Disgusted!!! Paying the *same* price... for *LESS*!!!

You make this sound like it is something new. It isn't. My mother tells me candy cars in the 40's and 50's were much larger. Even now go grab a single serving size bottle of milk at the gas station and they'be gone from 16oz to 12oz but the price didn't change.

Not everything though is the fault of the 'greedy' corporation. When manufacturing costs, the price of the products go up. As a manufacturer you have a number of options. Increase the price, decrease the product, or cut margins.

Millions have lost substantial amounts in their 401k's and IRA. Cutting margins is not going to be productive to shareholders. And whether you pay more, or get less, you're not going to get as much as you did for your money. Welcome to inflation, the cost of overspending on credit.

So, deception is the "new norm"...

Yep ... this started happening years ago ... when the 5 lb bags of sugar were replaced with 4 lb bags.

About 6 months ago, I noticed a reduction in our favorite ice-cream packaging, but now they're offering 20% more free.

When the ice-cream packaging first shrunk, ... we just figured that we probably needed to eat less anyway.

ice cream now come in a 1 1/2 qt instead of a half gallon and some places have even raised the prices.

they have been slowly downsizing the packages for the last couple of years, they always redesign the outside so you dont notice.

Adad,

I ran into the down sizing on ice cream like Cookin Mama(love the handle BTW)>

It made me sad... :(

How about baskin and robbins hubby and I went into one recently and were shocked at how much a 2 scoop one was without a cone was almost 10.00 for the 2 of us and it did not taste as good as we remembered, not going back again. use cheaper ingredient's and downsize and charge more yea for corporate GREED.

I love the Minnis. My Mazda 6 will be paid off next year and it's on my short list along with the Prius, Civic hybrid, or Fusion. I saw the cutest mini convertable last week.

It's a myth that we need big cars. Most trips are in town with one person in the car.

True TJG. I'm trying to drive less and usually ride my bike to work in the summer and shower in the cath labs shower room, but now they have started giving the floor nurses the stink eye when we use their showers and sending nasty emails. Surgery has never been open to us using their shower rooms, and I can't work a twelve hour shift stinking of funk and sweat.

That's a tough one, LizLiz. So long as you aren't causing mayhem, I wouldn't see a problem.

Heck, my Dawg would't fit in a mini, much less tools.........

Personally, I miss my 47 Cheverolet Stylemaster Coupe. It was like taking the living room sofa for a spin....

Eat Mo Possum

have a friend who had a mini he got rid of it was tired of always fixing it.

have a friend who had a mini he got rid of it was tired of always fixing it.

Huh. The people I know who have them have had few issues.

And they are more spacious on the inside than most imagine. It is this thinking that we need big vehicles that is destroying the environment and the country.

Maybe he had a lemon but he had to keep replacing the same part at over 500.00 a pop for just the part. Or it was because he drove it alot he is a salesman and put alot of miles on it in a day. So he bought another small car.

Hey, I LOVE my MINI!!! I don't have kids and don't need a big car and MINI is fun and speedy. Not everyone needs a huge-ass SUV. I have no problem getting everything into the MINI. Besides, my car is bigger than my husband's Honda Insight two-seater *grin*.

I must be strange in America because I LOVE driving small cars! I feel like I have a lot more control over them and can more easily avoid being in an accident. I sometimes have to drive cars that belong to my other family members (who, unlike me, like HUGE vehicles), and it's nerve-wracking. The things are so freakin' huge that I feel like I'm halfway in the other lane and have trouble parking them. I remember the time when I was the designated driver for a bunch of my friends in a Ford Expedition. We would have been safer with one of them driving it!

Like JonesGirl said, we don't need these huge vehicles. I certainly believe that everyone is free to drive whatever vehicle they like (we all have different preferences, after all), but the idea that you MUST drive an Excursion to carry a week's worth of groceries (or, my favorite, "I'm having a baby, so I NEED the biggest SUV there is!") is just bull. My family of four (two of whom are, ahem, very large people) can fit comfortably in our 91 Loyale. It's just not necessary.

Not really..our shampoo is still 32oz., our toothpaste is still 8oz, deodorant is still 4 oz., up in price a little..yes, but the sizes have not changed.

Maybe I live in an alternative universe, but, we have not noticed anything we buy to be reduced in size and only pennies higher.

I can only go by what I know....

I would love to have one of the originals, but I wouldn't own one of the new ones.

I would love to have one of the originals, but I wouldn't own one of the new ones.

The new ones are very safe.

Not everything in a bigger package is always better sometimes the small is much cheaper they count on us not doing comparison shopping.

I've found that by buying the "generic" cereals I'm saving a lot. I'm paying $1 for an 8 oz box, whereas I'd pay $3 for a 12 oz box of the name brands. Hmmm....even WITH coupons, it isn't worth it!

I've found that by buying the "generic" cereals I'm saving a lot.

I'm all for that, but around here I've never seen a generic version.

You know what else has shrunk? Tuna. Some brands have gone from 6 to 5oz.

at costco the tuna is a 7 oz can with alot less water also. The rollbacks at wally world are a misnomer one thing comes way down and other goes way way up.

I wish we had something besides an Albertsons or a Walmart here =(.

So u don't have a Safeway near u???

Nope, just Albertsons, Walmart and a few mom and pop type set ups. I get so jealous when I hear you all talking about places like Trader Joe's and Costco's.

Well, that's just depressin'!!! Can u shop online???

I could I suppose....but I love to go to those grocery stores when I am in bigger or major cities. If I am driving I stock up then on the dry goods and things that don't need refrigeration. =)

Sometimes I ship stuff home. You guys don't know how lucky you are when it comes to shopping.

i dont like albertsons either too expensive same as with any of those card stores to get the deal of the week, they sell the item at cost or below and raise the price of everything else. Gotcha. That is a downside to the area you live in not to many choices.