It wasn't just a disembodied voice the whole time. I want to give the man a hug. Because god dammit, Robin looks so huggable that it is frustrating.

@carbs_r_delish

10 ай бұрын

Ikr, he looks like a big teddy bear!

@MatthewConnellan-xc3oj

10 ай бұрын

He looks like a normal adult, and I like his haircut.

@Mangothecat-qc4ml

10 ай бұрын

@@MatthewConnellan-xc3oj yeah but the personality thepart really adds to the likability :3 have a good day ❤

@bric3842

10 ай бұрын

It’s the hoodie that’s making him huggable. I hope when I get mine, I’ll be equally huggable.

@Josh_the_jester

10 ай бұрын

You should see his other photos because he either looks like he wants to murder me or kidnap my firstborn son, and I'm not even married

Optimist: "The cup is half-full" Pessimist: "The cup is half-empty" Engineer: "That container is twice as large as required"

@maxhadanidea

10 ай бұрын

Pissimist: "The cup is piss"

@watsoncouch3800

10 ай бұрын

A normal ass person: the answer depends on if it was emptied to that point or filled. If filled then its half full, if emptied then half empty.

@thegoldenguy9777

10 ай бұрын

mathematician: the cup is 50% full

@Jacsmac04

10 ай бұрын

Physicist: the cup is completely full

@ohhi687itsme8

10 ай бұрын

Company: "The cup is advertised as completely full so we can scam customers"

I give props to Robin for that merch ad 🫡

@HybridTwisterVR0979

10 ай бұрын

B O O B I N

@Mizu_mila

10 ай бұрын

Same

@stuffie5175

10 ай бұрын

Cool profile pic

@rioterbot

10 ай бұрын

boobin da bestie ❤

@HybridTwisterVR0979

10 ай бұрын

@@stuffie5175 mine or?-

Protip: Always always ALWAYS turn pasta boxes, chip bags, etc with windows sideways so you can see how filled it ACTUALLY is.

@Mets2015WorldSeries

10 ай бұрын

If it’s pasta (which it usually is), you can also check the weight instead of how full it is as some shapes/cuts of the dough are longer and don’t take up that much space horizontally. The average box is 1 pound

@AIHumanEquality

10 ай бұрын

Chip bags require a certain amount of air in them for pressure. If they filled them up to the top you'd have a lot more crushed chips and stale chips. They're not just being cheap. Other things like pasta boxes there's no excuse other than maybe a serving requirement but here in Canada I've never seen a package of pasta that's less than 75% filled.

@pjwhite6829

10 ай бұрын

@@AIHumanEquality They only require 20% air, though. They just put a lot more than they need to save money. Which, ironically results in more broken chips. We did an experiment in middle school about it and after 25% air by volume the chips broke more than with only 10% air.

@AIHumanEquality

10 ай бұрын

@@pjwhite6829 I haven't noticed many chip bags with a lot of air in them but I also have started buying the round cylinders cause they're cheaper for the same amount as a bag and can be recycled. I'm in Canada not America too.

@EsotericBibleSecrets

10 ай бұрын

It's the dishonesty that bothers me the most. They aren't going to fool anyone more then once. It's just taking up more shelf space and wasting packaging. In the long run, if they would just make smaller packages, we would save gas from having less Trucks deliver stuff. It's bad for the environment, and bad for everyone. These businesses are behaving like children trying to get away with mischief.

In Germany, and I think the entire EU, it's illegal to make your product worse. As in, you can increase the price and pretend it's inflation but you can't replace an item with a smaller one for the same price

@sylverscale

10 ай бұрын

But you're allowed to hide worsening the products if you put "improved/new recipe" on the package. Every time is see that damn writing I know I'm going to hate it. 😅 Only thing that's ever improving is the profit margin.

