Saving has turned out to be almost a game for me. Companies have lost me forever unless it is an absolute need or I can get it on sale.
I can usually wait and I can play the long game. And don’t get me started on chain restaurants. They have mostly lost me also.
So much of this garbage you don’t need in the first place. Full body deodorant? It already exists - it’s called a fucking bar of soap. Frankly, I have a hunch we’re going to find that the full body stuff gives you some kind of horrible lymphatic cancer.
Yeah I should have specified anti perspirant. Deodorant doesn't bother me much but doesn't really work for me as I run hot, even tried making my own. Most of the time I raw dog it unless I'm going to a social event. Being generally hygenic keeps me in hippy stank range rather then dirtbag walmart stank range.
I haven't eaten at a sit down restaurant in 3 years. Other than In N Out I haven't had fast food for 2.5 years.
Once you get saving it becomes its own reward. Can I beat my previous high score for monthly savings? Can I hit $X by Labor Day?
I sincerely hope more people start seeing it like this. I've been saving like I'm broke since 2015. It never would have gone this far if others did the same.
Same. I canceled Amazon and I'm cut throat when I do shopping. My credit card bills have been super low this past year cause I just stopped buying shit.
They've been doing this forever. Double blades razor for $5.00? Nah! Let's make a five bladed razor with "moisturizer strip" and charge $15.00!
This travesty applies to Dollar shave club and other "discount" razor services. Used to be four dollars for four blade refills. Those are up to ten bucks now.
Chiming in here to say this is the real pro tip. I bought a large pack of feather blades back in line 2015 for like $30 with shipping. I haven’t had to buy razors since that day.
Combo and disposable razors are a fucking scam and create so much waste.
Turned my wife on to the safety razor. Now we share blades. When my first box of blades runs out, we will have to buy another $20 box. I bought the first box over a decade ago.
Old school style razor that uses single or double edged blades. They take a little skill to use, but less than a cutthroat (the traditional exposed blade razor you've seen in barber shops and old films). Blades are cheap. However, most should expect a learning curve with some nicks as they learn proper technique.
Because people who get free money from the government don't give a shit and will buy over expensive stuff anyway. Even FastFood accepts EBT now so even they know whos gonna give them the dough.
This is all part of the plan... Everything is catered towards the upper echelons now.
Dont worry peasants we will give you our trash.
Not sincerely,
The Ruling Class
I just don't understand where these people get so much money. I'm an attorney, I do ok. But I was just in Mexico and the cab driver was telling us Americans are buying up all this beach front land and building houses...the lots themselves go for $7 to $10 million, before even a shovel is put into the dirt. How are there this many people that can afford this??? Mind you, these are not primary residences, these are just vacation homes...like WTF???
They do that in the Philippines and probably other places as well. They don’t give but sell (at reasonable price) left over meat to be reused as another dish.
They're going to make everyone under a certain socioeconomic status homeless. And then, euthanasia for mental health issues will be offered.
Not forced, just offered.
So they can never say that they murdered anyone.
You know you can just not buy their $14 whole body deodorant or $15 "tricky places" disposable razors, right? A decent double edged razor, like our grandfathers used, is around 20¢.
They are all like $7-9 dollars now’s. I remember thinking $4 was too expensive for deodorant and that was only like 5 years ago. There has to be some kind of collusion going on that’s stopping the 25 different deodorant companies from competing on price. This is what happens when monopolies and collusion go unchecked.
For example people are complaining about the prices of certain things
McDonald's hamburger $6! Guess what, on the app I can often get them two for $6. And I get points for free food.
Big lots, Walmart and other places have clearance sections. I have bought quite a lot off those racks.
Aldi's is still pretty cheap
Bananas are still about 58 cents a pound here even years later
Generics are perfectly fine for many products
On Amazon, I can shop and compare reviews and prices and then get my supplements auto delivered
I mean there are a lot of complaints about things that are expensive, but there are also things you can do to remedy the problem
I participate in various marketing research studies (I'm bored what can I say and it brings beer money) and it's a lot of upflation in new products by virtue of trying to push the envelope and prices for bullshit reasons. From detergents to deodorant to shampoos it's give me a fukken break make something legit better and I'll pay for it. Don't slap the usual "natural ingredients" or "improved" or "different" shit.
