Viral empty chip bag video takes shrinkflation to a new level
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- čas přidán 10. 09. 2024
- A woman on TikTok posted a video of a nearly empty Funyon bag that went viral amid the rising concern of shrinkflation, which has become a nationwide concern.
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Totally a manufacturing problem... there are usually 3 chips in bag.. 😂 😅
Totally, my first response was 'what, where are the other two?'😅
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so will consumer sue ? if not then lets made a bunch lot of "manufactoring problem" to gain more profit
You guys get 3!!? I only get half 😂😂😂😭😭
@@samboandthemasonator😂😂😂😂
When you open the bag, you can almost hear a whisper "F you" from inside of the bag.
😂😂
You’re funny. 🤭
i thought i heard something 😂
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i miss when a bag of chips was only 25 cents and slightly bigger bag was 50 cents..
I remember 😍
I remember five cents and 25 cents
I've found my tribe!
The 99¢ flaming hot bag was $1.06
@@DameEsasTortasBot YES. I'd walk to the corner store after elementary school with a dollar and a dime! Put the pennies in a piggy bank after
One thing that companies are doing simultaneously raising the prices and at the same time shrinking the product. This level of greed is going to destroy this country.
Agreed I live in Europe, and I’ve visited Canada, Argentina, Australia, New Zealand and America has been then worst place I’ve gone to so far everyone’s so rude and ignorant wouldn’t live there even if they paid me to🤣🤣🤣
@RioSuave11 I lived in Europe for 22 years, I'll stay in the United States every day of the week. No way I'm going back to living with those people.
Well is there anything we could do to stop this? Seriously, it's like there's no hope.
But won’t someone think of the billionaires?
I feel you. I remember when I was a kid it was filled, filled.
Someone gave me the excuse that it was so the flavor lasted longer but I don't need to be a genius to know that's a dang lie.
"Even the crumbs were missing" 😂
They took the crumbs TOO omfg XDDD
They literally left no crumbs, PLEASE! 😭
I love that they reported on that comment
oh well this is what yall wanted so enjoy
@@SpaceRanger187 what cause we voted for someone with common sense?
Should start exposing these Billion dollar companies by pointing out their profit margins. If something costs you 15 cents to produce, yet you charge $5.99, then you can keep your product.
Amen
Assuming your numbers are correct, there's also labor costs, machinery maintenance, investment costs, debt repayment, lease or rental costs, stockholder returns, research and development, legal, and much more. They also have to have a rainy day fund due to market fluctuations in raw material costs. So the $5.84 difference doesn't just go into the pockets of the executives.
@@Frodojack was about to say... people be forgetting about labor and other expenses
😂 there's no need for exposé and "amen" this is not a secret at all, It's called capitalism with supply and demand. You just need to either to work on one of the factory, as manager and see it for yourself. Or befriend the boss and watch.. no need for the big company, just the tiny and nameless or "knockoff" snack factory.
Which I fortunately know from my father old pal.
Even a simple and less flashy 12¢ salt and flour chips can gave the owner 50 employee and still could managed to afford bigass mansion. I'm shocked it is that lucrative...
You're forgetting factory labor, machine maintenance, debts, fleet cost and maintenance, driver salary.... You're realistically looking at about $3.50 a bag to cover your costs and still make a profit, then the $1-$3 extra at the store is for the store to make profit.
That's the new one chip challenge
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Fr😂
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Nice 😆
The idea is to only try and eat one peanut, you can’t do it! - Alan watts
Not only that, they inflate the bags to make them look fuller. I know it’s good for preventing chips from getting crushed and crumbled but I’d rather have a full bag of crushed chips than a bag of air that’s now $8
False
Me as a semi-truck driver: 😅 are you SURE about that
I'd rather get Pringles lmao
Stop buying. When they lose enough sales, things will change, but not while people are still paying inflated prices for less product.
