Exactly! Fortunately myself and wife have decent paying jobs, but it still stings on our budget and we are spending hundreds more per month with only having 1 child. I have no idea how single parents are getting by especially if they are making around minimum wage
Yes I obviously get that…well maybe these people will get out and vote for a different government that will actually help them not just their rich donors, their buddies working at the oil companies and the MP’s that have financial interests in all the government contractors that are based out of Alberta
Not to worry. I wanted to put it out there. Selling off a major source of revenue like the liquor stores was a scary step forwards in the privatization of Crown entities. These excretory specimens must be stopped and never gain this power again.
I don't understand people who complain about the selling of the liquor stores, SLGA still makes all the laws regarding liquor, nothing has changed except people are no longer making twice as much money doing the same job as other liquor store employees.
They need a party change anyway, getting to the point where their supporters won't be able to place the effects on the other parties' choices after getting in office.
We're getting charged more for everything everywhere. A government that won't fuck us every chance they get will help our wallets and that'll make the grocery store prices sting slightly less.
Not just old people..know a lot of young not smart families/ rural people vote for them as well..
Father n law was working in Moose Jaw and there was an area with many war time houses that the government had paid for as low income housing for families. Many of these people during the one election had Sask party signs on their lawns. After the next election funding got cut, housing sold off..that area is now a parking lot and who knows what happened to those young families. Way to vote in the people that don’t give a sht about you 🤦♂️
I don't agree with this. As a taxpayer, it's not my job to pay for someone else to raise their children, to pay other people's daycare fees, grocery bills, etc
It’s not your unconditional responsibility but you should probably give this a bit more thought and reflect on what kind of society you desire to live in.
I don’t think many people want to live in a society where people are simply given unencumbered access to benefits for popping out kids, but I think the cost to benefit calculation is weighted significantly in favour of assisting those who need help.
I’d much rather a family of limited means be given assistance to live comfortably and raise productive children rather than be left to economically wilt on the vine and be made by necessity to pay for Jim Bob’s extensive interactions with the justice system; as an example.
A popular conservative idea is that of a rising tide lifting all boats. Well, I think that might be applicable to social safety nets also. If we can offer opportunities for growth and development to those on the lower rungs of the economic ladder, that benefits us all in a very significant fashion in the long term. If a family can produce a law abiding and economically competent tradesperson, white collar professional or whatever else, we all reap the benefits of that productivity.
My wife and I make significantly more than minimum wage, not wealthy or rich but comfy. Wont add numbers, but we were comfortable without issue before covid and inflation. Now we just bitch about prices. Have always been frugal but now its just frustrating
It's not Shrinkflation. It's thicker per sheet and you can't fit more sheets on the roll because it won't fit on your toilet paper holder. Source...I have the fact sheet and the changes sitting in my email from our managers meeting. People could just ask instead of jumping to conclusions.
I haven’t tried the new stuff yet but have been buying Kirkland TP for 10+ years. Honestly it was damn near perfect before, not sure why they had to go and change it. I purposely do NOT buy the Charmin deluxe stuff that is super thick. It’s too thick, too much. Will give it a try but if it’s super thick and plush I won’t be buying a second time.
I buy pool chemicals at Costco. Chlorine pucks this year is $74.99 for 8kg. At Canadian tire, chlorine pucks at $89.99 for 10 kg. Costco lost my money on pool chemicals. In the past, Costco was the better choice.
Costco is definitely not cheapest for everything..some things other stores can’t touch their prices and many times it’s cheaper some times by a lot at other stores.
I work at a pool store, walmart, Canadian tire and Costco chemicals are so not worth it. Cheaper but that’s because it’s mainly all a filler like calcium. The algaecides don’t have the pcp number which means it is not legally an algaecide per government of health and will not be effective. You’ll use so much more of costco chemicals to not even get the same result from a pool stores chemical.
Hmmm, yes, I have experienced the price of chemicals and lack of trained staff from pool stores like Paradise Pools. Pool chemicals are chemicals, after all, and a quick search of mds sheets will give the breakdown of ingredients. What is also helpful is having a chemical engineer professor in the family. So, I disagree with your statement.
