French supermarket chain is using 'shrinkflation' stickers to pressure PepsiCo and other suppliers | CNN Business
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French supermarket chain Carrefour has slapped price warnings on products ranging from Lindt chocolates to Lipton Ice Tea to pressure suppliers such as Nestlé, PepsiCo and Unilever to cut their prices.

The difference between European countries and America is becoming so stark. Anyone reading or watching global news has to see how backwards this country is and that it’s only getting worse.

  • evranch
    1·
    10 months ago

    The “reusable” bags sold at supermarkets in Canada at least are really shitty. You’re lucky to get 5 uses before the handles rip off or groceries punch right through the flimsy plastic fabric.

    If you’re serious about reusing bags you buy your own well made bags, but if you forgot to bring them or made an impulse buy congratulations, you now own a set of overpriced, very low quality bags… At least you’ll be rid of them in a week or two lol

    I use them for tasks like giving away vegetables from my garden but honestly that was a fine use for the “non-reusable” bags, we reused them constantly. They even got recycled into deck boards, the new “reusable” ones just end up in the dump.

    • Astroturfed@lemmy.world
      2·
      10 months ago

      Walmart sells the shit ones that wouldn’t last in the US. Most places I go don’t. I wouldn’t buy those. Last time I went on vacation and didnt think to bring any I just didn’t use a bag and carried armfuls of groceries in instead of buying that flimsy crap.

      I don’t understand people who live in areas that don’t allow plastic bags anymore who wouldn’t think to buy some decent ones. They just go back in my car after I unload groceries and they last for years. It’s such a weird thing to not be able to handle.