That's is really true
What you just pronounce is Boycott, but you are right one thing, if they think they can just give us one chip in a big bag, that's is not funny, if that ever happened let's see if customer still want to buy their shrinkflation chip bag's
I need my chips now!
Yup just look at the fast food chains and their $5 _limited_ meals. They are definitely feeling the drop in sale for their insane prices over their trashy food. They are trying to get customers back but people are finally saying no. Same thing needs to happen with grocery shopping too, stuff that comes prepackaged junk like these chips
kinda hard to stop buying products from companies who do this crap when nearly every if not every single company does it.
can you think of even one that doesnt?
This used to happen to me all the time in school...parents never belived me...they said look at the number on the bag (ounces) they exclaimed how much does it weigh...and then would say air doesnt weigh anything. Apparently 30 plus years I am VINDICATED with this video!
Make sure the bag said Funions and not Funion
Damn 😂😂😂😂😂😂
Lol it reminds me everybody hates chris episode
Like when you go through the drive thru and ask for ' 1 large fry '
Thats why ya'll getting single rings. Mine says FUNYUNS
reminds me of that JCVD movie knockoff or how high brand BUFU.
Lady about to get a lifetime supply delivered to her door 😂
Unless they're cheapskates and just give her a new single bag. But yeah, at minimum they should give her a full box with 10+ bags because this was just sad.
I just stop buying. Any of this crap. Simple
Same, it’s a win win for you. You save money and don’t consume processed food. 💪
So only if it happened to organic food it would be wrong?😂
Unfortunately so many people will lose jobs that depend on them .
They're obviously asleep at the switch to begin with so... @@JS-zb1vv
Yes I'm glad I never have cravings for that kind of kid food. I noticed shrinkflation immediately with even some of the healthier cereals and it's just a slap in the face
Every year these bags get smaller and smaller, yet the prices go up smh...
just like Toblerones. Those sneaky $&@%#
Back in the day companies would refund you or send coupons for free products but now when you write to them and show them their response now is were working on resolving the issue thank you for bringing this to our attention and thats it.
Yes. I have such a response letter sent to my mom when she had written about a product. That was of course, when America was great.
I have to give credit to Kimberly Clark for doing that recently. I bought both paper towels and toilet paper and complained to them about the poor quality. They sent gift cards for the full purchase price. But the fact remains the quality should not be that bad to begin with.
Dei hire... ignorant people at work lowerbquality works..😅
@eddyr1041 a dumb comment 🤦🏾♀️ not even laughable
Very true
As many below have suggested.....Stop buying their products. It's the only thing they understand.
The bag states .75 ounce. Not even a full ounce. And yet consumers keep buying them.
There's no way 0.75oz is 1 FUNYON. I'm in a kitchen weighing stuff all day, if 1 funyon weighed that much the family size bag would weigh like 5lbs lmao
@Anoonymuss1 My faddass just got excited over the idea of a 5 lb bag of Funyuns...
@@Anoonymuss1 In the snack bags marked .75 ounce there are only broken Funyuns. It’s .75 ounces of crumbs.
All corporations are greedy
I refuse to buy from any brands who participate in shrinkflation.
And I write to the companies expressing my opinion. I actually got an apology and two replacement $65 gift cards from Kimberly Clark. Most companies respond (if at all) with the copout answer that they sell by weight, not volume. I bought about a 3" bottle of Gorilla Glue that had about 1/2" of glue in the bottom.
What brands dont?
They all do buddy
@@NY_7 to a degree yes. But there are also brands that still give you the same amount of product and quality as before but they have raised the price a few cents or a dollar or two per item. I prefer to shop that way, rather than the ones who lowered quality and raised the price.
@@mistiinseattle that’s awesome
How do we even know the "inflation" is even still a thing and companies just do what they want because people grew used to paying whatever the companies ask for?
That’s exactly what happen
That's the problem with inflation. Once started by the greedy it keeps on increasing.
Not "shrinkflation" its called robbery
Scam
I bought a box like that from Sam's Club and it had one completely empty bag inside.