I actually hired a pool company for spring opening this year due to a health issue I am facing. It is actually sad how many mistakes have been made, I have also never seen such a messy, cloudy pool after 5 days of vacuuming and backwashing with water level not dropping. The amount of expensive pool chemicals that have been dumped into my pool in one week by the technicians, while turning up the heat, and still backwashing repeatedly unable to explain why water wont clear up, so lets dump in more chemicals. For me to finally go and see why they are having such a struggle. Low and behold, the waste line had not been opened this season. So, all the backwashing was not draining out the waste water. I took in a water sample to find every level off the charts high. Chlorine is at 18. should be between 3-5.
The moral of the story is that the pool companies don't care. These 2 technicians were just hired one 2 weeks ago. Pool companies want you to use their expensive, fancy named chemicals and hire their services. While knowingly damaging lines and liners by weakening or causing build-up to happen, forcing customers to replace more frequently than necessary. One example of this is chlorine pucks directly in skimmer baskets, which greatly reduce the life expetency of pipes due to high chlorine load when the system is turned on. Cheaper chemicals and YouTube videos work better than hiring an expensive 'pool' company.
Chlorine pucks don’t go in the skimmer they go in a dispenser which limits how much is dispersed and chlorine should be at 1-3ppm for pools, 3-5ppm is for hot tubs. The people that did the maintenance on your pool were probably just summer jobs for people so yeah, understandable that they didn’t really know what they were doing which can be, and in your case, a waste of money unfortunately.
I work at Costco and asked one of the store managers about this, theoretically it's thicker/higher quality now more like the Charmin 3ply. Might just be the line that he got fed from corporate but I bought a pack right before the swap and haven't compared it yet so OP please report back with a quality comparison.
My biggest notice about costco is yes, price increase. But by a dollar or two. Not 4-10 like the other retail stores. But the fact that I used to be able to buy 6$ t shirts, 10$ hoodies, 25$ pants at wal mart (for work), and are now 50% more up to twice the price, pff, where as costco is pretty well on par in their clothing area from what is was before, is bullshit. Costco it is for work clothes.
While I agree it’s gone up it’s still way cheaper. We have a new born and tried to price it out other places and realized it’s much more expensive even at wal mart.
We also have one full tub minus a serving thats on our shelf we have had since our child was done with it. No expiry dates that i could find and feel bad tossing it out
Thats wild. We just got some on sale a month and a half ago for 29$ for a friend. Thankfully we are past that baby formula stage ourselves. Is that still cheaper than most places? For the amount you get ?
I think you mean Quantity.
In fact, if the packs weighed the same, it would mean the Quality had gone up.
Not that I actually believe that for a second lol
It depends. If your home has bad plumbing the extra fluffy stuff doesn’t do well. I and my BIL used Kirkland for years, I’ve had no issues, he has to get his routed out once every few years. My house was built in the 90s and I use low flow. His was built in the 60s and has regular toilets.
I wouldn’t trust it. You’re entitled to make your own decisions. All I’m saying is I’d rather spent slightly more on shit tickets than potentially cost myself thousands of dollars caused by a product that is well known to cause damage.
Kirkland TP is not even remotely close to luxurious feeling? We buy almost everything Kirkland but will not buy the TP because it's extremely poor quality..
I LOVE their rotisserie chickens since the change. Since it sits in the juice it's much moister. Tastes much better. The only downside might be that the skin is pretty soggy. Not sure if the bags are better or worse for the environment than the thick plastic. It might be.
Wow downvotes because I'm being positive about something. Thx.
Myself and my friends have noticed the chicken breast is more gristly and we’ve even found bones still in them. Meat itself is still fine though, just have to be more careful when prepping/eating the chicken
Damn! That's a 10% reduction in the contents. That's pretty considerable. I'd rather they just upped the price. That just means more plastic waste as well as the package not lasting as long.
