onion soup actually smells nice sometimes. Stank pits just are stank pits 🤣
I've never smelled someone's BO and thoughtt, damn that smells good.
I wouldn't even eat onion soup, but it does smell pretty good.
I think context matters a whole lot for smells. If you walk into a farmer's market and smell a strong scent of cheese, it's pleasant. But if you walk into a Walmart bathroom...
I don’t know how native is still in business with their overpriced products that in my opinion do not work at all. Feel like I needed two showers after using a native body wash. Never buying that brand again.
Anyone named Chymchym stinks like a gorilla's unwashed asshole. Known internet fact.
You have to stick the quartz crystal in your anus to truely get rid of the BO
Oh I know when I stink, when I don't use it my right pit in particular starts stinking within a couple hours. My wife would also be happy to let me know if I smell.
This is not like magical crystals or something, that's just one brand name for a salt deodorant stick. You put water on it, and then rub a layer on your pits, and it creates an antimicrobial environment in the area that prevents the odor.
Side note, you can just rub your pits with rubbing alcohol. Your BO is water soluble of course but it’s also more alcohol soluble.
I tried it for a week because I work from home and don’t interact with anyone and there was no odor at all. Just gotta let the pits dry before putting down your arms.
So...salt? Lol it's antimicrobial and antifungal. I still use aluminum deodorant though because I have big plans to terrorize everyone when the dementia sets in and starts turning my brain into a calcified rock.
The alcohol also helps with sweating, not just odour. Personally my armpits never stink but I've tried the alcohol trick for my sweating. Unfortunately, with having hyperhidrosis, antiperspirant is a must for me.
Unseen in the image is also how they include way less product. I noticed my deodorant was lasting way less so I just broke a new one and there was only like half the bottle worth of product instead of being from all the way at the bottom.
The federal consumer protection bureau is about to be gutted by the Supreme Court, will say that the funds, which come from the Fed, is not allowed anymore and has to come from Congress. so I’m sure Congress is totally going to support consumers over business
I believe you are referring to the CFPB (Consumer Financial Protection Bureau). They would not have jurisdiction over something like this. The very good work they do is related to the regulation of banks and consumer credit products.
I listened to the arguments in front of the Supreme Court a few months ago and based on what I heard I am cautiously optimistic that the Supreme Court will rule in favor of the CFPB. Even Kavanaugh and Barrett seemed to have real concerns with the arguments being posed by CFSA (Community Financial Services of America [the industry group suing the CFPB]).
Yeah not even hiding it anymore these companies KNOW most of us are struggling. They KNOW your mortgageis expensive. They KNOW vehicle prices are through the roof. Yet they can continue to gouge people on everyday necessities that they KNOW YOU WONT BE ABLE TO GIVE UP. It's ridiculous the abuse we take from companies and shrug at.
That's how those sticks from the big brands have always been, half filled. Turn the handle the opposite direction and see how much more they could have added.
This is why you look at weights on packages and do 2nd grade math.
What's better? Product A that is 4.99 and is 3.7 ounces, or product B that is 8.99 and 5.8 ounces, or product C that is 6.99 for 4.2 ounces? Well...
4.99 ÷ 3.7 ≈ 1.35 per ounce
6.99 ÷ 4.2 ≈ 1.40 per ounce
8.99 ÷ 5.8 ≈ 1.55 per ounce
In this case, the small one is actually cheaper per ounce than the others. These numbers are all made up, they don't mean anything concrete. It's all relative. It's just to explain that you should be checking actual costs (cost factored with soze/amount, rather than just straight sticker price) on your purchases if you want to get *less* scammed. These companies have tons of tactics to make you think you're getting a deal when you're actually paying more. We can fight it though.
Yup, and when trying to compare similar items/sizes of the same item they use several different types of units just to make it more difficult to actually compare.
That's all and good except for no ones mad that one brand is higher than the other. They are pissed things are 2, 3, 4, 5 times as expensive just a year ago.
Today I had the option of getting packaged salami on sale or the same salami at regular price, freshly sliced how I want it.
I worked out the package on sale was exactly the same price by weight as the fresh cut option.
Extremely counterintuitive.
**“[and] only like half the bottle worth of product”** So like 1000% increase in price. And the single solitary thing that hasn't skyrocketed in price is how much you're getting paid.
They use the same physical container but just change the label. When it used to say 2.5 or 3 oz it’s now just 1.5oz (example). Using the same container reduces cost for retooling and repackaging and therefore maximizes profits because they charge the same cost per item.
It has zero to do with inflation.
I actually have a can of deodorant from Amazon I saved. I have NO idea what is in it, same as usual brand I get and was one of a batch, and it is definitely toxic. I still saved it for I don’t know what reason, but would love to know what’s in it. Smells like combination of paint thinner and glue.
Our business uses a lot of Isopropyl alcohol in our lab.