NO, we have not gotten used to being ripped off. WE JUST HAVE NO CHOICE!
Pretty much that.
You do, stop buying them.
Choices: to buy OR NOT TO BUY
Yep. These corporate companies are just straight up greedy.
Your money is your support. Dont support them, make your own snacks or find different ones
Seriously, people gotta start filing lawsuits for companies selling incomplete products. "Shrinkflation" is a scam. I actually get so angry when I open a giant bag of chips and its not even half full. What are we paying for, packaged air? This isnt the lorax but it might as well be!
No it's not a malfunction, they make millions of bags of chips a year, they purposely "malfunction" thousands of bags saving them thousands of dollars. I worked in the vending machine business for 15 years.
"Whoops"
I believe it , these companies will do anything to save money sadly it's at our expense
Its crazy how if they just gave ys the proper amount they would make more money 😂😂😂
That literally makes no sense, because they can save infinitely more money by just not manufacturing those bags in the first place.
In your theory, they are basically paying to spend less money, lol
@@dmwanderer9454 no, they sell boxes with 50 bags, or 40 bags or 30 bags per box, they still charge you the full price of the box even tho the "malfunction" bags have no product in them. It's not rocket science my boy have you ever bought a box with multiple individual bags of chips?. They are robbing you. And they know how to hide it as much as possible, like in a 50 count box for example having just one bag won't "seem" like a big deal but in reality they make millions in their total production so they probably "malfunction" thousands if not hundreds of thousands of bags per year. I worked in vending machines selling chips for over 15 years, I've been purchasing high quantity boxes of chips and trust me I've had dozens of people returning me a sealed brand new bag of Chips they got from a vending machine that was either completely empty or had like 1% filling.
I figured out chip companies were getting over on people long time ago. I'm a diabetic, so I used to read the nutrition facts on a lot of stuff back in the day. I remember they used to sell the small bags of chips for 25 cents. I remember reading the nutrition facts on a small bag of Sour Cream and Chedder Ruffles. Each bag had 15 grams of carbs in them, which means 2 bags would be 30 grams of carbs. Then I read the nutrition facts on the 99 cent bag, and noticed it had 30 grams of carbs in the entire bag, which means they're putting the same amount of chips in a 99 cent bag as two 25 cent bags. So that meams they were charging people double the price for the same amount of chips.
Just bought the same box at Walmart yesterday and every chip bag has less than a Palm full of chips!
You opened every chip bag to verify that?
@@ZVvereVvolf Yes we did! My wife was as mad as I was! After I grabbed the first bag and only got like six chips in it,she took out another and opened it! Only had two or three chips in it! Then we just started to open them all! Didn't get the equivalent of a medium bag from circle k from the whole box! We couldn't take it back to Walmart so we just decided never to get another box of single packs again! We don't particularly like the whole variety in it anyway! Now we both just get a family size bag of what we each want - but even those have more air than chips it seems nowadays! One bag used to fill a one gallon Ziploc freezer bag whereas now you only get about three quarters of a freezer bag now!
I feel her. Once I got 10% chips. 90% air. I'm not even joking.
I just don't buy junk, haven't for years. The only way things change are that you quit buying things.
I wish I could be more like you but my diet is so restricted unless I have the resources to cook constantly its just more realistic for me to buy junk lol
This clown thinks this only happens with unhealthy food 😂😂😂
From Funyon to Oneyon, Lmao. Maybe all the other bags have twice as much...yeah right
Corporate greed
Biden greed, every thing went up.
@@chenlee3240 price gouging corporations control that. People blame President's for everything check out your ceo,s that are raking in record profits
@@chenlee3240You can't blame Biden for the effects of the pandemic. This is happening all over the world. But conservatives care more about money than anything and love pointing fingers at liberals.
And do you know what? The elites want to keep everything for themselves whilst neglecting basic needs for the populace and keeping them submitted
@@chenlee3240Nyet. It's corporate greed.
