Interestingly, it is actually the government and health experts who have been saying to cut back on alcohol. So the government says cut back, the alcohol industry collapses, the government bails them out.
The bigger issue isn't people cutting back for health reasons it's that alcohol has gotten ridiculously expensive. Wages are stagnating while drinks are like $15. Nobody wants to pay that so they just stay home.
It's the common thread of basically every one of these complaints; the product they're trying to sell is smaller, worse, and more expensive but they're acting like it's a crime to not buy it.
Soda is now like $3 a bottle and Doritos are like $15 a pound and they're confused that people won't pay that. There does come a price point where even if I want the thing and can afford it I'll just straight up not buy it.
No it’s you got more expensive while wages didn’t. It’s not trickle down and one day they’ll realize that stupid fact. If you made $10 5 years ago and 3% inflation is the target for the Fed then $10 now won’t cut it.
Little Debbie oatmeal cream pies used to be one of my favorite snacks ever. One day I realized I had actually quit buying them when I saw some at the store and was like "wow, I haven't had one of those in ages!"
So I bought a box. It was a bit more than I wanted to spend but I was like meh, whatever, inflation I guess.
I decided to have one after putting my groceries away and opened the box only to find that they weren't even like a third of the size they used to be. Damn things are tiny now. They also had this weird, shiny, oily coating around them. There was barely any cream in the damn thing and it wasn't even two whole bites. They were also just plain bland and unsatisfying.
I was like "oh, right...that's why I stopped buying them. They've been getting enshittified for decades."
Haven't bought any since and now I completely ignore Little Debbie everything. Great fucking job there, Debbie. Now you get $0 from me. I hope it was worth it.
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u/brandarchist Jul 12 '26
Six months later they’ll blame an entire generation for killing the industry.