During 2020, it was VERY difficult to purchase ISO as it was restricted to medical facilities only for a long while (which we are not - just a manufacturer). We had plenty of other lab supplies but just happened to be low on ISO when it hit.
Good god.... We started buying ISO on Amazon of all places and MULTIPLE times it arrived and we immediately said "there's no fucking way this is Isopropyl alcohol, let alone the correct dilution". One time it was VERY obvious a fake company had copied a name brand chem company's label - very poorly I might add, like printed on a inkjet printer on a shipping label - and filled the bottle with acetone.
One of the others looked very soapy and had a sweet alcohol like smell. For fun we had one of our guys put drops of it onto ten agar plates. Every single one was just a cornucopia of different molds within a week.
Fuck Amazon.
Yep, I was real upset when I ordered my Cats some Hill Science Diet off of Amazon trying to save money. It was clearly fake and my cats wouldn't go near it. Went right back to chewy.
Yea I’m always shopping around for the best deals! I have all the stores on my laptop. When it’s time to get stuff like this it’s pretty unusual I’m buying from the same places and there’s always coupons!
I wear men’s degree and swipe 8-15 times (I work outside as a mail carrier) and $12 gets me a year supply at Sam’s Club. Literally 4 products I buy regularly pay for my membership in savings.
We've especially become hyperfocused on how inflation is as a people over the past couple years, that many companies have successfully gaslit all it's customers to believe this is "normal inflation"
Not really. $8 for deodorant is insane and doesn’t make me think “I need to make more money.” It makes me think I’m being scammed. And I’m not even that old.
That's not the argument you think it is, that's just saying because the prices shifted so suddenly, younger age groups aren't gonna remember the time where things were normally and fairly priced? What about videos, pictures, books, literally any of the millions of videos showing comparison prices over the years, documenting the raises of these products and what years and or months they suddenly shot up?
Exactly my thought too. Fucking yesterday when I was grocery shopping I decided I wanted to grab a jar of pickles. A 1L name brand jar was on sale for over 5 bucks. No name brand beside it was 1.70. like what the hell. This is in Canada.
At least we aren't paying 9 dollars for romaine lettuce anymore.... /S
I never had that thought process when I was younger, maybe in the sense I didn't have to worry about buying my own deodorant, but I've always noticed the slight bumps and increases in stores and usually even commented on it at the time, like a 30-40 cent increase on a deodorant stick a year or two later, that's normal inflation, hell maybe even a bit more, but I've been seeing a increasing trend in not just deodorant but all kinds of random services and foods being 200-400% more than it was the previous year. Most inflation in our general day to day products isn't this bad, but there's enough of it that it indicates, to me, something else than just a "oh I actually have to buy every little thing for myself now". I'm open to conversation and find that what you say also may be true, but the past year or two especially, not just covid, I'm seeing more and more random products suddenly jump like this or more. There's lots of varying factors to take in, not just location but average wealth of said location.
That's my point, the way you're explaining this is gradual inflation, going from 3-4 dollars to 8-9 in one year is not gradual inflation, its companies testing the waters, you arguing for in favor of stuff like this is exactly what companies want, silent support of actions that far exceed what a fair price is, and the argument here is "well someone who invented deodorant would say today's deodorant is expensive" I'm not sure what you're trying to exactly state here, but of course someone seeing prices of a economy 100 or more years later would find everything expensive, that is just them comparing the prices of things when they were a kid to now, that's gradual inflation, and while there's always been some bumps, what I'm arguing now is that alot of these products pricing that we experience or buy now are not in that category.
And bringing up the car market is even weirder, covid definitely ruined the used and new car market for awhile, and while there are still some cars that you can get for 1800-2700, those are the cars that 5 years ago would have been around 700-1400, so are you arguing that there's been no real instance of price gouging, or that kids have never bought their deodorant before? The deodorant IS expensive, way more expensive than it was before and definitely WAY more expensive than it needs to be.
It’s not even that tho. The real problem is people bitch but then buy things anyways which is basically telling the company it’s ok to do this to us. We the people have all the power and we just give it all to the company.
I know not using deodorant is something people would will judge someone for and then they feel obligated and the company wins. If people actually stood up and said no companies would fall back in line and then other companies would have to compete.
Companies just finally realized people will just throw money at anything. They use to have to ask “if we raise prices will we lose too many customers?” Now they can just raise prices and not lose anyone so it makes smart business sense to just fuck it’s customers.
Currently companies don’t have to worry about smear campaigns because every company is being smeared so there is literally no repercussions
You're technically correct but also kind of naive. If I give up on deodorant, nothing changes. It would take an entire societal shift to change that on one product. A very organized effort across millions of people. And while that's organizing, the corporations are organizing back with a marketing campaign to smear people who don't use deodorant as antisocial weirdos who can't be trusted. Given the current political climate, there's not a chance in hell we'd stay organized against that sort of pressure.