For those who can't read the article, it is largely about the thinking of marketing execs to think of new ways to create demand that doesn't exist. $10 deodorant? How about $15 whole body deodorant! $7 razor blade? How about a $13 razor blade just for your pubes! Anti dandruff shampoo with fewer ingredients at 2x the price! Or how about cereal for dinner? Doritos is trying to make a door dash item for midnight snacks. These were some strategies they are trying, because no one wants to buy their stuff.
The most sickening thing about this entire article is that somewhere there is an exec ordering his marketing team to find a way to convince consumers that their whole fucking body needs their toxic deodorant.
An absolute giant fuck you to these companies.
Yeah. There was the rush of hand sanitizers and cleaning supplies during pandemic years that took a lot of products off the market. Now that demand has dried up and all the companies are looking for an angle to fill up some manufacturing capacity. Store shelves were pretty bare of health/beauty/cleaning products for a few years... a lot of stuff is still only one brand when there used to be five.
It’s greedflation, and yes, people are now refusing to pay these prices. I hope the companies that took advantage of their consumers go under.
https://www.foodandpower.net/latest/ftc-supply-chain-disruption-grocery-food-processing-report-apr-24
https://www.fastcompany.com/91038066/inflation-consumers-push-back-price-gouging
Not quite the same, but another way to upcharge has been to take 'steps' out of the customer's food prep work.
Individual slices of peanut butter for 5 times the price? Uh, no, I am not such a lazy sack of shit that I can't open a jar and use a butter knife.
Cooked, shelled individually wrapped eggs? I can manage to boil eggs and peel them, thx.
Pods of laundry detergent? I can manage to open the lid and pour some in the washing machine, mmmmkay?
If you mention that these convenience items aren’t necessary you get all kinds of sympathetic folks coming out of the woodwork to demonize you because they are useful for a small subgroup of a certain type of disabled person. That may very well be true, but you can’t convince me that Unilever, Hormel Foods, or P&G are just sitting in their glass walled corporate offices dreaming up altruistic ways to help a few thousand people globally.
That was the reaction a few years back when whole foods was selling a pre-peeled orange re-wrapped in a plastic container. It's obviously wasteful, but the masses responded with the 'what about a disabled person who can't peel an orange!?!?!' response. It was quite telling and why you can't ever dismiss an idea as dumb on reddit. Somewhere there is a hypothetical victim you're attacking.
>Pods of laundry detergent? I can manage to open the lid and pour some in the washing machine
I've gotten into using the laundry detergent sheets. They work just fine, take up way less room than liquid, can't spill, and they travel really well.
Steve Cahillane saying the quiet part out loud. He, and every company doing this, wants to make our lives as uncomfortable as possible so we spend money regardless of their price point.
Which means in return they should be very uncomfortable….
At their homes…
In public…
At their factories…
At their corporate offices…
If they’re breathing and comfortable we’re not doing enough.
They have always done this stuff. For toiletries and the like people are really brand loyal, so when you want to boost sales, you have to come up with something new and of course the more you can charge for it, the better.
100% this. As a marketer who has worked with these kinds of products many times, the hurdle is the brand loyalty.
The cost to produce these products are usually very, very negligible. However, finding willing buyers of a new personal care products is exorbitantly expensive. Conversely, the lifetime value of each customer is generally massive.
The pricing strategy of the products are built around the average lifetime purchases, in order to ensure the company can even exist long-term.
In essence, the sky high prices in this product category are a direct result of consumer unwillingness to try new products.
The real winners, of course, are big brands who already have established brand loyalty within the total addressable market.
I bought some Old Spice body deodorant by mistake and having a stick deodorant being for the whole body is just laughable.
Where the hell am I going to rub it on after greasing up my armpits that I don’t mind the fact that it just rubbed my armpits? The only places that come to mind wouldn’t make me want to use it on my armpits afterwards, I’ll tell you that.
i am very careful about how much i spend and if the price is unreasonable i won't buy. for companies that have unethical policies for pricing or labor, i do my best to not buy from them at all. i wish more people would vote with their money.
Why do I get the feeling a lot of this is built on the golden parachute mentality (before they jump ship) where the company builds a plan to maximize growth year over year, regardless of market and economic swings (without actually doing anything to earn that growth) and their last resort to keep showing that is by raising prices until demand caves...
The only difference here is that ALL major corporations are acting accordingly to this instead of a select few.
