It's not delicious. It's fucking toxic. Any confusion of those 2 is a perfectly reversible addictive condition of a warped brain...warped by the toxins.
@@ohiasdxfcghbljokasdjhnfvaw4ehrbecause it's engineered to be delicious. Once in a while it's ok to have a treat but the additives these companies put in these processed snacks make it much harder to not eat them.
It's actually cheaper for them to turn healthy food to junk olive oil is a prime example most of it is cut with seed oils which are cheaper and very unhealthy.
I stopped eating Ultra processed foods, and avoid processed foods as much as possible. If you stop buying, maybe eventually they will provide healthier choices. I stopped buying mayo, and salad dressings. I make them from scratch. They taste better, and are better for you.
Why isn't that kind of blatant apologetics for suppression of competition called Borkism, after the man who tore apart United Statish antitrust enforcement in One Nine Eight Three?
There is already way too much corporate concentration in America. It not only means higher prices, but NO innovation. This is becoming a critical issue in the US, every sector has only a handful of players. There needs to be a massive breakup of these concentrated corporations.
I don't disagree, but how do you suggest we do that? Now that corporations have so much money and control anything we do to try and break it up will most likely have a negative effect on America. People will lose jobs, stock market can crash, or they will just move their HQ to another country and pay taxes elsewhere while still selling their products and services in America. And of course what politician is going to kill their career trying to push that kind of legislation. I imagine it's not something they would ever allow the people to vote on, it would be voted on by congress, I don't have much hope for such a thing to happen given the reality of how our country works.
@@RealHomeRecording Or, they could stop pumping stuff full of so much added sugar, canola, etc. They make enough money, so why can't they just develop healthier alternatives?
You're demanding that people who benefit from trusts to enforce laws that they benefit from by not enforcing. Almost every politician and official is compromised. That's a fool's errand. Better solutions are needed.
@@MachFiveFalcon yah I agree, it's disappointing. We need to start brainstorming different ways to handle this than relying on those who personally benefit from corruption.
@@nicksurfs1it’s actually not. Bananas are still nearly free. Nuts are cheap, popcorn kernels are, too. This crap will give you the beetus, and you’ll be on lifelong meds by 55 at the latest, unable to enjoy life because your body is crumbling.
@@BlackJesus8463We're not talking about enforcing an individual's morals. That's a monarchy. We're talking about creating and enforcing laws through an open legislative process for the betterment of our communities, something we do here in the United States with a democratic republic. Where you from?
Plant based and junk food is not mutually exclusive, what's wrong with you? Protein powder is LITERALLY just the macronutrient protein in an ultra-processed form, while something like high-fructose corn syrup is LITERALLY made from plants and can be really bad for you in large amounts.
I'm not sure why anyone trying to be more class conscious would give money to corporations unless there's just no alternative, like with housing. Trash food is literal poison. It's harmful to our bodies and our brains.
All that processed stuff isn’t even good for you. I think making the cost lower would encourage more people to buy leading to more illness and more health care cost. I wouldn’t even call these products food. I agree keep your snacks. Let’s talk about stoping sugar addiction in our children. In some other countries they are not allowed to have cartoon characters on cereal. Let’s talk about how other countries have banned certain chemicals in their food to protect their population.
Brands I once bought, I no longer buy more than once a year or so. Partly because they cost too much, but mostly because I try to eat healthier - and I no longer consider a lot of these things healthy.
I hate the direction the country has been going -sh!t.. since I can remember, EVERYTHING has gotten WORSE and life has gotten more and more difficult -every year. The first time I noticed the closing vice of American Fascism was when congress sneakily passed a law (prob 10-20 years ago no) that allowed companies to charge bank accounts of subscription customers REGARDLESS of whether or not they have your debit card number, OR if you've cancelled your debit card. We used to be able to stop unwanted subscriptions and cyclic withdraws from your account by simply cancelling your card -NOW? nope. You have to jump through a million hoops just to ask for permission to have your subscription payments stop. I HATE IT HERE
Then move to a country that suits you better. We are not a fascist nation. Italy, under the leadership of Mussolini was Fascist. You have no idea what you are talking about. Study the different forms of government throughout World History for a better understanding of what the USA is. It is unique in that it provides the most freedom for the people. VP Harris is a Marxist Communist, just like her father. Her father's family OWNED BLACK PEOPLE as SL@VES to work their Jamaican plantation. The USA hasn't been in this much peril since the Civil War of the mid 1800s. These are perilous political times; merging treat and snack production is only a blip in the scheme of a coming potential political uprising of this once great nation.
I had that - ONCE. Changed the card but the withdrawl kept happening. I went to the bank and said block that immediately. They didn't. I closed the account and went to another bank. When I tell THEM to block a recurring billing they do. My new bank absorbed the old one which disappeared entirely (rather than sneakily continuing to operate as 'competition')
Be grateful that at least junk food like these candies are getting more expensive. The last thing the US, any country actually, needs is more sugar and carbs!!
@@zerocal76my doctor recommended I shop on the perimeter of the store to help with my depression after divorce. No processed foods, only deli, produce, meat, fish and dairy, whole grains for bread, pasta, rice. Not only did it help my depression, I dropped 50lbs.
98% of people have no idea the US Treasury no longer accepts or cashes BEARER-BONDS. My father left me bearer bonds as Inheritance and I mailed them to the Treasury (which is what you're supposed to do), they mailed them all back to me with a vague apology letter explaining they just don't do that anymore.. I cannot imagine how many people are sitting on US Bearer-Bonds for Inheritance/retirement having No Idea they're completely worthless now unless the ORIGINAL BANK that issued them honors the amount, but many have changed names and altered records to use loopholes allowing them to not cash them anyway. Have bearer bonds yourself? Go try to cash them in, and see what happens. Some massive legal loophole allowed them to do that, they quietly did it overnight and intentionally told no one. Kept it very quiet. I dare you. Go cash in your Bearer Bonds. We are being ruled by pure evil.
