Los supermercados te roban cada vez más

🥰 If you'd like to contribute to this channel, you can comment, share the videos, or support me on my Patreon:   / trendingtony   In this video about how brands have secretly changed countless products to deceive us and sell us less, I'm going to explain the three hidden strategies large corporations use to camouflage this armed robbery on a global scale being committed by brands like Oreo, Pringles, and Coca-Cola. Look, if you remove the label, there's a surprise. Also, at the end of the video, I'm going to teach you a new word (STRENGTHFLATION). Did you know that a Doritos supermarket bag used to be 150 grams and is now 140? A company spokesperson acknowledged this in this Quartz report: "Inflation is hitting everyone... we've taken a little bit out of the bag so we can give you the same price." The TRAGEDY of all this is that this air reduction has SECRETLY spread to virtually every product in the supermarket. There are only two scenarios in which a brand can afford to reduce its packaging: one, if it has a monopoly, as is the case with these sewing product packaging, or two, if you are a leading brand that everyone knows, like the legendary and miraculous Fairy, which has so much confidence that it isn't afraid to perform the MIRACLE of DOUBLING its price in about three years. For a few days, all the media in Spain talked about air reduction as if it were something new, as if it hadn't been around for years. Now, a week after the speech in the Congress of Deputies, the topic has completely disappeared from television because, evidently, all the brands I mentioned in this video belong to corporations that advertise in these same media outlets. If you're curious what happens if a country is serious about fighting redufulation, we have to look at the only one that's been doing something about it for over a year: France. Last year, the French supermarket Carrefour launched a campaign to shame products that were cheating. They put up large signs in all their stores across France indicating that the product offered less than before. Then, the French government announced that by November it would require manufacturers to indicate on their labels whether they had applied stretchflation. November arrived, and nothing happened. The decree was then postponed to July 2024. July arrived, and guess what happened? Companies have come up with a new trick: stretchflation. If you've made it this far in my video, I thank you, and I'm warning you that you're about to witness history, because I'm going to invent a word: STRETCHFLATION. Seriously, it doesn't exist yet. Remember where you heard it first. Stretching is the translation of stretchflation, a phenomenon that's only been around for a few weeks. No Spanish media outlet has covered it, and in France, very few have so far denounced this practice, which consists of offering more of a product at a proportionally higher price. In this example, we can see how some cookies that now contain 10% more product have increased their price by 29%. The French businessmen of all these mafias have now set out to hijack labels like SAVING PACK, FAMILY SIZE, or MAXI SIZE to prostitute them and empty them of meaning, giving consumers the illusion that they are buying more for less. This Time magazine article explains it very well: “If inflation falls, it means that the rate at which prices are rising is slowing, but overall it won't mean that prices are falling. “The problem is that one person's spending is another person's income… if prices fall overall across the economy, this means that people are earning less money across the economy.” In short, “a massive drop in prices, also known as deflation, would be a bad sign for the economy.” Yes, you heard right: lowering prices is uneconomical. They need to maintain these traps in order to maintain their profit margins, because if they report lower profits in one quarter than the previous quarter, investors start to get nervous. Obviously, absolutely everything increases in price over time. Look at this graph on the price increases at fast-food restaurants. I also happen to have a Carrefour catalog from 2017, a long-gone era when a liter of milk cost 60 cents. And this thing about selling us less is nothing new either. Look at this BBC graph on the change in chocolate bars compared to 2014. The difference is, of course, in the speed at which prices are raised and quantities are cut, which is directly related to the degree of greed of large corporations.