@wilhu5903

10 ай бұрын

and what i find funny. he is saying big americans while he is showing a picture of a normale dr oetkers pizza salami. You can easily tell the difference in the crust. so why is he lying lol

@wilhu5903

10 ай бұрын

and no you can definitely make your product worse. you dont even have to say it on the packaging. i have seen multiple items go down in size without you being told so. cough hagelslag, choco pasta, cheese, store bought fries, choco milk powder. (Netherlands) but i agree new recipe means most of the time it is not as good as it used to be. looking at you dr oetkers tonno pizza. the onion ruins it :(

@AIHumanEquality

10 ай бұрын

You can't pretend it's inflation in the EU if it's not actually inflation. That's false marketing and is a regulation breach. You can raise the price and just not say anything. That is allowed. You don't need a reason to raise your prices but lying about the reason is a regulation violation. Just to be clear. That is a general international standard. Not many places don't have that kind of marketing law for very obvious reasons.

@AIHumanEquality

10 ай бұрын

@@majkenagerbo2952 No it's not. I'm Danish. Shrinkflation is not a thing here bruh. Denmark operates on a very regulated free market system. All of Scandinavia does. If you tried to pull shrinkflation you'd lose business fast in Scandinavia because of how the market is structured.

Pls let robin do a wholesome subreddit soon I think hes gonna go crazy soon

@darlenebuck431

10 ай бұрын

right? Robin either gets the infuriating subreads or strange ones, let him get wholesome ones more often.

@AIHumanEquality

10 ай бұрын

I'd go crazy too if I had to live as a non rich person in America.

@God.-.._.

5 ай бұрын

​@@AIHumanEqualityalready there, friend. Already there...

New laws: - If you reduce the size, weight, or volume of a product, you must also reduce the price of said product proportionally to the reduction in size/ weight/volume - You must clearly and honestly indicate any and all changes in normal size/weight/volume on your packaging

@TytheGhost

10 ай бұрын

But that would never get through, think of all the billionaires that will STARVE by losing an extra 2 dollars per sale

@d4n737

10 ай бұрын

This... wouldn't work because Capitalism is built on the premise that both the producer and the customer decide the price of the product. The seller can overprice the product as long as they can get away with it because people are buying it, that's their freedom, and the customer is free to not buy the product, hence denying the seller profits. Shrinking the size while keeping the same price of something is basically just selling the same amount but chainging the price so that it's higher. That's not only legal, but a completely normal part of our society and would be almost impossible to lawfully dictate without introducing socialism. It's not on the companies not to do stuff like this, it's on US, the CUSTOMERS to keep stuff like this from happening with our voice and decisions. I don't know if the US has any customer protection laws, they should, because here in Europe most people like this would get punished for predatory marketing.

@Chonts

10 ай бұрын

​@@TytheGhostikr we gotta think about the billionaires. They're people too you know

@EdyAlbertoMSGT3

10 ай бұрын

@@d4n737 I don't care, introduce socialism.

@i_am_bisexual_or_something3132

10 ай бұрын

The part of the candle that is missing always seemed to never get burned anyways

This, antiwork and that distopia subreddit, are just so depressing. i can only imagine how it must be for Boobin to narrate them. Warm hugs to you, our birb. 💙

@Salithin

10 ай бұрын

Poor breast implant ❤

@awesomestyles

10 ай бұрын

If it makes you feel better, Robin said last time he covered ABoringDystopia that he wants that subreddit to stop being chosen. Not necessarily because of his opinion on it, but because he doesn't want people following and viewing a subreddit like it.

@SayuruDabare

10 ай бұрын

America is screwed and I am all for it.

@echothefreak9396

10 ай бұрын

@@SayuruDabare?

@SayuruDabare

10 ай бұрын

Yes? If your wondering if I'm american, I'm not. I just think america has become such a cesspool of degeneracy (Sure there are still good people there) That it will inevitably fall. @@echothefreak9396

I work at an Arby’s and I can confirm that the wagyu burger is not 100% wagyu beef. I don’t remember the exact specifics but it’s more like around the 40-60% actually wagyu beef. While the rest is just straight regular ground beef. I always hated the wagyu burgers because 1) it’s straight up false advertising. 2) the prep for it was disgusting because the burgers are boiled in bags to cook them. 3) you had to fry it to basically finish the cooking process, which only made them extremely greasy.

