What exactly happened?
The OP failed to post a link to the article

>>21968424
I don't know what's come now you've posted apart from me because I'm horny

>>21968444
She couldn't post the article. She got this image from Twitter/Reddit/Facebook/wherever. She didn't make it herself.
>>21968424
lmao
It was 99¢/bag a few weeks ago. We don't even eat chips but for that price, we're gonna eat some fucking chips.

>>21968444
>>21968445
>>21968458
>>21968526

You making my hungry but not that damn hungry.

>>21968444
https://financialpost.com/news/retail-marketing/expensive-doritos-cost-pepsico-billions

>>21968648
>"according to people familiar with the matter." x 4+
iow, it's all made up and the points don't matter

>>21968648
This sky is all subsidized gmo corn and seed oils. It didn't cost them shit. The article comes off as trying to garner pity for a billion dollar company that hates you
>>21968671
This also

>>21968458
>She

>>21968424
>who could have seen this coming
who would care?

>>21968424
I wish Pringles would understand that I'm not paying $4 for one can either

>>21968424
PepsiCo had a near monopoly and they fucked it up. Now people just buy brand store shit since you can buy two (or even three) bags for the same price.

>>21968806
No store brands are like Doritos

>>21968818
And doritos aren't worth 7$. So people buy something else.

>>21968785
I will never understand you people who don't stock up on shelf stable, frozen or freezable food when it's on sale.
The sale prices are the real prices. It's inflated the rest of the time. If you're paying $4 for a can of Pringles, you're overpaying by at least $2. Stop that. And for goodness sake, use coupons.

>>21968824
I'm not paying $4 for pringles, they're too expensive.

>>21968458
>she

Stop posting that, you retarded incel pile of shit. Go shine your car keys.

>>21968832
>car keys
Keyfaggot got the she thing from me. I've been saying that here for a decade or more now. My son want even born yet when I started saying "she" on this board and he's gonna be 9 this year.
Don't ever compare me to that piece of shit. I actually do some good on this board.
>>21968829
Good. If my timing isn't off, they're going to be on sale next week or the week after that anyway. I don't know how much, but Kellogg's hasn't put them on offer in a while and sale prices are cyclical.

>>21968444
the medium size bags have been $5.50 for a while now.
even pringles are $5.20 a can

>>21968824
>biding your time so you can catch the right sale to stock up on piles of goyslop
Wait until you realize that you don't have to buy it at all.

>b-but i need my potato dust seed oil crispy crunchies

>>21969489
Tell me: where did that post say I buy Pringles? I'm just aware of prices. My family and I don't actually eat chips often at all. Maybe once or twice annually.

>>21968818
True, but the shelves are full of alternatives to their other brands like Ruffles and Tostitos, and it's strange that they think they can charge a premium.

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>>21969475
>even pringles are $5.20 a can
The party size cans are $3. The regular size cans are $2.50.

>>21969616
>prices for a store located in nowhere Ohio
Ohio is dirt cheap across the board. I felt rich when I had to stop in Columbus a couple years back.
Would have been better to show a price from an actual city.

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Seeing this thread after buying 4 bags of doritos is really funny to me. All of their bags are priced at 4.25 for 9oz bag. Saw this deal while doing a bit of online shopping, essentially a buy one get one free deal, but x2. They have all of the standard flavors, the only one NOT included in this sale was cool ranch, my favorite flavor. But knowing I got a total of 4 bags that will last me two weeks or so for 8.50 feels good.

No sympathy for paddlers of junk food, may PepsiCo go bankrupt.

>>21968818
I just don't buy Doritos anymore. I get generic cheetos and kettle chips from Aldi because theyre like $2/bag. Fuck name brands.

Is it just me or did doritos start putting less seasoning on their chips a few years ago?

>>21969631
Why would I try to intentionally look up some expensive city like a baiting shitposter instead of just showing the local prices I pay? It's not my fault you live in an overpriced shithole.

>>21969683
Indeed.

>>21969669
Peddling junk food; that's a paddlin'.

>>21969685
yes it is

>>21969637
So you're eating like 2 bags of this trash per week? Please fix your eating habits.

>>21968444
theyre now priced the same as higher end snacks so are having to compete with higher quality shit AND lower quality shit at the same time
tldr execs are retarded like usual and proof that nepotism runs the world

>>21969683
they are and its really noticable

>>21969719
Well, if it's my fault, you probably deserved it. I wouldn't have done that to you for no reason.

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>>21969616

>>21969762
>options from $6.99 - $19.47
That's a shipped item, not available in-store. The prices on shipped food items are always retardedly inflated.

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i like how all articles complaining about prices are c*lifornia prices
i live in the c*lifornia of the midwest and even the prices here are no where near as bad

>>21969780
They should really use Hawaii prices if they want maximum shock and engagement.

