for a while afterwards. Their competitors all sell the same things, and after this episode I straight-up asked an employee at one of the competing stores about the price of a cup of ice - just to be aware beforehand. She made a weird face and said that they never charge for just a cup of ice. Like the idea sounded almost too absurd.
So yeah. Anyway. Thanks for putting up with my ramblings.
I haven’t bought Pepsico or Frito-lay chips in years. But I’m fortunate that here in Ohio every county seems to still have their own independent chip company and I am happy to pay $6 for a family size bag of chips made right here in town vs $5 for a bag for mass produced crap.