@MacDsNuts

10 ай бұрын

According to a add I saw for them they are 51% wagyu and 49% generic ground beef so yeah it's nothing but a marketing stunt.

@stanleyhape8427

10 ай бұрын

The ad has the percentage on it.

@MacDsNuts

10 ай бұрын

@@stanleyhape8427 yes the ad I saw had the percentages in the fine print at the bottom

@flashyweiner

10 ай бұрын

I think cooking meat in bags is actually a way to cook meat

@TheStormhawkslover

10 ай бұрын

Fellow Arby's worker here! I can confirm the burgers are awful. I hope they never come back

Seeing people's faces on the internet after being faceless makes me realize I suck at guessing what people ACTUALLY look like in relation to their voices.

@owenkellogg3130

10 ай бұрын

I watched him talking, and it doesn't match the mental image I have at all. I don't think that's him. Somebody lip-synced his lines.

@frostbitedragon9

10 ай бұрын

Not really faceless cause he's actually had a youtube channel where he actively shows his face lol. Its called "xycron" Me finding robin origin story: I actually found out about it because i looked up xycron on youtube instead of twitter. Then i quickly found out this guy was not only a voice actor. But the voice of foxy in many youtube videos amd actively does voices on piemations channel. They are friends, and i think roommates? Found him about a year ago i think.

@m2pt5

10 ай бұрын

@@frostbitedragon9 Yep, he was a few voices in Suction Cup Man.

5:39 I work as a grocery store cashier, and yesterday I had a customer buying one of those goldfish boxes. As I was scanning it and watching it go toward the bagging area, I thought ‘huh, that looks a little smaller than what I’m used to eating’. I just thought I was going crazy. Thank you, Emkay, for helping me realize that I’m not insane.

With all this shrinkflation I am being left quite hungry. Maybe I'll have to eat something else. I'm seeing a lot of rich people.

@zuninona

10 ай бұрын

heard they taste like pork.

@RuSosan

10 ай бұрын

Pro tip: Such rich meat is hard to cut because it's so soft. Use a Guillotine for good, clean slices.

@purpl3grape

10 ай бұрын

If they want us to not notice food items getting smaller, we're just not going to notice some items sometimes slip by when we take the self-checkout counter. Oh yea, imagine that self-checkout is a norm wtf. But to be fair, we weren't 'trained' to be a cashier, so we sometimes we don't know how duplicate items suddenly end up in our bag. They want us not to pay attention to these small things? Fine for them especially it goes both ways.

@alosreal

10 ай бұрын

Turkish people: *laughs in sadness* For those that dont know turkey(türkiye) has so much infilation sometimes prices change daily Example: Choclate:5tl 1 month later Choclate:6tl ):

I'm poor but I'm more mad about products shrinking than getting more expensive TEMPORARY because you can always adjust prices, it's a lil harder to adjust packages. When I see a smaller package I just KNOW that i will never get the same value as before, they'll just keep making it pricier. Fuck wars and fuck inflation. Oh, and fuck big corporations. Without lube.

@purpl3grape

10 ай бұрын

Many grocery stores operate on a 'trust' system in which they trust that the shoppers will pay for their food. But since they've introduced the self-checkout isles, it's almost as if you could walk out with some additional items. They're expecting us to be the cashier, which technically they would have to train their staff, but since they've not trained us' we can simply claim oh I forgot, oh I didn't know. If they want us to not notice things going smaller, we're just not going to notice some items sometimes slip by.

@HarvestLockwood

10 ай бұрын

At my grocery store, a staff member stands there in the self-checkout aisle and watches everyone. They say they're there in case people need help. They're actually there to make sure people aren't stealing. @@purpl3grape

I want to see the narrators faces more. It was a pleasant surprise.