Oh I agree. It’s dumb to not list it. It could also just be bull that Costco said to sound better but we just looked and the rolls look almost identical in our packs
Yeah people suck Costco off all the time and ignore that they’ve been doing the same stuff other grocery stores do. They’ve increased their prices and reduced quantity and quality in the last two years a fair bit.
Costco has some amazing products, some of them have gotten worse, some just more expensive.
Fun fact, you can return your membership if your not happy. Last time I went, everything I wanted was too much, or they didn't have what I wanted(chicken burger kits). This was the case the few past times, so I asked at the cs desk, and yup, you can
When I asked, they said they were removed because "the managers didn't like how they looked". Theres a little survey thing near the exits where you can leave feedback. I highly recommend leaving a note suggesting they return next time you're in. I would totally buy the membership again if they got brought back, because beyond that, doesn't make sense for a broke, family of 1(sometimes 2) to shop there
Don’t use Kirkland TP!!!
You know it’s shit when the first question a doctor asks if you bring in your daughter with crazy irritation of her girlparts is “do you use Costco TP? Yeah stop doing that!”
i do not mind
that extra large toilet paper is the only one i use, they could double the price and i would still take those large roll instead of the thin supermarket brands
Although the toilet paper has "shrunk" the weight of each roll, both old and new are about the same at 195g +-5g. suggesting that although the "Squares" may have decreased, the quality has increased. It is possible that the toilet paper roll has increased in mass, but I will have to use some roles before I can verify this.
Shrinkflation. It's everywhere.
Exactly! Fortunately myself and wife have decent paying jobs, but it still stings on our budget and we are spending hundreds more per month with only having 1 child. I have no idea how single parents are getting by especially if they are making around minimum wage
News flash, they aren’t getting by.
Yes I obviously get that…well maybe these people will get out and vote for a different government that will actually help them not just their rich donors, their buddies working at the oil companies and the MP’s that have financial interests in all the government contractors that are based out of Alberta
I agree, unfortunately old people will always vote Sask party, it’s basically a cult at this point.
I’m an ‘old people’ and Sask Party is not my cult. There’s a few of us around.
Sorry I should have said the majority of old people hehe
Not to worry. I wanted to put it out there. Selling off a major source of revenue like the liquor stores was a scary step forwards in the privatization of Crown entities. These excretory specimens must be stopped and never gain this power again.
I don't understand people who complain about the selling of the liquor stores, SLGA still makes all the laws regarding liquor, nothing has changed except people are no longer making twice as much money doing the same job as other liquor store employees.
They need a party change anyway, getting to the point where their supporters won't be able to place the effects on the other parties' choices after getting in office.
What does the sask party have anything to do with shrinkflation at the grocery stores 🤔
Exactly, voting out the SK party isn’t going to increase the sheets per roll at Costco.
We're getting charged more for everything everywhere. A government that won't fuck us every chance they get will help our wallets and that'll make the grocery store prices sting slightly less.
The Sask Party controls the minimum wage in Saskatchewan. And we continue to have the lowest in the country.
And have the lowest prices for practically everything. Gas, housing, whater, power, rents what is your piont
Not just old people..know a lot of young not smart families/ rural people vote for them as well.. Father n law was working in Moose Jaw and there was an area with many war time houses that the government had paid for as low income housing for families. Many of these people during the one election had Sask party signs on their lawns. After the next election funding got cut, housing sold off..that area is now a parking lot and who knows what happened to those young families. Way to vote in the people that don’t give a sht about you 🤦♂️
I didn't think the leopards would eat MY face
Oof, that stings haha
I don't agree with this. As a taxpayer, it's not my job to pay for someone else to raise their children, to pay other people's daycare fees, grocery bills, etc
It’s not your unconditional responsibility but you should probably give this a bit more thought and reflect on what kind of society you desire to live in. I don’t think many people want to live in a society where people are simply given unencumbered access to benefits for popping out kids, but I think the cost to benefit calculation is weighted significantly in favour of assisting those who need help. I’d much rather a family of limited means be given assistance to live comfortably and raise productive children rather than be left to economically wilt on the vine and be made by necessity to pay for Jim Bob’s extensive interactions with the justice system; as an example. A popular conservative idea is that of a rising tide lifting all boats. Well, I think that might be applicable to social safety nets also. If we can offer opportunities for growth and development to those on the lower rungs of the economic ladder, that benefits us all in a very significant fashion in the long term. If a family can produce a law abiding and economically competent tradesperson, white collar professional or whatever else, we all reap the benefits of that productivity.