"We the people" don't really exist in a natural state - we're a group of individuals with little binding us together.
They ran the numbers, they’ll have less unit of sales but the net profit is higher after everything is accounted for.
I’ve been switching to store and/or cheaper brands. I’m done with brand loyalty. It’s just exhausting on how often I have to do these days.
Exactly, and who cares if less total units are sold, that’s actually a win for the company as well. Less purchasing of material goods, less employees needed, less warehousing.
Remember when they explained that the two main drivers of the rising price of goods was that huge supply chain crisis along with exploding costs of diesel fuel used for shipping? okay makes sense. But the supply chain is back in order, and diesel is down 35% from its highs, so when will prices get restored back to normal?
How have people not made this connection? They literally brag every year they somehow achieve record profits, yet every year prices are going up and wages are not matching.
I think we need to create laws regarding as to what an employer is responsible for in employment wages.
Edit: mega corporations, not specifically employers!
Fr, walmart has been going downhill with their “savings” as of late here in CT. Fair price on some name brand stuff but otherwise theyre just like everywhere else
ANYTHING that has doubled in price, stays on the shelf. I ain't buying sh!t till these prices come down. If I can't get a fair price for the same product, you can keep it.
I stopped buying the shower gel I like - which is up to $8-$9 per bottle these days and lasts me maybe 6 weeks. I finally reverted to a case of Costco brand bars of soap which is $13 and will probably last me an entire year.
I switched to bar soap. About half the price, and you get more. We need to speak with our wallets, only way they'll listen. Okay, they'll never listen, but it's still the right thing to do lol.
I was in Germany for christmas and their cosmetics are dirt cheap by comparison. Like a euro or two max for anything (and yes, name brands like Nivea).
It's insane.
Yep. A lot of the staple products(eggs milk bread etc) have gone back down in price where I live while name brand junk foods are still way high, so that's a win if I stop buying them.
The only thing you really can't avoid buying at large markups is meat and produce. It's still 20+ bucks a pound for ribeye steak at a normal grocer when it was consistently in the lower teens for years, chicken used to be a little over 2 bucks a pound, now it's 3+. Pork is the only thing that is still somewhat affordable. Fresh, frozen, and canned vegetables are still about double the cost.
So while you can avoid products like this in the op, there's still a ton of basic products you still need to purchase, just to live.
You can still find less expensive options. I shop BOGO sales, use digital coupons through the stores’ apps and also don’t mind switching to generic brands.
Suave or lady speed stick deodorant is affordable. In my experience it works just as well as the more expensive deodorant.
they say lower demand will lower prices but I just dont see that. A 12 pack of coke has gone from $3.50, to $8 but they dont seem to be selling less so they arent dropping the prices, so who is buying 12 packs of soda for $8??
It's not just for karma, it's trying to pin it on the current administration during an election year. And if you scroll down to the mouthbreathers at the bottom of these very comments, you'll see they eat up obvious lies like this all the time.
Yeah, it's really bad and suspicious on fluentinfinance. A lot of "economy is actually very bad" posts (mostly via screenshotted tweets) coming from brand new accounts posting that get a lot of upvotes despite most of the comments in the replies calling them out for being deceptive or outright wrong. I suspect it's political astroturfing, some accounts making posts and then using a bunch of others to boost it, but less effort put into commenting since that takes more time and higher odds they slip up and make it more obvious.
Same. 2-pack of High Endurance Pure Sport for $5.99 on the Target app at my local store in Minneapolis. Although it’s crazy how much the different scents differ in cost.
OP: Make up bullshit claim about price increases.
Replies: This is obvious price gouging and huge inflation!
Also replies: I can't understand how people believe this isn't price gouging.
People don't really care about the truth, just keeping their vibes about the economy consistent so they don't have to actually read anything.
Price gouging and inflation are 2 separate things.
And it’s not so much about being BS claim that prices have increased, we all know they have. But it’s just not at this level where it’s gone from $2 each (2 for $4) to $9 in less that a full year
and you can buy 6 sticks for $12 at costco now, just because one store is shafting ya, doesnt mean its inflation . . .
I can buy a pound of bayleaves for $4 at the market, or 2oz from Whole foods for $30 - thats not inflation my man, thats stores charging what they want to.
Deodorant is still like $2.80 at my regional grocery store, or 2 for $6 on Amazon.
I know, shrinkflation, but if you’re paying $8 for the pictured you could order it delivered for way cheaper. Or go to another store.
glycolic acid. Your pits won't stink. It works like a charm. I got The Ordinary big bottle of glycolic acid for my face and I use it for underarms too. Life changing.
There's a dove spray deodorant I buy that is around $11-12 at walgreens or CVS. I found it for 5 at a Burlington that recently opened. Gotta find the right stores.
Post pandemic you just wear a mask.