@@avi919191always time for treating the addition... as for the dentistry... mouth health is very important. there is a strong link between mouth disease and heart disease ( from what i understand) be careful with that.
The one thing u shouldn't be upset is this junk food cost. U don't know how bad it actually tastes bc it's designed to get u hooked. Stop eating it for a month and you'll throw it away after a couple bites (exactly what I did)!!
@@avi919191 there are solutions, Overeaters Anonymous, Food Addicts Anonymous, Eating Disorders Anonymous, Anorexics and Bulimics Anonymous, being serious here. There's also Celebrate Recovery (Christian) and Dharma Recovery (Buddhist) meditation and mindfulness helped me deal with food cravings. Good luck 🍀
Companies mindset used to be how can i get the best product to the consumer for the most competitive price. Now it seems like every company thinks how much money can i get from the consumer.
@CmdrSoCal no, he's right. The currency is being debased too.... but most of what we are experiencing at the grocery store is unchecked and unfettered GREED!!!!
It is wrong in every way, that being said I my family do not eat that garbage. Snickers had no chocolate, made from nothing but oil, dyes, chemicals. Kroger's was just rated as #1 for having the worst grocery stores in Ohio, IN, MI.
The more prices rise on junk food the less i will eat. Its a win win for me and my health . But a lose lose proposition for this company when enough consumers like me stop buying their products.
If your snack food comes in a package and is comprised of over 10 unpronounceable ingredients, corporations are doing you a favor by raising the price, hopefully right out of your price range. Buy some apples. Buy some grapes. Buy some raw, unsalted nuts. Save some money and live longer. Eat real food.
Apples contain chlorogenic acid, quercetin, phlorizin, asparagine, and pantothenic acid. Just because you don't recognize a chemical name doesn't mean its not real food or its bad.
@@Alsry1 I agree with what I think you're trying to say, but the only ingredient in an apple is apple. And I hope people avoid buying packaged apple, because the packaging is entirely unnecessary.
And they snuck in removing some mini bars and printing the amount and weight in the side of the packaging where no one can read it. I hate the shorter toilet paper roll we have to change more often. Thinking of switching to Japanese roll with a much smaller inner roll and very thin metal spindle
@@ThootenTootinTabootin there are plenty of tasty, cheap and convenient foods where you aren’t giving money soulless corporations that will give you chronic health conditions in the future
So true. You can do just fine with bulk purchased dried legumes and whole grains cooked with a combination of garden fresh and store bought vegetables. There are also store brand offerings that are of comparable quality at much lower cost than these national brands.
Corporate consolidation has never worked out for the consumer. Look at airlines, they've just gotten crappier, more expensive, and now run off a concept of making people uncomfortable while having them pay more to ease up on the discomfort.
Not all monopolies are the same. Standard Oil was able to control its prices because oil was basically a necessity during that time period. Most of this food is not. Stop paying for this garbage ultra-processed food and I promise you, the price will go down, or the quality will go up. Vote with your dollar.
Isn't it amazing that the public education system isn't providing the education and the critical thinking required to make rational decisions ? Stop victim shaming and realize that it's the result of a carefully crafted system that goes far beyond than the choice made every few year by the electorate. Especially, given the fact that people can only choose to elect the best of two evils. People, who like you, see themselves as being above the crowd without committing to any grassroot social actions are the worst of enemies of the victim of the system. You're nothing more than a liberal.
You are right, but it doesn't really matter. This will happen to any commodity that people want. It doesn't really matter if it's a necessity or not (unless the government steps in). People want these snacks, the companies know it, so they'll raise the prices. Of course they'll come down if they become unpopular but the exact same thing will then just happen to whatever replaces it. There will always be something that people want and companies will clamor to buy up all the shelf space at the store for that object so they can control the prices and there's nothing we can do about it.
In the end it's pretty simple, a brand is nothing more than the goodwill it creates. When these brands keep jacking their rates for no good reason, it decreases the goodwill and people go elsewhere, brand be damned. Why do you think Aldi's and Trader Joe's are so busy right now.
It should be illegal to sell shelf space, it's too similar to collusion between verticals. This merger would be okay if supermarkets were limited to having relationships with suppliers like every healthily-competitive industry where the supplier is not also a marketing customer at the same time.
It’s classified as a “merger,” which allows it to exist without antitrust laws by jumping through legal processions and “approvals” to be allowed. “Approval” happens when company representatives cut deals with politicians in the background. Essentially, the politician gets some kind of kickbacks (such as cash, endorsement, or company stock) in return for the politician supporting and voting for the merger. It’s “technically” not a monopoly because it could “technically” have competition. But the competition is either a small company with a niche market that poses no serious threat, the other “major” player (such as Coke vs Pepsi) or doesn’t exist. So there’s no serious threat to their business, and therefore no reason to actually offer a fair price to consumers. The consumer has little to no choice but to pay any amount for the good or service; the only option is to choose NOT to buy the product, but people have to eat so that will only get you so far. Buying generic brands such as great value can help with the price, a little, but there’s just not much you can do anymore. Price gouging has destroyed the working class.
Nah, they just know we can't not buy food, this is hostage taking pure and simple. We need to take collective action on this one and vote in new governements across the gobe that will punish harshly this kind of behaviour.
im late 40s and bought maybe 20 candy bars in my life. back when they were 25 cents as kid in 80s i didnt think it was worth it and rather save my money for legos or something else. you people act like your life depends on a daily candy bar
@@shorgoth you call that food? hostage taking is what unions do when they go on strike. corporations pay the ransom and bill the customers. thats how life works
Then rich people can "vote" more with more money and get millions of dollars in bailout subsidies from some politicians. Not everyone can afford to boycott much. There are comments on critique videos of Temu that said they know Temu is bad but they couldn't afford to boycott. Watch documentaries on obesity. There are food deserts in America. Where it mostly just has processed food and that's all some people can get.