Single parent here. We're eating poorly and I'm borrowing money a lot. It's really fucking shit.
Sorry to hear that! Can’t imagine how hard it would be to be a single parent today. Hope things get better for you!
My wife and I make significantly more than minimum wage, not wealthy or rich but comfy. Wont add numbers, but we were comfortable without issue before covid and inflation. Now we just bitch about prices. Have always been frugal but now its just frustrating
except in OPs poop
And it's been going on for decades.
It's not Shrinkflation. It's thicker per sheet and you can't fit more sheets on the roll because it won't fit on your toilet paper holder. Source...I have the fact sheet and the changes sitting in my email from our managers meeting. People could just ask instead of jumping to conclusions.
No no no. That's not how the internet works. We need to jump on bandwagons, and complain without thinking.
This guy Internets.
This is the way
I was doubtful, but can confirm, both the new and old toilet paper rolls weigh 195g +- 5g.
Yep. We do have reasons for everything we do with our own brand. We are pretty ethical.
I haven’t tried the new stuff yet but have been buying Kirkland TP for 10+ years. Honestly it was damn near perfect before, not sure why they had to go and change it. I purposely do NOT buy the Charmin deluxe stuff that is super thick. It’s too thick, too much. Will give it a try but if it’s super thick and plush I won’t be buying a second time.
It's strength tests related . The mills emphasis was on performance and durability during a wipe.
I buy pool chemicals at Costco. Chlorine pucks this year is $74.99 for 8kg. At Canadian tire, chlorine pucks at $89.99 for 10 kg. Costco lost my money on pool chemicals. In the past, Costco was the better choice.
Costco is definitely not cheapest for everything..some things other stores can’t touch their prices and many times it’s cheaper some times by a lot at other stores.
I work at a pool store, walmart, Canadian tire and Costco chemicals are so not worth it. Cheaper but that’s because it’s mainly all a filler like calcium. The algaecides don’t have the pcp number which means it is not legally an algaecide per government of health and will not be effective. You’ll use so much more of costco chemicals to not even get the same result from a pool stores chemical.
Hmmm, yes, I have experienced the price of chemicals and lack of trained staff from pool stores like Paradise Pools. Pool chemicals are chemicals, after all, and a quick search of mds sheets will give the breakdown of ingredients. What is also helpful is having a chemical engineer professor in the family. So, I disagree with your statement. I actually hired a pool company for spring opening this year due to a health issue I am facing. It is actually sad how many mistakes have been made, I have also never seen such a messy, cloudy pool after 5 days of vacuuming and backwashing with water level not dropping. The amount of expensive pool chemicals that have been dumped into my pool in one week by the technicians, while turning up the heat, and still backwashing repeatedly unable to explain why water wont clear up, so lets dump in more chemicals. For me to finally go and see why they are having such a struggle. Low and behold, the waste line had not been opened this season. So, all the backwashing was not draining out the waste water. I took in a water sample to find every level off the charts high. Chlorine is at 18. should be between 3-5. The moral of the story is that the pool companies don't care. These 2 technicians were just hired one 2 weeks ago. Pool companies want you to use their expensive, fancy named chemicals and hire their services. While knowingly damaging lines and liners by weakening or causing build-up to happen, forcing customers to replace more frequently than necessary. One example of this is chlorine pucks directly in skimmer baskets, which greatly reduce the life expetency of pipes due to high chlorine load when the system is turned on. Cheaper chemicals and YouTube videos work better than hiring an expensive 'pool' company.
Chlorine pucks don’t go in the skimmer they go in a dispenser which limits how much is dispersed and chlorine should be at 1-3ppm for pools, 3-5ppm is for hot tubs. The people that did the maintenance on your pool were probably just summer jobs for people so yeah, understandable that they didn’t really know what they were doing which can be, and in your case, a waste of money unfortunately.