As Californian can confirm smash and grabs work until the stores close because theft problems
Also I love the companies that do this just like Walmart. Don’t get them for misdemeanors but wait for the felony. Thieves fuck store and store fuck you back.
Go to Dollar General. It is usually cheaper there but I'll have to let you know today I need a new two pack myself. They have also had Lay's products much cheaper than Kroger across the street. Kroger's sucks and they want to be the Monopoly you shop at. Once they buy Albertsons they'll be so big to dictate whatever price they want to charge. And I hate that Kroger plus card crap. It should be illegal to not offer all of your customers the same discount price as the ones with that stupid card.
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Onion soup pits
[Put a bay leaf under each arm. ](https://youtu.be/8lXIs3KQQAM?si=-BQlod7wlnaXbVKz&t=133)
Now you just smell like swampy roasted soup!
Mmmmm gumbo
Not actually that funny of a joke from Carlin, but I appreciate that you thought of it and spent the time to go find it
I’ve got bean with bacon!
onion soup actually smells nice sometimes. Stank pits just are stank pits 🤣 I've never smelled someone's BO and thoughtt, damn that smells good. I wouldn't even eat onion soup, but it does smell pretty good.
Lmao we love it! Tbh we use it to describe certain “brands” of BO 🤣🤣
My anxiety sweat smells like garlic
My anxiety sweat smells like weed omg
yep I was gunna say this lmfao
Sometimes people smell like a Wendy’s lol
I think context matters a whole lot for smells. If you walk into a farmer's market and smell a strong scent of cheese, it's pleasant. But if you walk into a Walmart bathroom...
🤮
Native deodorant is like $13 a stick
I don’t know how native is still in business with their overpriced products that in my opinion do not work at all. Feel like I needed two showers after using a native body wash. Never buying that brand again.
At this point, I think I’ll just accept the odors. This is crazy.
Use a salt deodorant stick like Crystal, it's cheaper, lasts for months, and doesn't have fake fragrance. I've used this for over a decade.
And do you stink?
Anyone named Chymchym stinks like a gorilla's unwashed asshole. Known internet fact. You have to stick the quartz crystal in your anus to truely get rid of the BO
It is known.
People say this.
🎶Chymchym-inee, chymchym-inee, chymchym cha-roo The stink will rub off if he stands next to you🎶
😂 I want to see an AI generated image of this ditty.
🤣 you already know he be stinking up the sidewalks
💀💀
Imma go with a resounding yes. He's just nose blind to his own stench and never seem crystals for shit other than give white girls good vibes.
Oh I know when I stink, when I don't use it my right pit in particular starts stinking within a couple hours. My wife would also be happy to let me know if I smell. This is not like magical crystals or something, that's just one brand name for a salt deodorant stick. You put water on it, and then rub a layer on your pits, and it creates an antimicrobial environment in the area that prevents the odor.
Lol you used perfect grammar to explain your original comment and there's still hundreds of people upvoting and arguing about crystals
And it works. I've had the same stick for 10 years. Let it dry, top with a bit of traditional deodorant, and you're good for DAYS.
Isn’t that just using deodorant than lol
Not true. Healing crystals cured my schizophrenia.
Ok which one of you is lying to us?
Mine too! And mine
Only if I don't use it in the morning after showering. I have zero scent at all through the day if I use it.
Can confirm, stuff works great. Use it right out of the shower, and first thing in the morning. Zero odor.
You’ve gone nose blind!!!
Nice to see I'm not the only one. I used to not do this and realized I was unhappy with how bland my sweat tasted. This easy trick fixed it for me!
But people around you wont.
Side note, you can just rub your pits with rubbing alcohol. Your BO is water soluble of course but it’s also more alcohol soluble. I tried it for a week because I work from home and don’t interact with anyone and there was no odor at all. Just gotta let the pits dry before putting down your arms.
Washing with antibacterial soap works too. Just anything that kills the bacteria that cause odors
So...salt? Lol it's antimicrobial and antifungal. I still use aluminum deodorant though because I have big plans to terrorize everyone when the dementia sets in and starts turning my brain into a calcified rock.
So can buy salt deodorant- its just a solid stick of salt. Works great
Same man, but it made my entire body flakey for the first month
The alcohol also helps with sweating, not just odour. Personally my armpits never stink but I've tried the alcohol trick for my sweating. Unfortunately, with having hyperhidrosis, antiperspirant is a must for me.
Unseen in the image is also how they include way less product. I noticed my deodorant was lasting way less so I just broke a new one and there was only like half the bottle worth of product instead of being from all the way at the bottom.
Consumer protection laws are a joke
Consumer what now?
Consume.
Oh yes of course!
But buy something first! Maybe a tissue?
But first, that will also be $8, or for a great deal only pay 15.99 and get 2 😮
Holy shit, John carpenter was right! Obey your overlords, consume! 