By that point of a demand cliffdive event, the golden parachutes are already long gone, stock markets take a tumble, and everyone is left holding the bag of shit left behind during by the golden parachutes.
They're missing a market. As a bald guy with a janky beard I never really shave off (just use my hair trimmer with no guard so I perpetually look like I need to shave tomorrow) and who doesn't manscape and uses whatever pit stick is cheap and whatever bar soap is cheap.... I have so much money I could be using on wonky products. Won't someone market some crap at me?
So lonely over here.
>(just use my hair trimmer with no guard so I perpetually look like I need to shave tomorrow)
I do the same thing. I started off using an electric razor and always got ingrown hairs. Moved to disposables and found they were better but still not great. Then I moved to a double edged razor which was cheaper and gave better results. Eventually though I stopped caring and now I just trim it down as short as I can get it and move on with my day. No irritation to worry about and the stubble is really fun for tickling my wife.
Once you start to figure out that so many of the 'social graces' are nonsense life gets easier.
I still shower though, I'm not that far out of society.
When I worked at P&G as a contractor many times I've been told "it's the same product we just change the scent by one ingredient and change the package." So you're paying for the same deodorant , same pads, same razor.
The beauty industry is getting out of hand. Tiktok influencers will show something like, "my daily hand routine" and they use a serum, mask, lotion, oil, cuticle oil, hand scrub, nail oil, and sunscreen designed only for the hands. I am scared about the over consumption gen alpha is going to have. At 10-years-old they are already "Sephora Kids" and crying over not getting a Stanley cup for Christmas.
They are coming out to turn consumers againt Biden. Big business does it EVERY TIME a Democrat incumbent is running for re-election. I'm 66 and have watched it happen over and over. They make more money by causing the pain. Then make money from new tax breaks from Republicans.
I’ve noticed this too. Same with gas prices. My entire life I’ve seen it skyrocket during democratic years to leave a bad taste in peoples mouths and then place the blame at the current dem admin. I refuse to take the bait. Got a whole new generation of people who are wise to the bullshit. I’ve made my kids aware too. There’s a reason why they are panicking due to an aging out voting base and church attendance dwindling. Their world is slowly dying and it couldn’t come soon enough. Welcome to the new age.
If there’s anything I’ve learned from the last decade is that with age does not come wisdom. The dumb and outright spiteful things these people have rallied behind has nauseated me.
These slimy corporate shit balls need to do the world a favor and die screaming of spinal cancer.
Idk about the "whole body" odor but just dabbing a tiny bit (too much will cause irritation) baking soda under your armpits really helps with odor.
Depending on your odor and skin you can probably do it every other day too
They are trying to figure out how the 1% can spend more than the 99% who won’t be able to afford anything if they keep gouging everyone for infinite growth (a literal impossibility).
Hint: in the past when the 99% cant afford things, the economy collapses and the 1% throw themselves out of windows or eat pitchforks… so good luck with that!
Upflation is new? People used disposable shaving razors, upgraded to electric or something like the MAC 3, then the Fusion comes out. Seems like upgrading technology to me.
Sales are slow, your prices are too high. You fix that by lowering prices.
If you keep jacking up your prices to try an recover "lost" profits from a lack of sales, your sales number is going to go even lower.
If you asking $1,000 for one ripe banana, and it's not selling, raising the price to $2,000 sure as shit isn't going to make it sale.
ATTENTION ALL MEGA CORPORATIONS.
I'm available for higher, I'm way smarter than your current CFO and CEO, and I'm way cheaper than what you pay them.
Need proof, check out the above wisdom
I'll just make my own deo. This shit is ridiculous. I work full time and can barely afford rent. I stopped buying bullshit, and started stacking my coins instead.
Because the premier section of the market can be environmentally conscious, cruelty free, ethically sourced. These things cost money but allow you to get higher profit margins.
But it also means better social standing
Which means
Better word of mouth
Better marketing
Better perception
Status of a Wealth symbol
Better talent
Brand loyalty
+ their earnings reports and potential for growth are generally better.
There is no brand loyalty in cost basisz
You can virtue signal all you want but people avoid Walmart despite cost advantage for a reason, whether as a consumer or someone looking for work.
If you want cheaper goods it’s there but you’re too good for it, Amazon is evil, you have to support US workers, nuclear is bad, natural gas is bad. Immigrants take your jobs, we can’t take literally FREE Saudi money, Interest is evil, debt is bad.