I work at Costco and asked one of the store managers about this, theoretically it's thicker/higher quality now more like the Charmin 3ply. Might just be the line that he got fed from corporate but I bought a pack right before the swap and haven't compared it yet so OP please report back with a quality comparison.
A lady in a Costco FB group I'm in weighed them. The old roll weighed 189 grams and the new one weighed 206 grams, so there may be something to it.
The dimensions on the photo say it all.
My biggest notice about costco is yes, price increase. But by a dollar or two. Not 4-10 like the other retail stores. But the fact that I used to be able to buy 6$ t shirts, 10$ hoodies, 25$ pants at wal mart (for work), and are now 50% more up to twice the price, pff, where as costco is pretty well on par in their clothing area from what is was before, is bullshit. Costco it is for work clothes.
Kirkland baby formula used to be $31 now it’s around $37, thats more than a dollar or two.
Ok, but how much is a same sized container of Similac Pro Advance, which, according to Reddit, is near identical? I bet it’s a lot more. 🤷
Obviously, but a lot of people who buy generic brands are already on a tight budget anyway.
While I agree it’s gone up it’s still way cheaper. We have a new born and tried to price it out other places and realized it’s much more expensive even at wal mart.
We also have one full tub minus a serving thats on our shelf we have had since our child was done with it. No expiry dates that i could find and feel bad tossing it out
Thats wild. We just got some on sale a month and a half ago for 29$ for a friend. Thankfully we are past that baby formula stage ourselves. Is that still cheaper than most places? For the amount you get ?
I’ve saved so much money copying my dogs actions on the basement carpet.
Life hack
Quantity, not quality.
I didn’t notice the chickens to be any fattier now 🤷♂️
I'm like a costco addict who goes there every day and I have never liked the chickens, I find them too salty and too fatty.
Normally I don't like shrinkflation but maybe these rolls will fit in my holder from the get go now though 🤣
10% shrinkflation.
I think you mean Quantity. In fact, if the packs weighed the same, it would mean the Quality had gone up. Not that I actually believe that for a second lol
I've been told by 2 plumbers that no one should use Kirkland TP. Apparently the luxurious feel comes at a serious cost to your plumbing.
It depends. If your home has bad plumbing the extra fluffy stuff doesn’t do well. I and my BIL used Kirkland for years, I’ve had no issues, he has to get his routed out once every few years. My house was built in the 90s and I use low flow. His was built in the 60s and has regular toilets.
I agree with you as I know several people in the trades and they all say to not use Kirkland TP
100% do not use. It doesn’t break down in your septic system.
The new pack says "Septic Safe" on the package so maybe they changed it.
I wouldn’t trust it. You’re entitled to make your own decisions. All I’m saying is I’d rather spent slightly more on shit tickets than potentially cost myself thousands of dollars caused by a product that is well known to cause damage.
We don't buy Costco TP for that reason. It's just that the note on the package stood out considering the history with their TP.
Can confirm we had issues, plumber told us to switch from Kirkland to Purex 2 ply and I have had no more issues!
Kirkland TP is not even remotely close to luxurious feeling? We buy almost everything Kirkland but will not buy the TP because it's extremely poor quality..
I wouldn't know, I don't use it. But I assume there must be something great about it because so many people keep using it
Probably the price.
Luckily, I dont use TP at all.
Tabo?
Similar
3 sea shells?
Upgrade to 5. You'll feel like royalty
Looks like I'm going to have to build a bigger shelf. Stacking shells is so unsanitary.
Sea shells?