@MorbinNecrim86

10 ай бұрын

Considering Robin has said things like that he is weird lookin, he dont look weird to me

@SirasDemons

10 ай бұрын

I don't think Lexi shows her face, but if you wanted to see her face then she has a youtube channel where she shows it.

Never forget that it costs the company more to change their packaging setup to accommodate smaller containers than it does to just put less in it.

13:00 That's corporate for "We're just greedy and you know it so here's some irrelevant jargon to placate you"

The reason for why the shrinkflation is so common in the UK now is because: Us gents across the pond here in Great Britain are in rather a spot of bother. Our country is sailing down the river in quite the jiffy. And so so.

@Dunkelzeitgeist

10 ай бұрын

Too right, this island is fucked

@dickhead7449

10 ай бұрын

pl

@akbdawgo6396

10 ай бұрын

American translation: Our country is going to shit.

1:09 Oreo was LITERALLY SUED for their double stuff oreos not being actually double the stuffing, so they had to rename them "mega stuff" instead so as not to be false advertising. And now they're just... ignoring that? Can someone do the research, and possibly sue them again?

@AIHumanEquality

10 ай бұрын

Most people can't afford to sue mega corporations that's why government regulation should be enforced like in many other countries.

Not so fun fact, the “extra” fries that five guys puts in your bag are actually accounted for in the pricing, it’s not laziness, it’s intentional

@squirrelsinjacket1804

10 ай бұрын

lol Five Guys is crazy expensive since most things are made fresh... For a hotdog it ranges from about $5-$7 alone... you can go to Costco and get like a $2 gigantic hot dog for that (granted I understand they're sold at a loss intentionally), or literally buy a pack of 10 hot dogs at the store for less. Outside of maybe McDonalds fast food is really an awful value.

8:12 By the way, someone crunched the numbers and Spurlock actually lied about how much McDonald's food he was ordering, based on how many calories he was consuming. He didn't follow the rules he laid out at the start of the video and ordered more food than he said he would. There's a response to the movie called Fat Head which runs the numbers.

@RaptorNX01

10 ай бұрын

"Fat Head" is an amazing documentary, and highly educational (and funny). also, unlike spurlock, he actually cited his sources and put up his meal plans and such.

Its so horrible that they know we know what they are doing and we can do nothing to stop it.

@Nepter8248

10 ай бұрын

Well, you can DEFINITELY stop them with a little information and some materials. If someone had, for example, the addresses of the factory, the CEO, and maybe some of the shareholders, and then that individual showed up at said addresses to donate a few bags of fertilizer, some bottles of a few specific household chemicals, some DIY electrical switch kits, and a couple of prepaid Walmart cellphones, the heads of the parent corporation would probably be so grateful that they'd start listening to their customers quite quickly thereafter! Of course, that's just one purely theoretical example proposed merely as a topic of discussion.

@The_OwO_Shogun

10 ай бұрын

I feel powerless, but Im not! I can just not buy the products! I mean, almost all the products here are food related... So I guess I'll starve.

I think these companies' brains may have also shrunk when they decided to make these stupid packaging ideas.

@noseboop4354

10 ай бұрын

But their wallets sure have swelled a lot.

@AIHumanEquality

10 ай бұрын

​@@noseboop4354That's generally what rich Americans think with.

@BisexualPlagueDoctor

10 ай бұрын

There not stupid, there mildly evil.

@AIHumanEquality

10 ай бұрын

@@BisexualPlagueDoctor They're* and both of those can be true.

@ILikeCornYouKnow

5 ай бұрын

@@BisexualPlagueDoctor Mildly? I think an extra word sneaked into your comment, these corporations and their CEOs are pure evil.