@@Madamoizillion it can shape the food we get though, corporations do respond to spending habits. We should be 'voting' or engaging in democracy wherever, not just electoral & spending boycotts, but in our workplaces with collective bargaining, showing up for our communities & long term power at the local, state, & federal levels, direct action against strategic targets as part of ongoing campaigns, cooperative locally owned businesses, etc. tbh their CEOs should be in jail for what they pass off as food, the inclusion of obscene amounts of sugar will go down in history as cartoonishly evil greedy scumbags, right up with the tobacco & oil industry coverups.
It’s a crime to raise prices of ingredients that have the lowest cost and have the longest shelf life. Processed sugar is literally so cheap that all the products you see in the store are primarily made of it. It’s the bandwagon they all jumped on underneath everyone’s nose.
bit of a weird question that just popped into my head after seeing the title for this. in all these corporate chains doing the crazy price raises, have any of them considered with all the crazy price raises they are doing and the quality and prices not keeping up with people's wages, have they considered that their targeted consumers might not be able to purchase the things they're pitching at them. won't that affect their bottom line for making money and all that?
now ask that same question with how these companies suppress wages by exploiting immigration, legal and otherwise. They want your money but don't want to pay first world wages.
Is she keeping on Lina Khan? (Apologies... spelling) She's been the most breath of fresh air I've seen in a very long time. I'm surprised she hasn't became depressed....
Inflation leads to Hyperinflation. Resistance is futile. Acceptance is the last stage and when you accept that Central Banks have caused inflation, then you can begin to heal the economy.
I live in europe and switched to aldi/lidl brand and all their knock offs years ago. I hardly ever buy 'branded' products and I don't miss them one bit.
I never liked that kind of candy as an adult. And now I have so much debt and bills, I can't afford any junk food at all. So jokes on them. I wasnt buying their crap snack food to begin with and especially not now.
This will work out for me just like Frito Lay and Coke going insane with prices during the pandemic. I simply don't buy it anymore. Can't afford it and not going to pay all that money just to have worse health.
Another reason to ween ourselves off of highly processed corporate food-like-substances! Oh wait, the grocery store industry is consolidating too. As are grocery distributors. And the farms! I guess we should start growing what we can!
American foods have become such trash. Just loaded with fillers, chemicals, and everything bad. Nothing tastes like I remember it tasting years ago. I don't buy any American packaged foods or snacks. I tend to buy European brands of snack foods. You can find European brands that are still made with just a few NATURAL ingredients. As an example, I buy some hazelnut cookies that have about 6 ingredients. A similar American-made product would have about 40 ingredients, most you wouldn't even be able to pronounce.
There are support groups to eat better. They started in the US and 1 started in Canada. Overeaters Anonymous, etc. The solution is spiritual, regardless of religion
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Maybe don't eat the highly processed bioengineered to be addictive snacks that often contain carcinogens that correlate to a rise in chronic illness rates? Talk about being charged multiple times over for the same snack after considering the possible healthcare costs 10-20 years down the road from the chronic illnesses. Is it really worth it to consistently eat these things?
I should add that Kellanova owns Kellogg's cereals outside of North America. Kellogg's North American cereal business went to W.K. Kellogg, the other spinoff of the former Kellogg Company. Mars' KIND brand has a presence in the cereal aisle with granola. Did you hear that Campbell Soup Company is changing to The Campbell's Company, reflecting its diversification beyond soup (which they've had for years with Pepperidge Farm, etc.)?
Only in America do people complain about the high price of junk food and then complain about the price of insulin. I mean, unless you have Type 1, you did it to yourself. Maybe this will actually be a good thing to make highly processed and sugary junk food less desirable. A 5 pound bag of Envy apples is only $5 at Kroger this week...
I was going into this with an open mind after hearing how much Mars can control, but I can't take it seriously when they've ended their point with a political candidate who's not even in the office as president; it makes it seem (even if it's not) like an advert for that person.
@@homelessalcoholic2716 But you have to admit there are also fewer and fewer independent farmers as time goes on and land gets sold. These corps are increasingly trying to shut that whole thing down in the USA.
@oculartremors Right but that's not even what you were originally saying. First you say they have actual patents, now you're calling it a hostile takeover, let's pick one and use the scientific method to prove it
Gotta say, chocolate bars seemingly havent gone up in price in a decade. Can still get them for a buck at the grocery store. Everything else though, i swear they've increased the price every 6 months the last 4 years.
Wonder how overpriced chocolate bars are in the first place... Ghana in Africa produces most of the cocoa and is paid almost nothing for it and is prohibited from producing any product with trade agreements, that's why Switzerland is so rich...and other countries...cocoa and coffee and exploitation
@@nikkijubilant Its so disgusting knowing how the cocoa trade works and how companies like Nestle and Mars can say "Look, no exploitation!" due to how they control the supply via intermediary merchants. So they can say they're all independent "Free Trade" producers, but have no control on what pricing they can get. These companies only know how to exploit and deceive.
Idea ! Implement mandatory elementary through high school classes to teach economics ... The Price from farm to table economics. What it takes who decides and how it ends up on the shelf!
Stop the fearmongering, "processed" doesn't mean what you think it means and you're embarrassing yourself. Protein powder is one of the most processed food items in all of human history, but it's LITERALLY just the macro-nutrient of protein that has been processed into a powderized form.