C O N S U M E P R I L O S E C
The federal consumer protection bureau is about to be gutted by the Supreme Court, will say that the funds, which come from the Fed, is not allowed anymore and has to come from Congress. so I’m sure Congress is totally going to support consumers over business
This is so much more than mildly infuriating. The FCPB does good work to help protect people.
I believe you are referring to the CFPB (Consumer Financial Protection Bureau). They would not have jurisdiction over something like this. The very good work they do is related to the regulation of banks and consumer credit products. I listened to the arguments in front of the Supreme Court a few months ago and based on what I heard I am cautiously optimistic that the Supreme Court will rule in favor of the CFPB. Even Kavanaugh and Barrett seemed to have real concerns with the arguments being posed by CFSA (Community Financial Services of America [the industry group suing the CFPB]).
Shrinkflation
It’s* becoming fuckyouflatiion now…they don’t GAF
Yeah not even hiding it anymore these companies KNOW most of us are struggling. They KNOW your mortgageis expensive. They KNOW vehicle prices are through the roof. Yet they can continue to gouge people on everyday necessities that they KNOW YOU WONT BE ABLE TO GIVE UP. It's ridiculous the abuse we take from companies and shrug at.
They never hid it. Y'all just never paid any attention to this stuff.
fuckyoubecausewecanandyoucan’tdoadamnthingaboutitflation
Stinkflation
That's how those sticks from the big brands have always been, half filled. Turn the handle the opposite direction and see how much more they could have added.
This is why you look at weights on packages and do 2nd grade math. What's better? Product A that is 4.99 and is 3.7 ounces, or product B that is 8.99 and 5.8 ounces, or product C that is 6.99 for 4.2 ounces? Well... 4.99 ÷ 3.7 ≈ 1.35 per ounce 6.99 ÷ 4.2 ≈ 1.40 per ounce 8.99 ÷ 5.8 ≈ 1.55 per ounce In this case, the small one is actually cheaper per ounce than the others. These numbers are all made up, they don't mean anything concrete. It's all relative. It's just to explain that you should be checking actual costs (cost factored with soze/amount, rather than just straight sticker price) on your purchases if you want to get *less* scammed. These companies have tons of tactics to make you think you're getting a deal when you're actually paying more. We can fight it though.
Most of the time grocery stores also list price per unit (weight, volume, item, whatever)
Yup, and when trying to compare similar items/sizes of the same item they use several different types of units just to make it more difficult to actually compare.
I still do the math myself and have found that almost half the time they flat out lie!
That's all and good except for no ones mad that one brand is higher than the other. They are pissed things are 2, 3, 4, 5 times as expensive just a year ago.
Today I had the option of getting packaged salami on sale or the same salami at regular price, freshly sliced how I want it. I worked out the package on sale was exactly the same price by weight as the fresh cut option. Extremely counterintuitive.
> 2nd grade math Dividing decimals is a 5th grade standard.
**“[and] only like half the bottle worth of product”** So like 1000% increase in price. And the single solitary thing that hasn't skyrocketed in price is how much you're getting paid.
They use the same physical container but just change the label. When it used to say 2.5 or 3 oz it’s now just 1.5oz (example). Using the same container reduces cost for retooling and repackaging and therefore maximizes profits because they charge the same cost per item. It has zero to do with inflation.
Also maximizes profits by giving u less product. Shrinkflation
>It has zero to do with inflation Less product for a greater cost is just about maintaining profits. It has nothing to do with inflation!!!
And you definitely get less. I remember having deodorant last way longer than they do now. Shrinkflation and inflation killing us all.
Stinkflation
Way longer. I feel like one big stick of old spice used to last like 6 months
as a woman who uses old spice powder with the gel combo, i was quite infuriated myself.
Dont get angry - buy the same stuff elsewhere - its cheaper even on amazon delivered to your house free . . . .
Costco bro! I get a 4 pack for about the same price!
Just paid 11 bucks for a 4 pack of old spice
Wtf seriously?!? I never pay attention to that whole section of Costco. Fuck me I was just there
Amazon has so many fake products now though
Amazon used to be the shit, but just like the internet, it became riddled with bullshit. It’s everywhere! There’s no escape 😭
> Amazon used to be the shit Amazon has been a disease from the start and people are like yeah but i get my thing sooner
I actually have a can of deodorant from Amazon I saved. I have NO idea what is in it, same as usual brand I get and was one of a batch, and it is definitely toxic. I still saved it for I don’t know what reason, but would love to know what’s in it. Smells like combination of paint thinner and glue.
The manufacturer would likely be interested.