They make less of the product but make you pay more.
I got a box of raisin nut bran cereal with no almonds in it. Something not right in unregulated private industries. Consumer Protection agencies are asleep at the wheel. Unapologetically,
it goes deeper than that
What consumer protection? We lost consumers and employee protection years ago when Lobbying, Super PACS and Citizens United became legal
Consimer protections are a joke. They are in bed with products makers. They just get bought out
Some time back, I opened a can of Campbell’s Chicken Noodle Soup and there was nothing but what appeared to be broth in it. Called the customer hotline, was put on hold, they then disconnected me after several long minutes. I buy Progresso soups now. Haven’t bought a single can of Campbell’s since. Unless you go public, they don’t care….
frito lay took corporate greed to whole new level
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What else would expect from Pepsi?
Across the global companies are colluding with each other to raise prices, this rapid inflation isn’t made by shortage of supply or a rise in consumer demand, but a blatant greed of CEO’s.
Anytime you buy those variety boxes, no matter where, they WILL have bags skimped, and also not every quantity will be in there. There should be like a little * on the box telling you not every bag will be the same, not every box will have the same amount of quantity.
Buy a regular size big bag, and use a zip lock if you wanna portion it out. These smaller box bags are a gimmick and scam.
I'm positive this will be revealed to be a hoax. How would she know in an unopened bag there would only be one chip? There aren't even crumbs. She clearly removed the contents and resealed the bag with a single chip. She should be sued for this. With that said, shrinkflation is real and disgusting but until consumers protest and stop buying it will never change and we only have our complacency to blame.
They've been doing this. Changing the packaging and giving you less while paying more.
When she said who's trying to be funny it made my whole day
Thank u
Literally 2 cookies in a famous Amos bag lol… same thing. Bought a bulk box and that happened.
To begin with. We shouldn't buy chips anymore
Speak for yourself
Yea it's not even real food. Illegal in Europe
Or you just buy the regular size and make your own snack size version
Most things are illegal in Europe. We don't use Europe as the standard.
Plural? The lady didn't!
Finally, a chip company that actually helps people lose weight.
You know, that's a mistake.The bag I got had 5 and a peace off crums 😂😂😂
Used to work at a convenience store and a super market. Sometimes an empty, sealed bag does come in with delivery. Lol.
Los Angeles here, we have 8½oz bag of Ruffles Original $5.99 insanity!
Its what you voted for
@@Luis-gm1go When Ruffles called for the annual price increase vote I voted No. Just so you can rest easy. I don't vote Democrat asshat!
Then people wonder why I still can't get out of homelessness since the pandemic... With food and rent and gas all skyrocketing left and right!
@@Network126 Lol you're homeless because a bag of Funions is too expensive. Sure. It's totally not that you're unemployed and addicted to meth.
Long Beach cali here and I’m in extreme misery in California and oh I don’t eat ultra processed snacks . Carnivore plan
The seal checker settings wasn't set correctly thats why that bag may have got though to the customer. It suppose to been rejected when it went through seal checker.😮😮😮
Greedy companies
Didn't a black kid die on South mountain? Malnourished culture😂
They bought you off with Pride support.
Funyons cost more than gas now!🤦🏻♀️😭😭
Americans did not get accustomed to shrinkflation. It was forced onto us
I bought two boxes of honeybuns from Walmart yesterday and was charged $10.00 for each box instead of $1.88 which was supposed to be the price. I didn’t think about it until I got home and noticed the total on my receipt was way too high for the few items I had purchased. I took them back this morning and got a refund but it makes me wonder how many times this has happened before and I’ve not noticed. From now on I’ll be checking all my receipts after shopping.