Let me be clear - processed & ULTRA processed food is killing us .... slowly, but..what if we voted with our dollar?! I loathe monopolies & especially Food monopolies based on hi-jacking our brains based on sugar/fat -something we are hard-wired to want based on evolution mind you. Personally, once I realized how badly I'd been manipulated with these brands SINCE BIRTH I got pissed & my Want for snacks & sweets OUTWEIGHED my HATRED for sticking it to them with my wallet vs. their bottom line. JUST VOTE with YOUR DOLLAR
It's all garbage made of the worst and unhealthiest ingredients .
too bad it's delicious
It's not delicious. It's fucking toxic. Any confusion of those 2 is a perfectly reversible addictive condition of a warped brain...warped by the toxins.
exactly... people should not be eating that stuff anyway....
@@ohiasdxfcghbljokasdjhnfvaw4ehrbecause it's engineered to be delicious. Once in a while it's ok to have a treat but the additives these companies put in these processed snacks make it much harder to not eat them.
Eh, I don't consume those poisons anyways
Imagine how cheap all of our food could be if they stopped turning 70% of our real food into absolute garbage.
Yes, and also our pet foods
It's actually cheaper for them to turn healthy food to junk olive oil is a prime example most of it is cut with seed oils which are cheaper and very unhealthy.
When I lived in England food was cheaper and of higher quality than what is available in the midwest. Americans should be angry and demanding better.
I stopped eating Ultra processed foods, and avoid processed foods as much as possible. If you stop buying, maybe eventually they will provide healthier choices.
I stopped buying mayo, and salad dressings. I make them from scratch. They taste better, and are better for you.
But magic is The soy protein Chain
"Consolidation" the new word for monopoly.
Why isn't that kind of blatant apologetics for suppression of competition called Borkism, after the man who tore apart United Statish antitrust enforcement in One Nine Eight Three?
Oligarchy
Bingo!
There is already way too much corporate concentration in America. It not only means higher prices, but NO innovation. This is becoming a critical issue in the US, every sector has only a handful of players. There needs to be a massive breakup of these concentrated corporations.
Or worse, bad faith innovation
Innovation to take money from you
I don't disagree, but how do you suggest we do that?
Now that corporations have so much money and control anything we do to try and break it up will most likely have a negative effect on America. People will lose jobs, stock market can crash, or they will just move their HQ to another country and pay taxes elsewhere while still selling their products and services in America. And of course what politician is going to kill their career trying to push that kind of legislation. I imagine it's not something they would ever allow the people to vote on, it would be voted on by congress, I don't have much hope for such a thing to happen given the reality of how our country works.
@@joebullwinkle5099 I agree 100%
Exactly! Beautifully put!
Every item mentioned, my doctor warns me to avoid. Thank you for giving me the final nudge.
Exactly
They aren't snacks they are poison.
Poisonous snacks :D
Yep. As far as I'm concerned raise the prices for all this diabetes crap to $50 per box. We need a healthier planet!
@@RealHomeRecording Or even to $100 :D.
@@JoATTech 👍
@@RealHomeRecording Or, they could stop pumping stuff full of so much added sugar, canola, etc. They make enough money, so why can't they just develop healthier alternatives?
Enforce antitrust laws! It's that simple!
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You're demanding that people who benefit from trusts to enforce laws that they benefit from by not enforcing. Almost every politician and official is compromised. That's a fool's errand. Better solutions are needed.
@@cdevidal Oh no doubt! I'm just saying that if most of them had a shred of integrity, enforcement of the laws should be (relatively) simple.
@@MachFiveFalcon yah I agree, it's disappointing. We need to start brainstorming different ways to handle this than relying on those who personally benefit from corruption.
@@MachFiveFalconhome cooking, home baking, home preserving.
I have literally stopped eating ALL of those brands a decade ago. Good luck raising the prices as more can't afford anything.
don't think you watched any of this
No one should eat ultra processed junk!
Just boycott them. This type of food is awful for health anyway.
The healthy stuff is a lot more expensive. They are stifling competition so the little guys won't be able to compete.
you can't. they own far more than just candy companies. it's like boycotting nestle or mondelez.
@@Misksound If all of their products are similar I am already not consuming it. Just don't buy it or give it to your kids. That is all we can do.
Yah because if we Americans are good at anything, it's standing together. (SMH)
@@nicksurfs1it’s actually not. Bananas are still nearly free. Nuts are cheap, popcorn kernels are, too. This crap will give you the beetus, and you’ll be on lifelong meds by 55 at the latest, unable to enjoy life because your body is crumbling.
“The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men." ~ Plato
This is why I can’t stand people who say they are apolitical
@@endxofxeternity Because there is no ethical way to force your morals onto your neighbors, that's what evil men do.
99.9999% are mindless peasants. What are good men going to do?
@@BlackJesus8463We're not talking about enforcing an individual's morals. That's a monarchy. We're talking about creating and enforcing laws through an open legislative process for the betterment of our communities, something we do here in the United States with a democratic republic.
Where you from?
Its processed junk food, its not that serious. White people problems.
Time to quit eating snacks. Save your money AND your health!
It's like McDonald's. If this junk is gonna price me out, I'll just buy premium stuff and get higher quality.
I second that, the silver bullet for my weigh loss journey for the last year.
Just buy the premium now my friend dont eat this fake food@@MrVariant
Yep
we'll only be in trouble if they start buying up all the spinach and sweet potato. but this is america we're talking about that would never happen!
A good reason to normalize worker co-ops and unionizing. And maybe grow your own food, eat more plant based foods and not so much junk food.
Do companies get initial investment capital with worker co-ops?
Plant based and junk food is not mutually exclusive, what's wrong with you? Protein powder is LITERALLY just the macronutrient protein in an ultra-processed form, while something like high-fructose corn syrup is LITERALLY made from plants and can be really bad for you in large amounts.
Damn, I’m gonna have to go back to growing my own candy bars, aren’t I?
I've already quit giving them my money. Keep your snacks.
Yep ive almost completely stopped buying chocolate bars and most of the candy aisle selections.