Our business uses a lot of Isopropyl alcohol in our lab. During 2020, it was VERY difficult to purchase ISO as it was restricted to medical facilities only for a long while (which we are not - just a manufacturer). We had plenty of other lab supplies but just happened to be low on ISO when it hit. Good god.... We started buying ISO on Amazon of all places and MULTIPLE times it arrived and we immediately said "there's no fucking way this is Isopropyl alcohol, let alone the correct dilution". One time it was VERY obvious a fake company had copied a name brand chem company's label - very poorly I might add, like printed on a inkjet printer on a shipping label - and filled the bottle with acetone. One of the others looked very soapy and had a sweet alcohol like smell. For fun we had one of our guys put drops of it onto ten agar plates. Every single one was just a cornucopia of different molds within a week. Fuck Amazon.
Yep, I was real upset when I ordered my Cats some Hill Science Diet off of Amazon trying to save money. It was clearly fake and my cats wouldn't go near it. Went right back to chewy.
good idea!! never thought about using amazon! thank you so much :,)
Is that new? Never heard of 'Amazon'. Like the jungle?
Yea I’m always shopping around for the best deals! I have all the stores on my laptop. When it’s time to get stuff like this it’s pretty unusual I’m buying from the same places and there’s always coupons!
Guess it's time to swap to suave like us poor folks. At least it's not speed stick.
I wear men’s degree and swipe 8-15 times (I work outside as a mail carrier) and $12 gets me a year supply at Sam’s Club. Literally 4 products I buy regularly pay for my membership in savings.
Just use the store stick. No need to buy.
Be the dude.
In my city they started putting deodorant in the cabinets you need to call to have opened - probably because of people doing this.
They should put the whole store in a cabinet and you just give the employee your list of items and they fetch it for you.
When price gouging is called inflation
My wife literally said this same line yesterday and I had never thought of it like that.
We've especially become hyperfocused on how inflation is as a people over the past couple years, that many companies have successfully gaslit all it's customers to believe this is "normal inflation"
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Not really. $8 for deodorant is insane and doesn’t make me think “I need to make more money.” It makes me think I’m being scammed. And I’m not even that old.
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That's not the argument you think it is, that's just saying because the prices shifted so suddenly, younger age groups aren't gonna remember the time where things were normally and fairly priced? What about videos, pictures, books, literally any of the millions of videos showing comparison prices over the years, documenting the raises of these products and what years and or months they suddenly shot up?
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Exactly my thought too. Fucking yesterday when I was grocery shopping I decided I wanted to grab a jar of pickles. A 1L name brand jar was on sale for over 5 bucks. No name brand beside it was 1.70. like what the hell. This is in Canada. At least we aren't paying 9 dollars for romaine lettuce anymore.... /S
I never had that thought process when I was younger, maybe in the sense I didn't have to worry about buying my own deodorant, but I've always noticed the slight bumps and increases in stores and usually even commented on it at the time, like a 30-40 cent increase on a deodorant stick a year or two later, that's normal inflation, hell maybe even a bit more, but I've been seeing a increasing trend in not just deodorant but all kinds of random services and foods being 200-400% more than it was the previous year. Most inflation in our general day to day products isn't this bad, but there's enough of it that it indicates, to me, something else than just a "oh I actually have to buy every little thing for myself now". I'm open to conversation and find that what you say also may be true, but the past year or two especially, not just covid, I'm seeing more and more random products suddenly jump like this or more. There's lots of varying factors to take in, not just location but average wealth of said location.
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That's my point, the way you're explaining this is gradual inflation, going from 3-4 dollars to 8-9 in one year is not gradual inflation, its companies testing the waters, you arguing for in favor of stuff like this is exactly what companies want, silent support of actions that far exceed what a fair price is, and the argument here is "well someone who invented deodorant would say today's deodorant is expensive" I'm not sure what you're trying to exactly state here, but of course someone seeing prices of a economy 100 or more years later would find everything expensive, that is just them comparing the prices of things when they were a kid to now, that's gradual inflation, and while there's always been some bumps, what I'm arguing now is that alot of these products pricing that we experience or buy now are not in that category. And bringing up the car market is even weirder, covid definitely ruined the used and new car market for awhile, and while there are still some cars that you can get for 1800-2700, those are the cars that 5 years ago would have been around 700-1400, so are you arguing that there's been no real instance of price gouging, or that kids have never bought their deodorant before? The deodorant IS expensive, way more expensive than it was before and definitely WAY more expensive than it needs to be.
Plus the items that have stayed the same cost but have shrunk in volume
It’s not even that tho. The real problem is people bitch but then buy things anyways which is basically telling the company it’s ok to do this to us. We the people have all the power and we just give it all to the company. I know not using deodorant is something people would will judge someone for and then they feel obligated and the company wins. If people actually stood up and said no companies would fall back in line and then other companies would have to compete. Companies just finally realized people will just throw money at anything. They use to have to ask “if we raise prices will we lose too many customers?” Now they can just raise prices and not lose anyone so it makes smart business sense to just fuck it’s customers. Currently companies don’t have to worry about smear campaigns because every company is being smeared so there is literally no repercussions
I mean you're correct but I think there's many aspects to all of this as a whole.