Tip with paper towels: There’s usually a less expensive brand that compares itself to bounty. It’s the same thing without the bounty designs on the paper towels. As long as you get the “deluxe” (or whatever they call it, sometimes premium) it’s all paying for the brand name.

@RaptorNX01

10 ай бұрын

store brands are often just as good. depends on the product. and in many cases, i actually think they use the brand manufacturer and license out the product. for ex: Albertsons store brand cola tastes EXACTLY like pepsi. I am 100% convinced it actually IS pepsi, just repackaged.

Here's another reason I heard this is happening. Everybody asks 'why don't they make the packages smaller?' Well, companies pay grocery chains for shelf space. So if the box is still big it's taking up the same ammount of space as before but it's less product inside it they have to produce. And the larger the size they can reasonably get on the shelves the more they can limit customers other buying options. They litterally keep the big boxes to push out the competition and get the same ammount of money for less product. Mark my words if this keeps up one day wer'll have just a handful of brands with massive boxes and barely anything inside. We need to stop this @$$-hole practice ASAP.

With the laughing cow one, maybe they made the box bigger and didn't shrink the cheese? I remember having trouble getting the cheese out without having to spill everything out or smash the cheese, it can be an important change that design to solve a problem

if i knew how to read and speak japanese i would of moved to japan years ago and it’s not because of anime do you know how cheap yet diverse and healthy the food is compared to food in america it’s absolutely insane i been watching this channel japaneats this one video the man got this pre made bento box for not even 2 dollars and it had more food then any individual meal i have found in all of america

@justarandomguy983

10 ай бұрын

moving to Japan because you're a weeb:🤓 Moving to Japan because its cheaper:🗿

@HopeIsADrug11037

10 ай бұрын

I haven't wanted to move to Japan because of anime since I was like 10, the place just genuinely seems amazing.. even though they definitely have a _lot_ of flaws. but that's just every country, really. even the most amazing places don't have the best laws and government.

@sylverscale

10 ай бұрын

The irony is that I'd only move there if I was rich or could work on my own schedule because the work culture over there is absolutely not compatible with the one over here (Germany).

@blank4502

10 ай бұрын

Bro said "would of"

@joebidenofficialpotus

10 ай бұрын

​@@justarandomguy983go to Philippines for cheap

This is either CEOs going "I want more money, how do I do that?" Or what happened with Tobblerone where they were actually worried people would care if they have to raise their prices. Everyone knows about inflation, if a company needs to raise prices it's a lot better than lowering quality.

I'd rather pay a little more than pretend the packaging isn't trying to trick me

0:47 Robin discovers a chocolate drink brand

@CesarSalad69

10 ай бұрын

Milo moment

15:14 16.9 oz is actually a fairly common size even in the US because it's an even 500mL. I see it pretty commonly on bottled water.

Gotta give Kudos to Cadbury for that anti-inflation

I'm waiting for the day when companies are charging $80 for empty packaging. I mean there's literally no other trajectory...whats their alternate plan for the next 50 years if they're already shrinking things by this much this quickly

You better be sure on that Cadbury drink that they raised the price for more than 50 grams. It calls price carousel. Lowering the content down in tiny little steps (selling you less product for your money) before they return to the old regular size but when put 12,5 % more in it they will raise the price for 20 % or something. Before you know you're paying an additional 30 % more in like 5 years, it's bonkers.

I live in Canada and I've never once been to a fast food place that gives you less fries than the container/package overflowing and spilling fries out. Is that not how they do it everywhere?

2:01 is that a pony in the background

@Adelin_15

10 ай бұрын

Yes it is 😂

Robin's room is so cool wth????

I lived in Denmark and Canada and I've never seen packages that leave one spot empty in anything. Is that a thing that really happens? Also the reason there's so much air in chip bags is for pressure not because they're being cheap. The chips last longer with sealed air in them and get crushed less. It would cost less than an extra penny to fill 100 bags up to the top so it's not about saving costs.

@thedesensitizedsympathizer5307

10 ай бұрын

Canadian here. Lays still has half full bags.