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im going to use this thread to complain

the new Baked line of lays and cheetos isnt good, they taste worse, and theres not as much flavor dust as the regular ones. dont buy.

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this thread reminds me that for the low price of $7000 you can buy a semi automatic chips production line on alibaba which produces around 50kg/h which equals around 170 bags of chips. At $3 a bag that's $500/h, so it basically pays for itself! (if you eat around 3000-4000 bags of chips)

>>21969762
>larger pack has a WORSE price per weight
they have started doing this shit last few years bc they know people just buy bigger ones assuming it's cheaper in more bulk even if it aint. you could have got 2 of the 5.2oz ones for less than the price of a single 6.8oz.... retarded

>>21968424
how have they gutted all the quality from Doritos and they’re still that expensive

>>21969841
I like them, the white cheddar ones. The other ones aren’t good. I really love the new potato and onion flavors of the baked lays tho. baked lays have been my go to chip for almost 10 years. something has happened over the last few months where the regular baked lays have inconsistent salt where half the chips have no salt and the other half have so much salt you can’t eat them

>>21968424
>$7
What the fuck? The family size is on sale for like 4 to 5 dollars all the time

>>21970001
>3000-4000 bags of chips
The average American does that every quarter

>>21968424
$7? They cost $2.33 USD for a 300g bag in my cunt.

>>21968424
Pepsico needs to bring back the wasabi doritos and also bring the doritos late noght roasted chicken to the US if you're reading this pepsico i am a SHAREHOLDER AND I DEMAND YOU COMPLY WITH MY REQUEST

>>21968818
Idk man aldis have an 11 oz bag of fake doritos for $2. I used to inhale those when they were disgustingly cheaper at $0.75 but now I’m not buying it. Still cheaper than real doritos.

>>21968648
>Nobody wanted to be responsible for a short-term revenue blow dealt by slashing prices, according to the people, who asked not to be named discussing internal matters. So the company tried anything else that might lure customers: promotions, shrinkflation. None of it worked.

gee non of it worked? Screwing people didnt work? We didnt bend over for these asshats and thank them for the shrinkflation?
Anons. we need to go buy some doritos. billionaires need our help now more than ever

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>>21968424
they're made in CHINA.

>>21970519
No, thats including shipping because its not under walmart+ and not in store. Its gotta get shipped from a nearby store essentially.

>>21970001
That’s a bit high, I think the yield of chips would be lower. There’s no way you could fry that many in day

>>21970001
In the right area you could probably make some decent money with this but the setup seems to be a bit of a pain in the ass.

Why are chips more expensive than 1 dollar?
There has to be price fixing by the manufacturers.
It’s literally the cheapest potatoes bought in bulk and a bit of trash oil and flavor dust. It can’t possibly be that pricy.

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>>21971195
yeah the fryer is probably the bottleneck but you could get two

>>21971229
for around $15-$30k you can get a fully automated production lines for chips

I've been buying the supermarket brand chips for a while and they taste the same and cost much less. There is one for almost all the famous ones like Pringles, Lays, Ruffles, etc.

>>21968424
Generally speaking it's good business to sell a more premium product but it becomes a problem when too many parties are fishing in the same pond.
There's not exactly a shortage of luxury food offerings available and doritos are obviously not one of them. Rich people will buy something else while poor people can't afford them.

>>21971353
You get the cheap production line for $7k
the current potato future price is around $3/100kg with a contract volume of 25 tons so around $750 + shipping
Then you need oil, spices, bags and so on, let's say $0.1/bag
You probably need to fulfill 10519245 regulations.
There will be some loss so let's estimate around 15k bags which requires you around 3-4 weeks of work
You're raw unit cost per bag is around 20 cents
Let's say you run a very tight ship with overheads, repairs, investments, rent, regulations and so on you are at 30 cents / bag

You want to make some money so you sell your bags at 50 cents to a wholesaler (because no chain will buy directly from you), the wholesaler wants to make some money so they sell it to the supermarket for 75 cents
The supermarket knows snacks are high margin items and sells a bag for $1.99

Alternatively, you sell direct-to-consumer, you'll need to invest heavily in marketing / advertising and you'll probably want a logistics partner. Given that internet ads became pretty expensive it's going to be tough selling at $1 and still making money

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>>21969616
>store that doesnt exist
>online shopping for fucking groceries

>>21971353
there's a cartel for every crop. farmers have to accept prices from the buyers, i.e. the people who have the storage silos, equipment, facilities, manufacturing centers, etc. usually the same group managing all of it.

it costs more than reasonable, and the most money goes to the people who never planted shit. some farmer somewhere is making a pittance for having to engage with the global supply chain

>>21968424
>Sales have been down a lot since last year,” he said, attributing it not just to high prices but immigration raids and other fears.

Mexican bros.......

