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.
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.
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?
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.
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.
@@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 🍀
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.
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.
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.
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.
@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!!!!
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.
Some years ago the British chocolate makers Cadbury's merged with the US company Kraft. Since then the quality of their once-iconic products has collapsed. Their iconic product Cadbury's Dairy Milk now contains far less milk than it did, replaced by artificial substitutes.
@@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.
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
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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?
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
@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
@oculartremors You mean the GMOs that have the ability to cure malnutrition through being bred to have a higher vitamin content? Oh yeah, sounds AWFUL 🙄. Organic is a scam meant to reap ignorant people of all their money because they're afraid of boogeyman terms they don't understand like GMO or processed foods. "What's the difference" glad to see you're actively contributing to the problem by not really caring that words have meaning, and that you truly believe that you can use whatever words you want because "people should know what I mean"
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 stopped eating almost all snack/junk food years ago because the prices were getting too high _then._ I question how they could raise prices any more without putting themselves out of business.
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 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.
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!
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.)?
We need to raise our voices high enough to be heard, so that several ignorant folks (who may not know anything about it) will be able to see through the lies (instead of them joining the cultists out of pure ignorance)
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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.
The system has to change, not the people running the old system. The big lie that keeps being sold is that you have a choice. You don’t, all your money goes to a dozen or so companies that all have a piece of each other
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 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.
@@TinyCryptoBlogthe currency is devalued precisely because the market allows the supply side to raise prices unchecked. If it was really just a matter of inflation, wages would be up, too.
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!
@@paulfoss5385 Yeah, it's more like an alternate timeline where the richest people of the world trick the dumbest people of the world into making them richer. Oh, wait. It's totally this timeline.
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
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
"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!
It's all to show growth on paper in industries that are slipping
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!
Protect Lina Khan!
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
@@mickael486 seems like a pretty normal comment
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!
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.
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
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.
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 🍀
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.
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.
Damn, I’m gonna have to go back to growing my own candy bars, aren’t I?
Good idea. ❤
😂
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.
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.
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.
Didn’t really buy them before but now I will make a point not to buy them…
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!!!!
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.
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
Some years ago the British chocolate makers Cadbury's merged with the US company Kraft. Since then the quality of their once-iconic products has collapsed. Their iconic product Cadbury's Dairy Milk now contains far less milk than it did, replaced by artificial substitutes.
They've been doing this for years
Just boycott all that junk food and grow a garden. If nobody buys it they'll be forced to lower prices.
😂🤣😆🤣🤣 yeah right. That’ll teach em…
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
"Food"
What they're pushing isn't food
They can have them they're not good for us.
They are already way too expensive .
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…
OMG... I just found this channel and I'm THANKFUL!!!
*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
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.
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
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?
Sales are also slipping because the prices are already too high
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.
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.
?!
Wow, check out mr fancy pants with his "real" food. We all eating soylent green out here, it's all we can afford.
Luckily we still have buying power! I'll never buy another product of theirs again.
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.
Eat less, lose weight, lowered healthcare cost. Wins all around.
I simply do not buy snack anymore, healthier AND wealthier now
Theyve been doing this since at least 1980. The age when i started having divide my precious coins into purchase decisions.
I'm doing everything I can to be as food independent as possible. Now I have more reason, thanks greedy corporate pricks.
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.
favorite treats, pure garbage, poisoning Americans. Should tax the hell out of this crap.
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 😉
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.
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.
As a non-american citizen (Iraqi citizen), I think that am blessed with my country's low-cost for everything 😅❤
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.
Just stop buying that crap!
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
Time to start eating natural, whole foods.
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.
Stop buying their goods!!!
Time to start growing your own food.
Good luck working full time and farming enough to feed yourself.
Use your power as a consumer, if don’t like the price, don’t buy. They can only increase the price if people continue to pay.
I'll be honest, I don't really care about junk. I'm more worried about the rising prices of real food.
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.
@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
@oculartremors You mean the GMOs that have the ability to cure malnutrition through being bred to have a higher vitamin content? Oh yeah, sounds AWFUL 🙄. Organic is a scam meant to reap ignorant people of all their money because they're afraid of boogeyman terms they don't understand like GMO or processed foods. "What's the difference" glad to see you're actively contributing to the problem by not really caring that words have meaning, and that you truly believe that you can use whatever words you want because "people should know what I mean"
Kamala had 3.5 years to do something.
I'm voting Trump 2024🇺🇸
Reduce there 'stomach share', to ZERO!!!
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.
Perfect time to stop eating them.
If this is what takes for you to stop buying them, then you’ve already lost in life
All that food is poison
Stop buying those unhealthy snacks & over processed food…
Not food just empty expensive calories!!!!
I stopped eating almost all snack/junk food years ago because the prices were getting too high _then._ I question how they could raise prices any more without putting themselves out of business.
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.
Can we stop this?
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 😂
I hope it gets so expensive people wont want to buy it. It will just make people more healthier.
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.
They don't get any of my money now, so it matters not to me. The higher cost is not the only thing, their products will also cost you your health.
If you can’t go without those foods then you have a problem.
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!
I've reduced my meat and processed foods consumption by 90% since the greedflation started, my wallet and belly are the happiest ever
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.)?
If you're out of college or older than 12 and still eating this kind of food often, you need to stop.
Gop told us that this would be better for consumers, they lied
We need to raise our voices high enough to be heard, so that several ignorant folks (who may not know anything about it) will be able to see through the lies (instead of them joining the cultists out of pure ignorance)
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The other bad thing, is that they'll look to recoup costs and eliminate products you love.
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 😂
Junk food is almost as addictive as cigarettes. enough people will still buy that trash no matter what the price.
And Mars/Kellanova knows that.
F corporate greed everyone hates corporate greed
The system has to change, not the people running the old system. The big lie that keeps being sold is that you have a choice. You don’t, all your money goes to a dozen or so companies that all have a piece of each other
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 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.
I stopped buying brand name snack foods 2 years ago.
Stop the merger!
And you thought capitalism led to more competition.
Was about to ask, “how does consolidation into one giant, monopoly-like corporation INCREASE consumer choices?
f the food industry... grow your own
Remember being able to go to the corner store and buy 4 bags of chips for $1 even? Now they're 2/$1 PLUS tax AND less chips.
We also have to credit a devalued currency for that as well. It's not jyst "greedy corporations. "
Air tax
@@TinyCryptoBlogthe currency is devalued precisely because the market allows the supply side to raise prices unchecked. If it was really just a matter of inflation, wages would be up, too.
Womp womp. Don't care. Chips and snacks are a luxury not a necessity.
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!
3:36 only a month old and this video already aged like milk
If by "aged like milk" you mean "remained relevant because we picked the wrong person".
@@paulfoss5385 Yeah, it's more like an alternate timeline where the richest people of the world trick the dumbest people of the world into making them richer. Oh, wait. It's totally this timeline.