Posted by js305 on August 22, 2015 at 06:47:16 from (70.195.192.185):
In Reply to: Inflation? posted by Geo-TH,In on August 22, 2015 at 04:30:05:
I spent most of my early adult life working for a grocery chain locally. This is the tip of the iceberg. IF you can find one, take a look at a roll of toilet paper from, say 1960, and compare that. You might notice it's almost an inch narrower. Kinda loose in the antique holder in the bathroom now. Most everything sold by the ounce has downsized. Many 16 oz items are now 12 or 13, maintaining the same pricing. Have you noticed that the cereal boxes, chips, and other things like that will state on the package that some "settling" may occur but the contents are all there. Instead of putting it in a package that it will fit in, they keep the larger one to take up more sales space and draw attention to the perceived larger value.
Also, I have noticed a trend that disturbs me. Have you ever bought a new product that you liked, only to watch the quality deteriorate as time goes by? Get the public buying it, they won't notice it's not quite as tasty later, or it doesn't have quite as many "___" as it did. You fill in the blank there. There are think tanks operating 24/7 trying to find ways to separate us from our money. I know it's the capitalist way, and it doesn't always work out for these guys, but with the essentials (personal items, etc.) that we need every day it's irritating to see it.
One thing that seems to remain pretty constant. In 1960, as a sacker at the store, I had to work about 30 minutes to buy a gallon of gas for my car, that got maybe 10mpg. The kid working at the same position (for the same company) now has to work maybe 10 minutes to buy a gallon of gas for his/her car that might get 30mpg. Is that good or bad? Or is it just a perception of something different? We do have it better in many ways, but life was not complicated in the same ways as it is now. I sure do like AC and other creature comforts we didn't have as I grew up. We live longer and healthier for the most part.
I'm still glad to be here, might even run for president someday. I heard it's open for just about anyone now.
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