Their snacks tastes like shit anyways
I'm not sure why anyone trying to be more class conscious would give money to corporations unless there's just no alternative, like with housing. Trash food is literal poison. It's harmful to our bodies and our brains.
All that processed stuff isn’t even good for you. I think making the cost lower would encourage more people to buy leading to more illness and more health care cost. I wouldn’t even call these products food. I agree keep your snacks.
Let’s talk about stoping sugar addiction in our children. In some other countries they are not allowed to have cartoon characters on cereal. Let’s talk about how other countries have banned certain chemicals in their food to protect their population.
Yep, take the 3rd choice: find or make other, healthier, cheaper snacks.
Brands I once bought, I no longer buy more than once a year or so. Partly because they cost too much, but mostly because I try to eat healthier - and I no longer consider a lot of these things healthy.
I hate the direction the country has been going -sh!t.. since I can remember, EVERYTHING has gotten WORSE and life has gotten more and more difficult -every year. The first time I noticed the closing vice of American Fascism was when congress sneakily passed a law (prob 10-20 years ago no) that allowed companies to charge bank accounts of subscription customers REGARDLESS of whether or not they have your debit card number, OR if you've cancelled your debit card. We used to be able to stop unwanted subscriptions and cyclic withdraws from your account by simply cancelling your card -NOW? nope. You have to jump through a million hoops just to ask for permission to have your subscription payments stop. I HATE IT HERE
Then move to a country that suits you better.
We are not a fascist nation.
Italy, under the leadership of Mussolini was Fascist.
You have no idea what you are talking about.
Study the different forms of government throughout World History for a better understanding of what the USA is. It is unique in that it provides the most freedom for the people.
VP Harris is a Marxist Communist, just like her father.
Her father's family OWNED BLACK PEOPLE as SL@VES to work their Jamaican plantation.
The USA hasn't been in this much peril since the Civil War of the mid 1800s.
These are perilous political times; merging treat and snack production is only a blip in the scheme of a coming potential political uprising of this once great nation.
I had that - ONCE. Changed the card but the withdrawl kept happening.
I went to the bank and said block that immediately. They didn't. I closed the account and went to another bank.
When I tell THEM to block a recurring billing they do.
My new bank absorbed the old one which disappeared entirely (rather than sneakily continuing to operate as 'competition')
Be grateful that at least junk food like these candies are getting more expensive. The last thing the US, any country actually, needs is more sugar and carbs!!
@@zerocal76my doctor recommended I shop on the perimeter of the store to help with my depression after divorce. No processed foods, only deli, produce, meat, fish and dairy, whole grains for bread, pasta, rice. Not only did it help my depression, I dropped 50lbs.
98% of people have no idea the US Treasury no longer accepts or cashes BEARER-BONDS. My father left me bearer bonds as Inheritance and I mailed them to the Treasury (which is what you're supposed to do), they mailed them all back to me with a vague apology letter explaining they just don't do that anymore.. I cannot imagine how many people are sitting on US Bearer-Bonds for Inheritance/retirement having No Idea they're completely worthless now unless the ORIGINAL BANK that issued them honors the amount, but many have changed names and altered records to use loopholes allowing them to not cash them anyway. Have bearer bonds yourself? Go try to cash them in, and see what happens. Some massive legal loophole allowed them to do that, they quietly did it overnight and intentionally told no one. Kept it very quiet.
I dare you. Go cash in your Bearer Bonds.
We are being ruled by pure evil.
can we please boycott all this already?
1) cause corps dont need our money 2) we dont need the snacks 3) we need to make them bankrupt.
If only I am already hooked on the candy it’s a terrible addiction but my dentist loves me…
@@avi919191always time for treating the addition...
as for the dentistry... mouth health is very important. there is a strong link between mouth disease and heart disease ( from what i understand)
be careful with that.
The one thing u shouldn't be upset is this junk food cost. U don't know how bad it actually tastes bc it's designed to get u hooked. Stop eating it for a month and you'll throw it away after a couple bites (exactly what I did)!!
@@avi919191 just stand in line like a good robot. Addiction is a CHOICE.
@@avi919191 there are solutions, Overeaters Anonymous, Food Addicts Anonymous, Eating Disorders Anonymous, Anorexics and Bulimics Anonymous, being serious here. There's also Celebrate Recovery (Christian) and Dharma Recovery (Buddhist) meditation and mindfulness helped me deal with food cravings. Good luck 🍀
They are sliding towards monopoly. I hope the governments fights mergers of this scale/impact.
They already ARE monopolies, 10 “food” producing companies, 4 meat producing companies. . .
Biden finally started fighting M&As. Both parties have been cheerleaders for M&As for decades.
Plus they aren’t on competition they are in colusion
@@nickjw88
4 years too late. Unless he de-ages 20 years tomorrow, he's not doing anything meaningful in the span of the next 2 months.
Not as long as citizens united remains in place.
Companies mindset used to be how can i get the best product to the consumer for the most competitive price. Now it seems like every company thinks how much money can i get from the consumer.
capitalism in its monopoly phase and the corp price speculation it enables is driving the inflation you are experiencing
Next is the reflexive push back from the masses, followed by the wealthy funding fascism to stay in power and never have to work again. (
wrong devalued currency
You must be a Trump ass kisser.@@CmdrSoCal
@@CmdrSoCalWrong, quit with these tired comments diverting attention away from the real issues
@CmdrSoCal no, he's right. The currency is being debased too.... but most of what we are experiencing at the grocery store is unchecked and unfettered GREED!!!!
Man I work at a movie theater that buys mostly from Mars and now we have Pringles, Cheez-Its and what now. Fucking depressing why we have them now
It is wrong in every way, that being said I my family do not eat that garbage. Snickers had no chocolate, made from nothing but oil, dyes, chemicals.