>>21968424
Post a loss for tax reasons.
Post an improvement next quarter for corporate bonus.
Layoff a bunch of worked for Christmas bonus money.
The only solution is a lot of very affordable rope and a liberal standard for what gets you at the end of it.

>>21969510
you replied to a post about them, asking why people don't stock up during sales
in human conversation, it's assumed you're referring to the subject already being discussed unless specifically stated otherwise
stop being retarded

>>21971168
>Philippines market
nothing burger

>>21969489
This. Not worth it and not even good for you in the first place.

>>21969510
Closeted gay safeway cuckold coupon user

>>21972990
Learn how to compose a grammatically correct sentence and get back to me.
Thank you.

>>21968424
7 Freaking dollars for a little bag that's 60% air when the minimum fucking wage is 7.25? Everything is turning to SHIT and these companies deserve bullying. Everything is getting smaller, more compact, shittier AND more expensive. FUCK THIS BULLSHIT. What is it going to take? Where is the breaking point for every American?

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>>21971168
>Wuhan China

>>21971381
>for around $15-$30k you can get a fully automated production lines for chips

lol, no. For $15-30K you could maybe get one of the machines (used).

>>21968424
Why are corporations such idiots?

>>21969727
NTA but no

>>21972246
>store that doesnt exist
You've never heard of Kroger and are too stupid to google it and see that it's a massive national chain?
>online shopping for fucking groceries
Exactly how third world are you? Looking up the in-store prices online is easier than driving to the store and taking a picture of the price tags.

>>21968424
Yet they are still $7 in my pissant town.

>>21972990
That response doesn't explain your retarded conclusion-jumping, you retarded conclusion-jumper. I never said I buy them and even gave an explanation for why I know the prices. You miss both of those points like Shaq with a free throw.
>>21973798
wut
>>21974050
Bro probably lives in the Northeast. We have real supermarkets here.

They're reducing prices because you can't buy doritos with food stamps anymore

>>21968458
>we
Kys

>>21969780
>>21969637
Are you FUCKING retards serious?
What do you THINK the article is about?
Can you, I dunno, READ THE FUCKING PACKAGING OF FOOD YOU'RE BUYING???? No because you're so gay and fat that you just shovel the slop without even blinking
Fat fucking hogs
They lowered the fucking kike prices because people weren't buying them
That's what the article is about
They lost money
Admitted it and lowered prices
This article comes out
But no no, some fat fucking faggot on /ck/ has to make a diarrhea post about "muh California lol is cheap for me" as if it's some kind of... Insight? Or what? Do you brainless cattle even know why you're doing anything? God damnit I hope you die, today, painfully. Fucking fat fucks.

>>21974192
>You miss both of those points like Shaq with a free throw.
Kek

>>21974192
>Bro probably lives in the Northeast. We have real supermarkets here.
In my experience, the northeast is so dense and cramped that there is nothing that could possibly count as a supermarket. Supermarkets are places like Meijer and Wal-Mart, and the northeast is too dense and space-restricted for that kind of thing. But also, Kroger is a grocery store and not a supermarket at all, so I don't understand why you even brought that up.

>>21974226
Grocery stores and supermarkets are the same thing you provincial retard.
They have plenty of those in the Northeast just as they have plenty of Walmarts, Targets, Costcos, whatever your hick ass thinks is "fancy".

Don't be surprised when a product meant for poor people to consume doesn't sell well when you price poor people out of said product. The rich are the only ones not hurting now and the rich do not eat goyslop.

All the food products and fast food restaurants thay rely on poor people to survive are gonna be in a very bad place soon. The rich will not eat their toxic shit and the poor will resort to eating ramen and sardines.

>>21974226
You don't know the difference between a supermarket (ShopRite, Hannaford/Giant, Wegmans, Acme, Kroger, Publix, Hy-Vee, HEB etc) and a hypermarket (Walmart, most modern Targets, Super Kmart when they were still a thing, etc).
>>21974231
>Grocery stores and supermarkets are the same thing
Yeah, kinda. Not that long ago, they were absolutely two separate things but with most grocery stores no longer existing in most of the anglosphere anymore, supermarkets have embedded themselves into the role so thoroughly that the terms have become synonymous. Funny enough, the northeastern US is probably the only part of the country that still has grocery stores, though they're not nearly as common as they used to be.
Grocery stores are typically one room or at most two with fresh food and a small amount of non-food packaged goods, the inverse of a bodega.
Supermarkets are a specific format of grocery retail with multiple aisles and similar general layout (fresh food on the perimeter, junk foods in the middle) that expand on the older grocery store format.

>>21974231
>whatever your hick ass thinks is "fancy".
Who said anything about fancy? They're just big and so don't exist in dense metropolitan areas like what are found in the northeast.