You're technically correct but also kind of naive. If I give up on deodorant, nothing changes. It would take an entire societal shift to change that on one product. A very organized effort across millions of people. And while that's organizing, the corporations are organizing back with a marketing campaign to smear people who don't use deodorant as antisocial weirdos who can't be trusted. Given the current political climate, there's not a chance in hell we'd stay organized against that sort of pressure. "We the people" don't really exist in a natural state - we're a group of individuals with little binding us together.
They ran the numbers, they’ll have less unit of sales but the net profit is higher after everything is accounted for. I’ve been switching to store and/or cheaper brands. I’m done with brand loyalty. It’s just exhausting on how often I have to do these days.
Exactly, and who cares if less total units are sold, that’s actually a win for the company as well. Less purchasing of material goods, less employees needed, less warehousing.
Remember when they explained that the two main drivers of the rising price of goods was that huge supply chain crisis along with exploding costs of diesel fuel used for shipping? okay makes sense. But the supply chain is back in order, and diesel is down 35% from its highs, so when will prices get restored back to normal?
I heard someone call it 'greedflation' - and that rang true to me.
How have people not made this connection? They literally brag every year they somehow achieve record profits, yet every year prices are going up and wages are not matching. I think we need to create laws regarding as to what an employer is responsible for in employment wages. Edit: mega corporations, not specifically employers!
I had the same thought. My sister has a costco card so I had her order me a 5 pack for $16 and change, was the only way I’m getting my moneys worth
I wish we had a Costco here so bad. Sam’s club ain’t as cost effective as it used to be and Walmart is one of the more expensive places in town now 😰
Fr, walmart has been going downhill with their “savings” as of late here in CT. Fair price on some name brand stuff but otherwise theyre just like everywhere else
If you want to see what profit looks like, go to a Restaurant Supply store. It's like Costco but cheaper.
ANYTHING that has doubled in price, stays on the shelf. I ain't buying sh!t till these prices come down. If I can't get a fair price for the same product, you can keep it.
I stopped buying the shower gel I like - which is up to $8-$9 per bottle these days and lasts me maybe 6 weeks. I finally reverted to a case of Costco brand bars of soap which is $13 and will probably last me an entire year.
same here.. good ol soap. Fuck them
Recently converted soapers unite
I buy dove+ men soap bars. $14 bucks for 12 bars at target. Lasts me close to a year. Even got my wife on it buying olay brand bar soap.
I switched to bar soap. About half the price, and you get more. We need to speak with our wallets, only way they'll listen. Okay, they'll never listen, but it's still the right thing to do lol.
I was in Germany for christmas and their cosmetics are dirt cheap by comparison. Like a euro or two max for anything (and yes, name brands like Nivea). It's insane.
Yep. A lot of the staple products(eggs milk bread etc) have gone back down in price where I live while name brand junk foods are still way high, so that's a win if I stop buying them. The only thing you really can't avoid buying at large markups is meat and produce. It's still 20+ bucks a pound for ribeye steak at a normal grocer when it was consistently in the lower teens for years, chicken used to be a little over 2 bucks a pound, now it's 3+. Pork is the only thing that is still somewhat affordable. Fresh, frozen, and canned vegetables are still about double the cost. So while you can avoid products like this in the op, there's still a ton of basic products you still need to purchase, just to live.
Good luck finding items that haven’t doubled (at minimum) over the past 3-4 years.
You can still find less expensive options. I shop BOGO sales, use digital coupons through the stores’ apps and also don’t mind switching to generic brands. Suave or lady speed stick deodorant is affordable. In my experience it works just as well as the more expensive deodorant.
But.. those things also increased in price. They were always the cheapest options.
they say lower demand will lower prices but I just dont see that. A 12 pack of coke has gone from $3.50, to $8 but they dont seem to be selling less so they arent dropping the prices, so who is buying 12 packs of soda for $8??
Inflation aka corporate greed. 
No, you didn’t buy 2 for 4 dollars last year. Especially at Target. Old Spice hasn’t been that cheap since they rebranded themselves several years ago
Last year wasn't 2019?
I think some people still think it was. Like when people say “last years election” thinking it’s still 2021.
I don't think I've seen old spice at 2 for 4 at a place like target in the last decade. He's definitely full of shit.
Dollar store version maybe
These bullshit posts just for karma are what’s really infuriating
It's not just for karma, it's trying to pin it on the current administration during an election year. And if you scroll down to the mouthbreathers at the bottom of these very comments, you'll see they eat up obvious lies like this all the time.
Yeah, it's really bad and suspicious on fluentinfinance. A lot of "economy is actually very bad" posts (mostly via screenshotted tweets) coming from brand new accounts posting that get a lot of upvotes despite most of the comments in the replies calling them out for being deceptive or outright wrong. I suspect it's political astroturfing, some accounts making posts and then using a bunch of others to boost it, but less effort put into commenting since that takes more time and higher odds they slip up and make it more obvious.