Kroger's was just rated as #1 for having the worst grocery stores in Ohio, IN, MI.
Who was number one for best?
Just boycott all that junk food and grow a garden. If nobody buys it they'll be forced to lower prices.
They are already way too expensive .
The more prices rise on junk food the less i will eat. Its a win win for me and my health . But a lose lose proposition for this company when enough consumers like me stop buying their products.
If your snack food comes in a package and is comprised of over 10 unpronounceable ingredients, corporations are doing you a favor by raising the price, hopefully right out of your price range. Buy some apples. Buy some grapes. Buy some raw, unsalted nuts. Save some money and live longer. Eat real food.
great advice
And buy in season from local producers!
Apples contain chlorogenic acid, quercetin, phlorizin, asparagine, and pantothenic acid.
Just because you don't recognize a chemical name doesn't mean its not real food or its bad.
Fear the unknown! Wooooo!
@@Alsry1 I agree with what I think you're trying to say, but the only ingredient in an apple is apple. And I hope people avoid buying packaged apple, because the packaging is entirely unnecessary.
OMG... I just found this channel and I'm THANKFUL!!!
Didn’t really buy them before but now I will make a point not to buy them…
I simply do not buy snack anymore, healthier AND wealthier now
*Chocolate bars are already HALF the size they use to be a decade ago: Soon, they’ll be the size of one of those Halloween mini bars!*
AREN'T THEY ALREADY THAT SMALL?
And they'll call it "Family size".
An they do not taste as good as they did years ago.
And they snuck in removing some mini bars and printing the amount and weight in the side of the packaging where no one can read it. I hate the shorter toilet paper roll we have to change more often. Thinking of switching to Japanese roll with a much smaller inner roll and very thin metal spindle
There’s no reason you should buy any of these products anyway
1. They are tasty
2. They are cheap
3. They are convenient
I just found 3 reasons. Could be more.
@@ThootenTootinTabootin there are plenty of tasty, cheap and convenient foods where you aren’t giving money soulless corporations that will give you chronic health conditions in the future
So true. You can do just fine with bulk purchased dried legumes and whole grains cooked with a combination of garden fresh and store bought vegetables. There are also store brand offerings that are of comparable quality at much lower cost than these national brands.
You can spend $10 dollars a day easily and have fresh meat, vegetables and fruit from local farms…
Luckily we still have buying power! I'll never buy another product of theirs again.
Corporate consolidation has never worked out for the consumer. Look at airlines, they've just gotten crappier, more expensive, and now run off a concept of making people uncomfortable while having them pay more to ease up on the discomfort.
Damn, I'll have to start eating real food.
some prefer starvation over real food
Helps us save money now and in the long run. We wont have as many health issues and medical bills if eat healthier now.
"Real food" has the same problem. Remember how expensive eggs got? There was no reason for that except greed.
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Wow, check out mr fancy pants with his "real" food. We all eating soylent green out here, it's all we can afford.
And you thought capitalism led to more competition.
Was about to ask, “how does consolidation into one giant, monopoly-like corporation INCREASE consumer choices?
They've been doing this for years
Not all monopolies are the same. Standard Oil was able to control its prices because oil was basically a necessity during that time period. Most of this food is not. Stop paying for this garbage ultra-processed food and I promise you, the price will go down, or the quality will go up. Vote with your dollar.
Isn't it amazing that the public education system isn't providing the education and the critical thinking required to make rational decisions ?
Stop victim shaming and realize that it's the result of a carefully crafted system that goes far beyond than the choice made every few year by the electorate. Especially, given the fact that people can only choose to elect the best of two evils.
People, who like you, see themselves as being above the crowd without committing to any grassroot social actions are the worst of enemies of the victim of the system.
You're nothing more than a liberal.
You are right, but it doesn't really matter. This will happen to any commodity that people want. It doesn't really matter if it's a necessity or not (unless the government steps in). People want these snacks, the companies know it, so they'll raise the prices. Of course they'll come down if they become unpopular but the exact same thing will then just happen to whatever replaces it. There will always be something that people want and companies will clamor to buy up all the shelf space at the store for that object so they can control the prices and there's nothing we can do about it.
Price will go up and quality will go down. i don't know what your thinking.
@@theshi3152 Not if consumers stop buying them.
@@airplaneB3N yea that's not really how that works.
They just need to enforce the laws on the books & block these fucking mergers
Or impose acquisition taxes.
no laws on the books against mergers. now unions striking demanding higher pay is extortion. so lets enforce that law.
@@RextheRebel theyll add it to price you pay like the 20 other taxes you voted for
@@SgtJoeSmith well it would be a disincentive to merge or acquire another company in the first place, making your argument moot.
@@RextheRebel what? Quite the opposite. Double revenue and eliminate 30% of jobs as overlap. It's a perfect way to cut costs
In the end it's pretty simple, a brand is nothing more than the goodwill it creates. When these brands keep jacking their rates for no good reason, it decreases the goodwill and people go elsewhere, brand be damned. Why do you think Aldi's and Trader Joe's are so busy right now.
They can have them they're not good for us.
It should be illegal to sell shelf space, it's too similar to collusion between verticals. This merger would be okay if supermarkets were limited to having relationships with suppliers like every healthily-competitive industry where the supplier is not also a marketing customer at the same time.
If you can’t go without those foods then you have a problem.
Eat less, lose weight, lowered healthcare cost. Wins all around.
Corporate greed.
union greed
employee greed
@@SgtJoeSmith HAHAHHA
@SgtJoeSmith tf? You understand they raise prices on everything, union or not you bafoon.
Knows no bounds
@@SgtJoeSmith Found the corpo bootlicker
As a non-american citizen (Iraqi citizen), I think that am blessed with my country's low-cost for everything 😅❤
Theyve been doing this since at least 1980. The age when i started having divide my precious coins into purchase decisions.