You should be paying attention BEFORE you leave the store. Why have to make another trip back to the store when you were there earlier and could have caught the mistake while you were there?? Even if you're scanning things yourself, you should be paying attention so you don't pay more or miss paying for something. Good grief, some of the stupid stuff the younger generations go through is self-inflicted 🙄
@@stiixgirl6148The store shouldn't be overcharging her in the first place, that's fucking theft
Always pay attention as the cashier is scanning. Don’t let them start scanning before you get everything on the belt. I was overcharged yesterday and I caught it. I was buying grapes that were $1.99 a pound. The cashier was trying to charge me three dollars.
Corporate greed at it’s finest.
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No dude...its that bad...one chip in a bag is really how they feel...they want all our money without them having to give up the products. ..just like renting a one bedroom one bath apartment for $1800 per month...
If rent is that high, maybe it's time to rethink where you live.
@Bigfoothawk rents should not be this high for any US citizen. It shouldn't be a choice of living in a ghetto and having your car broken into vs. Paying 3 times as much for peace
...decent housing and food should be a right not a privilege...especially if you've worked your entire life and pay taxes...in TN..$1800 is the average amount of rent for an apartment where I live, houses for rent is about $2200... tub of butter $7 Pack of chicken wings $19 gallon of gas $3.79
Family pack of chips is $25. A bag of apples $8
...its extortion..
We're getting robbed...
@@Bigfoothawk it's all over the country. In California it's worse it's 2300 for a moldy one bedroom. There's no car break-ins but you got your hand full of asshole neighbors as usual. There's a nice little fitness center and a couple of pools but not many people use them. Tennessee should not have those types of rents. I'm not the one who defaulted on my rent during covid but yet everyone has to pay for those who did
@Kaybaby6668 yeah covid hit hard..I applied for help and they denied me...but all the scammers got approved...charging people this much to live is some nasty work...
@@navybeans17 I believe that these scammers know how to work the system. Awful. Imagine shutting down the country every time someone sneezed. I hope you getting back on your feet somehow
Nope, not a factory mistake folks... welcome to the new normal! (It's not just 'shrinkflation' but they are replacing natural ingredients with the cheapest chemical ingredients now... cocoa butter is replaced with cheaper vegetable oil, sugar is replaced with cheaper Fructose, cream is replaced with cheaper powdered milk, etc., etc.)
Have you been in a coma for the last 40 years?
"A single funyun" - I've never heard that said before.
"It ain't no funnn, when your bag only haaaas one" 😂💯🤣
While profits from this and similar corporations continue growing. CEO salaries and workers salaries gap continue widening. We will all see retail theft and identify theft to grow.
This is the end stages of cap.
While you’re first statement is true and impactful, people have been saying “this is the end stage of capitalism” forever. Your point is more convincing if you leave off the buzzword phrase.
@@icecream-zi7sc yet people still believe Jesus is coming back.
And that is an even older saying, created before capitalism ever existed.
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They trying to prove that you can't eat just one.
Our "family sized" Dorito bag was missing the flavor seasoning from EVERY SINGLE CHIP..! 🤦♀️ darn if only I had recorded me opening the bag 😂 lol jk
You could call the company, they’ll send a refund and coupons. I’m sure it’s a mechanical error. After a product is bagged, it passes a scale before packaging. Scale may have not bern calibrated correctly. It’s likely a human did not touch this bag of chips in the packaging process, rather automation.
Packaging is a ripoff to make you think your getting more than you actually are. They lie and say its settling but that is a lie.
This has been going on since 2020! It's called, "Robing the customer of their portion they paid for."
Robing the customer sounds pretty nice, actually. Is it a fluffy robe or a silky one? I’d prefer silky, I get hot easily
@@bettygrable6440😂
Its been going on a lot longer than since 2020. I'm guessing you live with Mom still.
@@KB-kp2ozWhat does living with a mom have to do with that 😐🤦🏾♀️. Why are you self projecting your life in these comments
@@Snow-xd4rv the lack of life experience and a plethora of comments about stupidity. It's obvious. And no just because someone tells you that you're doing something doesn't mean they're projecting. That is the largest beta male comment on CZcams.