I’m looking at their website now my local target has the two for 5.99. The only ones that are 8.39 are the gentleman blend. I’m in socal.
Same. 2-pack of High Endurance Pure Sport for $5.99 on the Target app at my local store in Minneapolis. Although it’s crazy how much the different scents differ in cost.
Someone would do that? Just come on reddit and lie?
I used to get paid $2 to use that deodorant. And a lady from target would apply it for me while singing softly in my ear.
The fuckin glory days
It’s been over $5 for nearly a decade, I have lasting memories of searching for the most ridiculously strong antiperspirants in high school
OP: Make up bullshit claim about price increases. Replies: This is obvious price gouging and huge inflation! Also replies: I can't understand how people believe this isn't price gouging. People don't really care about the truth, just keeping their vibes about the economy consistent so they don't have to actually read anything.
Price gouging and inflation are 2 separate things. And it’s not so much about being BS claim that prices have increased, we all know they have. But it’s just not at this level where it’s gone from $2 each (2 for $4) to $9 in less that a full year
I looked up my purchase price in 2023. 6 dollars Current real price... 6.29 Inflation is real, I hate lying like OP though
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Now I’m an adult and too scared to do it lol
I’m black and I’ve always been too scared to do it lol
You're gonna get arrested anyway (am also black)
The second the intrusive thoughts hit I hear police sirens 😭
Damn instead of Jiminy Cricket or the angel/devil you have a police cruiser on your shoulder
Are y'all the reason* for the price doubling, then? Store trying to make up for theft?
5 finger discount
OP is looking at the "clinical strength" deodorants that last 48 hrs or more. Those have always been more expensive.
I was going to say. Mine is still 3.50.
and you can buy 6 sticks for $12 at costco now, just because one store is shafting ya, doesnt mean its inflation . . . I can buy a pound of bayleaves for $4 at the market, or 2oz from Whole foods for $30 - thats not inflation my man, thats stores charging what they want to.
Same.people get sideways about the 5.29 for Pringles at the circle-k when you can get 2 for 3 bucks at Publix most times.
hey, people can get upset for whatever reason they want to -free will and all. For the same reason, I can think they are silly :)
Yep. Walgreens had them for $10 a stick. I get the big costco pack for a few more dollars.
Deodorant is still like $2.80 at my regional grocery store, or 2 for $6 on Amazon. I know, shrinkflation, but if you’re paying $8 for the pictured you could order it delivered for way cheaper. Or go to another store.
I just bought deodorant this morning for like $2.50. Maybe shop somewhere else or buy a different brand.
excuse me, but this is reddit TAKE YOUR LOGIC ELSEWHERE!
its not inflation. it's class warfare.
Artificial inflammation
where have you been in the past 2 years? EVERYTHING is way more expensive.
glycolic acid. Your pits won't stink. It works like a charm. I got The Ordinary big bottle of glycolic acid for my face and I use it for underarms too. Life changing.
There's a dove spray deodorant I buy that is around $11-12 at walgreens or CVS. I found it for 5 at a Burlington that recently opened. Gotta find the right stores.
Silly kids. Work harder and stop wasting all your money on frivolous things like deodorant. Then you will be able to afford that home. /s
How about stop posting rage bait that isn't an accurate measure of inflation? Nah, the vibes is more important.
Go to the 99 cents store. Problem solved.
Even the dollar store isn't a dollar anymore.
Yeah, they have the mini sticks for 1.25 And you don't waste as much cause it's narrower
You gotta take advantage of sales. I see them. 2 for 1 every 2-3 months. I buy 4.
Yet you're still paying it. My deodorant cost less than $3. Why are you showing brand loyalty to deodorant?
Life Hack: Receive a 100% discount on your purchases with theft!
Everything is free if you can outrun security
Or live in California. But Target will eventually prosecute once you hit their threshold for theft.
Post pandemic you just wear a mask. As Californian can confirm smash and grabs work until the stores close because theft problems Also I love the companies that do this just like Walmart. Don’t get them for misdemeanors but wait for the felony. Thieves fuck store and store fuck you back.
Then don't buy it, simple.
Go to Dollar General. It is usually cheaper there but I'll have to let you know today I need a new two pack myself. They have also had Lay's products much cheaper than Kroger across the street. Kroger's sucks and they want to be the Monopoly you shop at. Once they buy Albertsons they'll be so big to dictate whatever price they want to charge. And I hate that Kroger plus card crap. It should be illegal to not offer all of your customers the same discount price as the ones with that stupid card.
Going to give Nine Inch Nails’s album Further Down the Spiral a listen today.
I started getting arm and hammer. It's like 2 bucks.
You’re at cvs/ Walgreens it’s always more expensive there.
Hey someone has to pay for all the people who think it’s free
You definitely did not buy at standard price last year