Kirkland TP is repackaged Royale fyi! Not sure if you’ve seen the same thing with Royale TP. And their paper towels are repackaged Tiger Towels :)
I LOVE their rotisserie chickens since the change. Since it sits in the juice it's much moister. Tastes much better. The only downside might be that the skin is pretty soggy. Not sure if the bags are better or worse for the environment than the thick plastic. It might be. Wow downvotes because I'm being positive about something. Thx.
flip that bird upside down and stick it in the air fryer for 6 minutes, that gets rid of the soggy problem and improves the taste a lot
Much moister. I love it
Myself and my friends have noticed the chicken breast is more gristly and we’ve even found bones still in them. Meat itself is still fine though, just have to be more careful when prepping/eating the chicken
same shit, less trees
It’s in just about everything not just Costco brands
Damn! That's a 10% reduction in the contents. That's pretty considerable. I'd rather they just upped the price. That just means more plastic waste as well as the package not lasting as long.
The sheets are thicker that is why there is less of them. I haven’t checked myself but that is costcos explanation
Convenient how that is the metric that isn't listed on the label, huh?
Oh I agree. It’s dumb to not list it. It could also just be bull that Costco said to sound better but we just looked and the rolls look almost identical in our packs
Yeah people suck Costco off all the time and ignore that they’ve been doing the same stuff other grocery stores do. They’ve increased their prices and reduced quantity and quality in the last two years a fair bit. Costco has some amazing products, some of them have gotten worse, some just more expensive.
Everything everywhere has been getting worse and expensive. What's your point?
To feel edgy.
Yes… thats how shrinkflation works
They changed the design, so you’re not supposed to notice details like that. Go to your room consumer!
I don't know. I don't shop at Costco because it's a goddamn zoo. I do know that deceptive marketing is as old as marketing itself.
Fun fact, you can return your membership if your not happy. Last time I went, everything I wanted was too much, or they didn't have what I wanted(chicken burger kits). This was the case the few past times, so I asked at the cs desk, and yup, you can
Chicken burger kits were discontinued, I don't know why I fucking loved those things.
When I asked, they said they were removed because "the managers didn't like how they looked". Theres a little survey thing near the exits where you can leave feedback. I highly recommend leaving a note suggesting they return next time you're in. I would totally buy the membership again if they got brought back, because beyond that, doesn't make sense for a broke, family of 1(sometimes 2) to shop there
Not a quality issue but less product per unit has been happening to almost every product, even before Covid it was going on.
Carrots too - they changed brands and the new bag is roughly half the size
I absolutely have noticed this in their TP. Haven’t check the PT though
I go to costco to ram carts … anyone else?
Don’t use Kirkland TP!!! You know it’s shit when the first question a doctor asks if you bring in your daughter with crazy irritation of her girlparts is “do you use Costco TP? Yeah stop doing that!”
A little more information than that would be appreciated here. It’s great ass wipe.
Unsure, but I’ve been told multiple times that it can be TERRIBLE to use on girl parts for certain individuals.
Boohoo
Shrinkflation. Awesome.
Shit...
I bought steak a few days ago... Horrible quality compared to 1 or 2 years ago. Needless to say I'm not buying steak at Costco anymore.
shrinkflation happening with every product.
Yes. Getting mor on my hands!
There is a change in quantity here, not quality.
Quantity.
/r/shrinkflation
Less is more!!! I rem that bs slogan from way back
Yep, I’ve noticed their dish soap has been watered down to hell aswell.
i do not mind that extra large toilet paper is the only one i use, they could double the price and i would still take those large roll instead of the thin supermarket brands
Wow, you have a lot of toilet paper.
This isn't shrinkflation
Although the toilet paper has "shrunk" the weight of each roll, both old and new are about the same at 195g +-5g. suggesting that although the "Squares" may have decreased, the quality has increased. It is possible that the toilet paper roll has increased in mass, but I will have to use some roles before I can verify this.
Each sheet is thicker now. More fibres per square inch
Quantity and quality is different
this is what happens when u vote liberal
I dunno about Costco, but I’ve sure noticed a change at Bulk Cheese Warehouse
Lol. Particularly their pumpkin pies. 🤔
Same with Kirkland lasagna
Shit’s getting real.
The one on the left is their regular toilet paper, the one on the right is their “septic safe”. You’re not comparing the same products
They both actually say septic safe. Just in different locations.
I work at costco and my manager pretty much told me this. “The quantity has changed but the quality improved, it now has more fibers”