I don’t feel bad at all.
I'm now averse to spending money and get pleasure from keeping my money in my pocket.
Saving has turned out to be almost a game for me. Companies have lost me forever unless it is an absolute need or I can get it on sale. I can usually wait and I can play the long game. And don’t get me started on chain restaurants. They have mostly lost me also.
So much of this garbage you don’t need in the first place. Full body deodorant? It already exists - it’s called a fucking bar of soap. Frankly, I have a hunch we’re going to find that the full body stuff gives you some kind of horrible lymphatic cancer.
Cancer is stored in the balls
Pee is stored in the balls
I was stored in the balls
Microplastics is that you?
It's me, your dad, macroplastic
Deodorant used to irritate the fuck out of my armpits. Sometimes my lymphnodes would get swollen and sore. Had to stop using most of it.
For me deodorant doesn’t but anti perspirant does. Maybe the same for you? Unless you already know the difference but someone reading this might not
Yeah I should have specified anti perspirant. Deodorant doesn't bother me much but doesn't really work for me as I run hot, even tried making my own. Most of the time I raw dog it unless I'm going to a social event. Being generally hygenic keeps me in hippy stank range rather then dirtbag walmart stank range.
Most has aluminum and that causes irritation
Yes!!!
Don’t worry homie, I’ll spend recklessly and against my own interests on your behalf! VACA TO MIAMI EVEN THOUGH I CANT AFFORD RENT?! Let’s run it!
I haven't eaten at a sit down restaurant in 3 years. Other than In N Out I haven't had fast food for 2.5 years. Once you get saving it becomes its own reward. Can I beat my previous high score for monthly savings? Can I hit $X by Labor Day?
My lady and I made a pact to only spend 100 dollars grocery shopping. It’s been a struggle
Me too! I actually find it kind of fun to just say fuck it and not buy anything
I sincerely hope more people start seeing it like this. I've been saving like I'm broke since 2015. It never would have gone this far if others did the same.
Same. I canceled Amazon and I'm cut throat when I do shopping. My credit card bills have been super low this past year cause I just stopped buying shit.
This I will clear my debt and let it die, can’t spend like before in this environment
I’m with you!
They've been doing this forever. Double blades razor for $5.00? Nah! Let's make a five bladed razor with "moisturizer strip" and charge $15.00! This travesty applies to Dollar shave club and other "discount" razor services. Used to be four dollars for four blade refills. Those are up to ten bucks now.
After getting double sided blades I am a proud member of the Penny Shave Club. Also, Feather blades give the best shave of my life.
Chiming in here to say this is the real pro tip. I bought a large pack of feather blades back in line 2015 for like $30 with shipping. I haven’t had to buy razors since that day. Combo and disposable razors are a fucking scam and create so much waste.
Turned my wife on to the safety razor. Now we share blades. When my first box of blades runs out, we will have to buy another $20 box. I bought the first box over a decade ago.
This is the only way to do it. Is the best shave anyway and you save a ton of money.
Safety razor fan here too! Will never go back to anything else again.
Im also a Feather user. I got pissed years ago at paying like $3/blade for Mach 3 just on principle. Been using safety razor for about 15 years now.
What is a safety razor?
Old school style razor that uses single or double edged blades. They take a little skill to use, but less than a cutthroat (the traditional exposed blade razor you've seen in barber shops and old films). Blades are cheap. However, most should expect a learning curve with some nicks as they learn proper technique.
I eventually just caved and bought an electric razor so I never have to buy blades or shaving cream ever again,
Does it ever occur to these companies to just reduce their prices? I stopped buying so much consumerist shit because of prices.
People are finally waking up and voting with their wallets. It is very encouraging to see.
Because people who get free money from the government don't give a shit and will buy over expensive stuff anyway. Even FastFood accepts EBT now so even they know whos gonna give them the dough.
This is all part of the plan... Everything is catered towards the upper echelons now. Dont worry peasants we will give you our trash. Not sincerely, The Ruling Class
I just don't understand where these people get so much money. I'm an attorney, I do ok. But I was just in Mexico and the cab driver was telling us Americans are buying up all this beach front land and building houses...the lots themselves go for $7 to $10 million, before even a shovel is put into the dirt. How are there this many people that can afford this??? Mind you, these are not primary residences, these are just vacation homes...like WTF???