>>21974518
Nothing to do with being too big for dense metropolitan areas. Target exists in New York just fine and there used to be a Kmart right by Penn Station.
Walmart has tried many many many times to open stores in NYC. What keeps them out is extremely negative public opinion of the stores which has led to numerous protests and blockades to prevent them entering the market, not to mention union opposition to their business practises. This is true in most of the Northeast, with Philadelphia, being the exception. It has multiple Walmarts within city limits and several more just beyond the boundaries but all locations are in relatively secluded areas (a former train graveyard, an industrial district, a mall on the very border of the city line and an abandoned shipyard), far from residents. The shipyard one isn't terribly far from houses but involves crossing train tracks (the same ones that terminate at the train graveyard location), an interstate and their ridiculously huge parking lot to get to if you're on foot. Driving? Not even three minutes from the nearest houses. The train graveyard one is just beyond an industrial district and still functioning Conrail yard that separates it from residential areas. Those residential areas, however, are Kensington lol

>>21974518
>They're just big and so don't exist in dense metropolitan areas
Nigga, what's bigger than IKEA and more densely populated than New York? There's two IKEAs here. Used to be 3 but the one in Queens closed and is moving to dense-ass midtown Manhattan lmao
There's also one being built in SOHO, which is also dense af.
There's no Walmart because New Yorkers don't want Walmart, like >>21974543 said.

>>21973854
https://aeon.co/essays/you-don-t-have-to-be-stupid-to-work-here-but-it-helps

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The keyfood by me has them priced for 2 for $7. Do I have to buy two of them to get this deal or will one be $3.50?

>>21974546
>There's no Walmart because New Yorkers don't want Walmart, like >>21974543 said.
There are several in Long Island

>>21974566
Long Island isn't NYC, you fucking retard. There's one in Yonkers, too. They're not NYC, either.
When he's talking about metropolitan sensory, he's not thinking of fucking Islip.

>>21974600
You said New York retard and the only thing keeping walmart out of manhatan is politicians and unions. Your average person would certainly want cheaper food options considering how expensive groceries are here

>>21974600
>metropolitan sensory
You metropolitan DENSITY, you dumb phoneposter?

>>21974602
>being so feminine and retarded that she can't keep track of the conversation
As expected.
>>21974607
Yeah. Also, fuck you.

>>21974602
Let's follow along:
>>21974518
>dense metropolitan areas
>>21974543
>dense metropolitan areas
>>21974546
>Manhattan (IE a dense metropolitan area)
>>21974566
>Farmington, Hoogivzashit county, NY
Not a dense metropolitan area and therefore irrelevant to the conversation.
Work on your reading comprehension.

>>21974610
>>21974620
>says something and backpedals when called out
I accept your concession retard

>>21968424
when i was at the store today i noticed a lot of chips now say "same size, lower price!" on the bag now lol

>>21974629
The whole "i accept your concession" spiel is the swansong of the loser. Sorry you had to find out this way, my unintelligent amiga.
And you really ought to learn what backpedaling is. Using such a simple term incorrectly is doing you no favours.

>>21974649
I accepted your concession autist we are good

>>21974656
>>21974656
>I accepted your concession
Indeed you did say that. Pity that doesn't hold much water when you're as wrong as you've been, kiddo. Now brush your teeth and scoot off to bed. It's a school night.

>>21974204
assmad and proud!
go back to plebbit, faggot.

>>21968424
>replace competent white men with women and subhumans
>max out bureaucratic inefficiency
>why price go up

>>21974736
It's not just at the bureaucratic level but the corporate level too. CEO of frito lay is a moon cricket started right before Covid and immediately raised prices

>>21974738
Exactly what I'm saying!

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Is food healing?

>>21975660
It was 99¢/bag in February.

I refuse to purchase Doritos since they got rid of the original Taco flavor. The late night taco flavor sucks balls.

>>21968839
>2 more weeks

>>21975688
Yeah, in 2007

>>21975891
Did you forget that Superbowl sales are a thing?

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Should I buy a bag of Doritos?

>>21976190
>dumb frogposter
you should buy a gun and use it on yourself

>>21974765
yup

did anyone try the burger flavored doritos? it just tastes like thousand island dressing, which I'm okay with but how is it burger..

>>21976223
I haven't had those specifically but in my experience burger flavor things just taste like pickle

>>21968424
Good link faggot

What's funny is all these items are cheaper in Canada lol. How times have changed I can get a bag of Doritos from my local convince store for 4.80. Cheaper if I go to Wal Mart or something

>>21973854
nepotism, most wealthy people and their kids really aren't smart

>>21973854
corporations are beholden to shareholders, and they are all boomers that are brain dead retarded wit lead poisoning, they do not know anything about the product they are investing into and just care about the line going up.
that's why we are seeing everything we are seeing happening to the quality of products.
they are seeing how much they can lower the quality/quantity and raise the price before the general public complain or stops buying it.