"Food"
What they're pushing isn't food
Sales are also slipping because the prices are already too high
How is this not a monopoly?
Because they lobby the government
It’s classified as a “merger,” which allows it to exist without antitrust laws by jumping through legal processions and “approvals” to be allowed.
“Approval” happens when company representatives cut deals with politicians in the background. Essentially, the politician gets some kind of kickbacks (such as cash, endorsement, or company stock) in return for the politician supporting and voting for the merger.
It’s “technically” not a monopoly because it could “technically” have competition. But the competition is either a small company with a niche market that poses no serious threat, the other “major” player (such as Coke vs Pepsi) or doesn’t exist.
So there’s no serious threat to their business, and therefore no reason to actually offer a fair price to consumers.
The consumer has little to no choice but to pay any amount for the good or service; the only option is to choose NOT to buy the product, but people have to eat so that will only get you so far.
Buying generic brands such as great value can help with the price, a little, but there’s just not much you can do anymore. Price gouging has destroyed the working class.
They are just helping me not buy them.
Same here. You price me out, I'm out.
I try to avoid anything Nestle. It's becoming a challenge. They're the biggest F&B company in the world. Had to quit Blue Bottle Coffee ffs.
I boycott n
i wonder if they think we just have infinite money to give them...
Genuinely they do.
Nah you got to feed their dark souls
Nah, they just know we can't not buy food, this is hostage taking pure and simple. We need to take collective action on this one and vote in new governements across the gobe that will punish harshly this kind of behaviour.
im late 40s and bought maybe 20 candy bars in my life. back when they were 25 cents as kid in 80s i didnt think it was worth it and rather save my money for legos or something else. you people act like your life depends on a daily candy bar
@@shorgoth you call that food? hostage taking is what unions do when they go on strike. corporations pay the ransom and bill the customers. thats how life works
Guess I’m sticking to fruits from now on
Make sure you grow them or go to local farmers. Even organic produce uses Apeel, and it's hard or impossible to know or avoid.
@@mexifilipinahny Make sure to live in a cave and raise your own animals for food too and entirely withdraw from modern society, just to be safe.
Time to start eating natural, whole foods.
Vote with your wallet, not with your politicians
Umm also vote in the democrats. That’s the only chance you have of enforcing the antitrust laws
Then rich people can "vote" more with more money and get millions of dollars in bailout subsidies from some politicians.
Not everyone can afford to boycott much.
There are comments on critique videos of Temu that said they know Temu is bad but they couldn't afford to boycott.
Watch documentaries on obesity. There are food deserts in America. Where it mostly just has processed food and that's all some people can get.
@@Madamoizillion it can shape the food we get though, corporations do respond to spending habits. We should be 'voting' or engaging in democracy wherever, not just electoral & spending boycotts, but in our workplaces with collective bargaining, showing up for our communities & long term power at the local, state, & federal levels, direct action against strategic targets as part of ongoing campaigns, cooperative locally owned businesses, etc.
tbh their CEOs should be in jail for what they pass off as food, the inclusion of obscene amounts of sugar will go down in history as cartoonishly evil greedy scumbags, right up with the tobacco & oil industry coverups.
It’s a crime to raise prices of ingredients that have the lowest cost and have the longest shelf life.
Processed sugar is literally so cheap that all the products you see in the store are primarily made of it. It’s the bandwagon they all jumped on underneath everyone’s nose.
Time to start growing your own food.
Good luck working full time and farming enough to feed yourself.
bit of a weird question that just popped into my head after seeing the title for this.
in all these corporate chains doing the crazy price raises, have any of them considered with all the crazy price raises they are doing and the quality and prices not keeping up with people's wages, have they considered that their targeted consumers might not be able to purchase the things they're pitching at them. won't that affect their bottom line for making money and all that?
now ask that same question with how these companies suppress wages by exploiting immigration, legal and otherwise. They want your money but don't want to pay first world wages.
I very much doubt that already prices are way too high. They go any higher, and nobody will buy them
But they will buy them because they are hyperpalatable and addictive.
Nobody will be able to. Nobody but the rich people. Which is probably for the best. Definitely in our favor from a "health" standpoint 😉
Is she keeping on Lina Khan? (Apologies... spelling) She's been the most breath of fresh air I've seen in a very long time. I'm surprised she hasn't became depressed....
Inflation leads to Hyperinflation. Resistance is futile. Acceptance is the last stage and when you accept that Central Banks have caused inflation, then you can begin to heal the economy.
I live in europe and switched to aldi/lidl brand and all their knock offs years ago. I hardly ever buy 'branded' products and I don't miss them one bit.
I never liked that kind of candy as an adult. And now I have so much debt and bills, I can't afford any junk food at all. So jokes on them. I wasnt buying their crap snack food to begin with and especially not now.
This will work out for me just like Frito Lay and Coke going insane with prices during the pandemic. I simply don't buy it anymore. Can't afford it and not going to pay all that money just to have worse health.
Perfect time to stop eating them.
If this is what takes for you to stop buying them, then you’ve already lost in life
Kamala had 3.5 years to do something.
I'm voting Trump 2024🇺🇸
I'm doing everything I can to be as food independent as possible. Now I have more reason, thanks greedy corporate pricks.
Another reason to ween ourselves off of highly processed corporate food-like-substances! Oh wait, the grocery store industry is consolidating too. As are grocery distributors. And the farms! I guess we should start growing what we can!
American foods have become such trash. Just loaded with fillers, chemicals, and everything bad. Nothing tastes like I remember it tasting years ago. I don't buy any American packaged foods or snacks. I tend to buy European brands of snack foods. You can find European brands that are still made with just a few NATURAL ingredients. As an example, I buy some hazelnut cookies that have about 6 ingredients. A similar American-made product would have about 40 ingredients, most you wouldn't even be able to pronounce.