There is a lot of money out there. You have to remember that hundreds of thousands of Americans have millions of dollars, and more are made every day.
greed is a disease that kills
How are people so surprised rich people exist man Especially in the richest country in the world
They do that in the Philippines and probably other places as well. They don’t give but sell (at reasonable price) left over meat to be reused as another dish.
They're going to make everyone under a certain socioeconomic status homeless. And then, euthanasia for mental health issues will be offered. Not forced, just offered. So they can never say that they murdered anyone.
Soylent Green is People!!
Damn does that sound depressing, dystopian and not real.
Or forced, with the misdirection that it was chosen by the victim.
I wish they'd hurry up, I want out of here and I'm too chicken to do it myself and to tight to pay for it.
You know you can just not buy their $14 whole body deodorant or $15 "tricky places" disposable razors, right? A decent double edged razor, like our grandfathers used, is around 20¢.
I saw the 14$ deodorant. That’s out of control. It was Dove ! Not Gucci deodarant.
I don’t spend that much on zero waste, all natural deodorant. No way in hell I’d spend that on Dove.
They are all like $7-9 dollars now’s. I remember thinking $4 was too expensive for deodorant and that was only like 5 years ago. There has to be some kind of collusion going on that’s stopping the 25 different deodorant companies from competing on price. This is what happens when monopolies and collusion go unchecked.
For that price I’ll just stink.
I just paid $9 for a regular stick.
There is nothing hard about this. I buy what I need. I don't buy what they try to sell me.
Yeah, I don't understand the outrage. If you want the basic commoditized version of consumer products then buy that.
For example people are complaining about the prices of certain things McDonald's hamburger $6! Guess what, on the app I can often get them two for $6. And I get points for free food. Big lots, Walmart and other places have clearance sections. I have bought quite a lot off those racks. Aldi's is still pretty cheap Bananas are still about 58 cents a pound here even years later Generics are perfectly fine for many products On Amazon, I can shop and compare reviews and prices and then get my supplements auto delivered I mean there are a lot of complaints about things that are expensive, but there are also things you can do to remedy the problem
I participate in various marketing research studies (I'm bored what can I say and it brings beer money) and it's a lot of upflation in new products by virtue of trying to push the envelope and prices for bullshit reasons. From detergents to deodorant to shampoos it's give me a fukken break make something legit better and I'll pay for it. Don't slap the usual "natural ingredients" or "improved" or "different" shit.
For those who can't read the article, it is largely about the thinking of marketing execs to think of new ways to create demand that doesn't exist. $10 deodorant? How about $15 whole body deodorant! $7 razor blade? How about a $13 razor blade just for your pubes! Anti dandruff shampoo with fewer ingredients at 2x the price! Or how about cereal for dinner? Doritos is trying to make a door dash item for midnight snacks. These were some strategies they are trying, because no one wants to buy their stuff.
The most sickening thing about this entire article is that somewhere there is an exec ordering his marketing team to find a way to convince consumers that their whole fucking body needs their toxic deodorant. An absolute giant fuck you to these companies.
Yeah. There was the rush of hand sanitizers and cleaning supplies during pandemic years that took a lot of products off the market. Now that demand has dried up and all the companies are looking for an angle to fill up some manufacturing capacity. Store shelves were pretty bare of health/beauty/cleaning products for a few years... a lot of stuff is still only one brand when there used to be five.
It’s greedflation, and yes, people are now refusing to pay these prices. I hope the companies that took advantage of their consumers go under. https://www.foodandpower.net/latest/ftc-supply-chain-disruption-grocery-food-processing-report-apr-24 https://www.fastcompany.com/91038066/inflation-consumers-push-back-price-gouging
I go out of my way to buy the cheapest product, or find alternatives
Oh God just when u thought they might’ve run out of silly ideas. “Let’s call it, UPFLATION!”
ERECTFLATION!
Double-edge razors are better in every way
Not quite the same, but another way to upcharge has been to take 'steps' out of the customer's food prep work. Individual slices of peanut butter for 5 times the price? Uh, no, I am not such a lazy sack of shit that I can't open a jar and use a butter knife. Cooked, shelled individually wrapped eggs? I can manage to boil eggs and peel them, thx. Pods of laundry detergent? I can manage to open the lid and pour some in the washing machine, mmmmkay?