People nowadays acting like you cant reseal a bag of chips
Fake because you can easily reseal any plastic bag with a vacuum sealer
I was thinking the same thing she just wanted to go viral
That's what I was thinking too no lie
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A vacuum sealer would've sucked the air out, hence the name "Vacuum Sealer."
@@EBrooks856 thank you. That's the one thing that contradicts that argument
At the end of the day, whether it's just raising prices on goods or cutting back the amount of goods at the old price, what this really qualifies as is "greedflation".
The reporters saying this is an accident are liars. Can you believe they get paid 250k+ a year to do this lazy work?
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Really!
I didn't know that.
They don’t. Reporters get paid crap unless they’re big time
They always trying to steal the thunder from social media.
Who ? Where ?
This is why I stopped buying chips. It's mostly air now at days.
Maybe YOU have grown accustomed to paying more and getting less, but not those who are old enough to remember when America was great.
This is what corporations are doing to American consumers.
We have not become accustomed to shrinkflation….
We have not become "accustomed" to this, we're pissed about this.
She resealed the bag with the gadget from Temu. Stop playing.
Those bags are a waste of material even when they are correct.
That’s why I buy the Mexican version it’s a lil more but worth every penny 😂
Grown accustomed too...
Do you mean to say we have no CHOICE? Because its becoming stupid out there.😢
Fabricated😄
@@dwb-ss3hp all just for attention, people these days😄
@@patriciafettuccine7324 re-glued bag after emptying it
@@mikescorpio13 how did she get the air back into it then?
@@Kaybabes1968 and you are accusing me of not thinking... how do they put the caramel in Caramilk....
@@Kaybabes1968 wait nvm just realised what your avatar is... cant argue with delusional women so you must be right dear.
I totally just stopped buying items like this smh they don’t get my money anymore
And here these reporters go trying to justify shrinkflation smh
Stop giving your money to corporations.
If you tried to figure out right now how to survive without having to pay a corporation your head would start spinning
This is why I don't buy chips anymore. You never get your money's worth.
The news is trying to normalize this like its ok no big deal.
Her face is what made the video. 😂 She backed up and was like "REEaaLY?!🤨
Manufacturing mistake?...Nah, they just got caught.
That ain't shrinkflation. That's a rip-off!
Stop paying for this garbage that is killing you.
"Its getting bad, but not thst bad." Its still bad though even they know it and just laught it off 😂
I stopped buying Frito-lay products after the normal bags crossed $2.
Even Little Debbie done lost her dang mind!! Before COVID her Honey Buns were 2/$1 ... Now a single Honey Bun is costing $3 - $4 ... I haven't had one since COVID
Greedflation is the suitable term.
Oh...they one hundred percent think we're stupid out here.
When we pay $7-$8.00 for a full-sized bag of chips and it's just under a third full, we know we're getting screwed...!!!
Obviously, she opened,removed 2 chips, and then resealed
We overshot inflation and went straight to price gouging.
They’ll shrink your products, raise the prices, and you’ll do nothing about it. The cycle continues.
Those things are loaded with MSG and additives anyway. Besides, Frito Lay is notorious for abusing their employees - who would want to support that?
Sadly, This seems to have become the Norm since Covid. Consumers are being ripped off by all these Billion dollar companies. The worst parts.... they could care less and get away with it 😢😢😢. We work Hard for Our money to be jipped like this 😠😡🤬.
She took em out, resealed it, recorded.
The evil greed in this country is ridiculous. Companies stay shrinking the product but raises the price. I hate it here
I used to work in factories. All they care about getting your production numbers up. "Get your numbers up! You're supposed to do 150% an hour!" They worry more about quantity over quality.
They're trying to make us forget about shrinkflation with this light hearted report
Whatever happened to holding companies countable for doing shady business practices? Isn't there an oversight that governs companies or no?
Trust me when I say NOBODY has "grown accustomed to paying MORE for LESS" it pisses ALL OF US off but there's NOTHING we can do about it in most cases.