Hey genius, the oxygen you breathe is a fucking chemical; that word isn't some scary boogeyman 😂
I just picture two corporate pigs making sad puppy dog eyes, that we don't want to pay for worse & less.
I don't agree with the "won't lose customers."
What better time to drop the trash & eat healthier?
If we all walk away, they fall.
@@hermitonthelake This makes it so important to un-brainwash our brainwashed folks and have some sanity and peace. Vote blue
@@hermitonthelake
That isn't food. Stop eating it.
@@jtoolr Right along the lines of "Just don't do drugs" and just as effective and thoughtful.
@filonin2 No decent person says, "Don't do drugs."
There are support groups to eat better. They started in the US and 1 started in Canada. Overeaters Anonymous, etc. The solution is spiritual, regardless of religion
This is good news!! I've been waiting for something like this to happen. Finally an incentive for people to stop buying this garbage!
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Maybe don't eat the highly processed bioengineered to be addictive snacks that often contain carcinogens that correlate to a rise in chronic illness rates?
Talk about being charged multiple times over for the same snack after considering the possible healthcare costs 10-20 years down the road from the chronic illnesses.
Is it really worth it to consistently eat these things?
Raise the prices, reduce the amount of product per item. Rinse, wash, repeat.
Restrict slotting practices by law. Some jurisdictions already do that, so it at least wouldn't be unprecedented.
Stop buying those unhealthy snacks & over processed food…
Not food just empty expensive calories!!!!
I should add that Kellanova owns Kellogg's cereals outside of North America. Kellogg's North American cereal business went to W.K. Kellogg, the other spinoff of the former Kellogg Company. Mars' KIND brand has a presence in the cereal aisle with granola. Did you hear that Campbell Soup Company is changing to The Campbell's Company, reflecting its diversification beyond soup (which they've had for years with Pepperidge Farm, etc.)?
Only in America do people complain about the high price of junk food and then complain about the price of insulin. I mean, unless you have Type 1, you did it to yourself. Maybe this will actually be a good thing to make highly processed and sugary junk food less desirable. A 5 pound bag of Envy apples is only $5 at Kroger this week...
I was going into this with an open mind after hearing how much Mars can control, but I can't take it seriously when they've ended their point with a political candidate who's not even in the office as president; it makes it seem (even if it's not) like an advert for that person.
Reduce there 'stomach share', to ZERO!!!
On the positive side, everything they make is really bad for you
I'll be honest, I don't really care about junk. I'm more worried about the rising prices of real food.
Real food until Monsanto/Gates own the patents on everything left that grows...
Mr. Monsanto is Biden/Kamala Ag secretary.
@@oculartremorsThat's funny because millions of people grow their own corn every year without dealing with patent laws.
@@homelessalcoholic2716 But you have to admit there are also fewer and fewer independent farmers as time goes on and land gets sold. These corps are increasingly trying to shut that whole thing down in the USA.
@oculartremors Right but that's not even what you were originally saying. First you say they have actual patents, now you're calling it a hostile takeover, let's pick one and use the scientific method to prove it
Gotta say, chocolate bars seemingly havent gone up in price in a decade. Can still get them for a buck at the grocery store. Everything else though, i swear they've increased the price every 6 months the last 4 years.
Wonder how overpriced chocolate bars are in the first place... Ghana in Africa produces most of the cocoa and is paid almost nothing for it and is prohibited from producing any product with trade agreements, that's why Switzerland is so rich...and other countries...cocoa and coffee and exploitation
@@nikkijubilant Its so disgusting knowing how the cocoa trade works and how companies like Nestle and Mars can say "Look, no exploitation!" due to how they control the supply via intermediary merchants. So they can say they're all independent "Free Trade" producers, but have no control on what pricing they can get. These companies only know how to exploit and deceive.
You know that empty space in the chip packet, those chips went to the shareholders.
Idea ! Implement mandatory elementary through high school classes to teach economics ...
The Price from farm to table economics. What it takes who decides and how it ends up on the shelf!
Good. Let this ultra processed crap get more expensive. Americans need to eat less anyway!
Stop the fearmongering, "processed" doesn't mean what you think it means and you're embarrassing yourself. Protein powder is one of the most processed food items in all of human history, but it's LITERALLY just the macro-nutrient of protein that has been processed into a powderized form.
I'll show them! I'll just stop buying that crap and get healthier while saving some money.
And you really think Kamala will do something? Biden didn't, why would she?
People who believe Kamala are so sweet¡ Naive but sweet.
Just stop buying that crap!
Let me be clear - processed & ULTRA processed food is killing us .... slowly, but..what if we voted with our dollar?!
I loathe monopolies & especially Food monopolies based on hi-jacking our brains based on sugar/fat -something we are hard-wired to want based on evolution mind you.
Personally, once I realized how badly I'd been manipulated with these brands SINCE BIRTH I got pissed & my Want for snacks & sweets OUTWEIGHED my HATRED for sticking it to them with my wallet vs. their bottom line. JUST VOTE with YOUR DOLLAR
Protein powder is killing people? Sorry about your low IQ score 😂
Cool I stopped eating all those.versa, That control only applies to those with no self control.
Worst case...don't eat these highly processed foods and be healthier and live longer
How, when the healthier food costs even more? You won't live very long without food.
Processed doesn't mean what you think it means 😂
Disgusting how expensive everything is, yet there are so many food recalls recently. Paying highest price for trash essentially.
End of times
I've reduced my meat and processed foods consumption by 90% since the greedflation started, my wallet and belly are the happiest ever
I hope it gets so expensive people wont want to buy it. It will just make people more healthier.
If you're out of college or older than 12 and still eating this kind of food often, you need to stop.
Can we stop this?
I stopped buying brand name snack foods 2 years ago.