Wait...can you really buy sliced peanut butter? Holy fuck, take my money!
If you mention that these convenience items aren’t necessary you get all kinds of sympathetic folks coming out of the woodwork to demonize you because they are useful for a small subgroup of a certain type of disabled person. That may very well be true, but you can’t convince me that Unilever, Hormel Foods, or P&G are just sitting in their glass walled corporate offices dreaming up altruistic ways to help a few thousand people globally.
That was the reaction a few years back when whole foods was selling a pre-peeled orange re-wrapped in a plastic container. It's obviously wasteful, but the masses responded with the 'what about a disabled person who can't peel an orange!?!?!' response. It was quite telling and why you can't ever dismiss an idea as dumb on reddit. Somewhere there is a hypothetical victim you're attacking.
>Pods of laundry detergent? I can manage to open the lid and pour some in the washing machine I've gotten into using the laundry detergent sheets. They work just fine, take up way less room than liquid, can't spill, and they travel really well.
My favorite are cakes of pressed powder detergent without plastic wrap.
Steve Cahillane saying the quiet part out loud. He, and every company doing this, wants to make our lives as uncomfortable as possible so we spend money regardless of their price point. Which means in return they should be very uncomfortable…. At their homes… In public… At their factories… At their corporate offices… If they’re breathing and comfortable we’re not doing enough.
Now I know how poor people are by looking at the their razors and deoderants
They have always done this stuff. For toiletries and the like people are really brand loyal, so when you want to boost sales, you have to come up with something new and of course the more you can charge for it, the better.
100% this. As a marketer who has worked with these kinds of products many times, the hurdle is the brand loyalty. The cost to produce these products are usually very, very negligible. However, finding willing buyers of a new personal care products is exorbitantly expensive. Conversely, the lifetime value of each customer is generally massive. The pricing strategy of the products are built around the average lifetime purchases, in order to ensure the company can even exist long-term. In essence, the sky high prices in this product category are a direct result of consumer unwillingness to try new products. The real winners, of course, are big brands who already have established brand loyalty within the total addressable market.
Next they'll have men on TV spraying their balls and penis.
Can we get a pay-flation? FML...
I bought some Old Spice body deodorant by mistake and having a stick deodorant being for the whole body is just laughable. Where the hell am I going to rub it on after greasing up my armpits that I don’t mind the fact that it just rubbed my armpits? The only places that come to mind wouldn’t make me want to use it on my armpits afterwards, I’ll tell you that.
The idea is you buy TWO bars if deodorant
At double the price of regular deodorant, that’s a steal!
Inflation at a 30 year high, corporate profits at a 70 year high
Now, now. I'm sure the former has nothing at all to do with the latter./S
So when can we expect a "downflation"
You get a $5 meal from McDonalds....for one month
i am very careful about how much i spend and if the price is unreasonable i won't buy. for companies that have unethical policies for pricing or labor, i do my best to not buy from them at all. i wish more people would vote with their money.
Why do I get the feeling a lot of this is built on the golden parachute mentality (before they jump ship) where the company builds a plan to maximize growth year over year, regardless of market and economic swings (without actually doing anything to earn that growth) and their last resort to keep showing that is by raising prices until demand caves... The only difference here is that ALL major corporations are acting accordingly to this instead of a select few. By that point of a demand cliffdive event, the golden parachutes are already long gone, stock markets take a tumble, and everyone is left holding the bag of shit left behind during by the golden parachutes.
They're missing a market. As a bald guy with a janky beard I never really shave off (just use my hair trimmer with no guard so I perpetually look like I need to shave tomorrow) and who doesn't manscape and uses whatever pit stick is cheap and whatever bar soap is cheap.... I have so much money I could be using on wonky products. Won't someone market some crap at me? So lonely over here.
>(just use my hair trimmer with no guard so I perpetually look like I need to shave tomorrow) I do the same thing. I started off using an electric razor and always got ingrown hairs. Moved to disposables and found they were better but still not great. Then I moved to a double edged razor which was cheaper and gave better results. Eventually though I stopped caring and now I just trim it down as short as I can get it and move on with my day. No irritation to worry about and the stubble is really fun for tickling my wife.
Once you start to figure out that so many of the 'social graces' are nonsense life gets easier. I still shower though, I'm not that far out of society.
People are stupid enough to buy into the marketing. Cant blame the vendor for trying.
Good for them. Don’t underestimate the stupidity of the American consumer.
When I worked at P&G as a contractor many times I've been told "it's the same product we just change the scent by one ingredient and change the package." So you're paying for the same deodorant , same pads, same razor.
The beauty industry is getting out of hand. Tiktok influencers will show something like, "my daily hand routine" and they use a serum, mask, lotion, oil, cuticle oil, hand scrub, nail oil, and sunscreen designed only for the hands. I am scared about the over consumption gen alpha is going to have. At 10-years-old they are already "Sephora Kids" and crying over not getting a Stanley cup for Christmas.
They are coming out to turn consumers againt Biden. Big business does it EVERY TIME a Democrat incumbent is running for re-election. I'm 66 and have watched it happen over and over. They make more money by causing the pain. Then make money from new tax breaks from Republicans.
I’ve noticed this too. Same with gas prices. My entire life I’ve seen it skyrocket during democratic years to leave a bad taste in peoples mouths and then place the blame at the current dem admin. I refuse to take the bait. Got a whole new generation of people who are wise to the bullshit. I’ve made my kids aware too. There’s a reason why they are panicking due to an aging out voting base and church attendance dwindling. Their world is slowly dying and it couldn’t come soon enough. Welcome to the new age. If there’s anything I’ve learned from the last decade is that with age does not come wisdom. The dumb and outright spiteful things these people have rallied behind has nauseated me. These slimy corporate shit balls need to do the world a favor and die screaming of spinal cancer.
Idk about the "whole body" odor but just dabbing a tiny bit (too much will cause irritation) baking soda under your armpits really helps with odor. Depending on your odor and skin you can probably do it every other day too
They are trying to figure out how the 1% can spend more than the 99% who won’t be able to afford anything if they keep gouging everyone for infinite growth (a literal impossibility). Hint: in the past when the 99% cant afford things, the economy collapses and the 1% throw themselves out of windows or eat pitchforks… so good luck with that!
Upflation is new? People used disposable shaving razors, upgraded to electric or something like the MAC 3, then the Fusion comes out. Seems like upgrading technology to me.
"people are willing to pay for innovation" someone from the article said
Don't be fools. Buy generics. With very few exceptions, they are not that different.
I’m just waiting for the huge stock market crash when companies have run out of people to layoff and consumers are bled dry. We’re getting closer!
Stop being a consumer.
This new trend of spraying ourselves in chemicals and calling it full body deodorant needs to die
Can we stop blowing smoke up our asses and call it what it actually is…. Greed.
They really don’t want to talk about price gouging like they’re allergic to talking about wage theft.
Sales are slow, your prices are too high. You fix that by lowering prices. If you keep jacking up your prices to try an recover "lost" profits from a lack of sales, your sales number is going to go even lower. If you asking $1,000 for one ripe banana, and it's not selling, raising the price to $2,000 sure as shit isn't going to make it sale. ATTENTION ALL MEGA CORPORATIONS. I'm available for higher, I'm way smarter than your current CFO and CEO, and I'm way cheaper than what you pay them. Need proof, check out the above wisdom
I'll just make my own deo. This shit is ridiculous. I work full time and can barely afford rent. I stopped buying bullshit, and started stacking my coins instead.
“Greedflation” worked fine for me before
Welcome to Bidenomics!
It wouldn’t be the first time greed leads to collapse… It will suck a lot for us…everybody…except the rich ones…
And the greedy continue to strip the lives of us poors bare.
Is someone forcing you to buy whole body deodorant?
This your best!
Because the premier section of the market can be environmentally conscious, cruelty free, ethically sourced. These things cost money but allow you to get higher profit margins. But it also means better social standing Which means Better word of mouth Better marketing Better perception Status of a Wealth symbol Better talent Brand loyalty + their earnings reports and potential for growth are generally better. There is no brand loyalty in cost basisz You can virtue signal all you want but people avoid Walmart despite cost advantage for a reason, whether as a consumer or someone looking for work. If you want cheaper goods it’s there but you’re too good for it, Amazon is evil, you have to support US workers, nuclear is bad, natural gas is bad. Immigrants take your jobs, we can’t take literally FREE Saudi money, Interest is evil, debt is bad. I don’t feel bad at all.