Ever notice that dent in the bottom of peanut butter jars? *_Shrinkflation_* They do it in small increments so you don't notice notice

"5 guys about your fries" translation: order a small and get a pound of potato in fry form. More bag fries than cup fries.

I remember years ago when our favorite toilet paper brand decided to make the rolls 1/4" narrower, our holders are built into the cabinets and only have small protrusions to hold it, well the narrower rolls would not stay in the holder. Switched TP brands to solve it but in a few years all the brands did the same thing, made millions of TP holders worthless since they would not hold the rolls anymore. About 5 years go by and many of the top brands did it again but this time offered a free adapter so you could use it on the old holders.

Keep in mind that box store choose their package size from the manufacturers. The store chooses what size to offer to hit the price point that they would like to maintain. Walmart and the Dollar General are big culprits for ordering the smaller size containers of things and offer them at the same price as other stores do for the larger ones. It's how they can make it look like they are charging less. Also, you can't do the price match guarantee that they have because they only accept same size items for comparison. The Pure Leaf example they gave is one of those. They sell the small bottles in stores but the bigger bottles in gas stations and vending machines.

"Dont often show my face here" - Forgets he frequently has SCPesque photos on the channel

The annoying thing to me isn't even the fact taht they shrink it its that they tried to hide it or trick you into thinking its same amount. If you have to cut production costs I'd rather you be upfront with me about the drop in size or the increase in price rather than trying to be some magician who make your audience not notice the drop in size.

The Rexona deodorant didn't change quantity, just its packaging. Both are 50ml; if anything the new packaging just shows there was too much air in the old packaging.

I like seeing Robin's face, hearing his voice, but I hear him so differently when I see his face. I'm not surprised, as thats what its like for others, guess I can fit in. Still love ya stuff Robin :)

The reason this won’t change anytime soon is; companies are only leaving violence as an answer. And they know we won’t hunt them down and set them on fire in front of their families like we used to. Because now we got too many comforts that we’d lose

@AIHumanEquality

10 ай бұрын

Bigger reason is that companies in America have become a corporate oligarchy where they agree to work together to screw people over rather than compete. There's plenty of Americans who do not live in comfort. Almost half the country is struggling if not more than that.

@makhina8839

10 ай бұрын

@@AIHumanEquality that’s the same thing I said but with softer neoliberal language

@AIHumanEquality

10 ай бұрын

@@makhina8839 What I said was very socialist not neoliberal if you want to put a title on it.

@thedesensitizedsympathizer5307

10 ай бұрын

Yeah, Until someone who just doesn't give a fuck get involved.

3:57 Dr Oetker is legit one of the best frozen pizza brands there is. And they're not even that expensive.

7:24 you are supposed to add boiling water to it, and then it mixes with the powder and boils the pasta and it becomes much bigger, like 70% of the cup

Fun fact, 16.9 oz is the equivalent to 500 ML. An international standard so they don't have to make two different size bottles

Here's an example of shrinkflation I've never seen anyone discuss before: Entenmann's Little Bites. When I was a kid, there were 5 in the bag. Now there are only 4

The real reason companies shrink their products rather than raise their prices is actually pretty simple. You notice how pretty much every single item in these videos are items you buy often, like food or cleaning supplies? Because if you raise the price, sure you get a little more, but people buy the same amount. If you shrink it, then people who are used to the normal amount are more likely to buy two to satisfy that gap. Therefore, instead of a slight increase, they make almost twice as much. That's why you never see appliances or cars or tvs in these videos

@jismeraiverhoeven

10 ай бұрын

I was thinking this. The biggest reason they take this aproach is because its less noticable then a price increase so they can earn more money and most customers are none the wiser. Its also the same reason why most products are priced with .99 at the end, because it looks cheaper then a full dollar/euro even tough it gets rounded upwards anyway. I actually learned about that trick in a marketing class at school. Another way shops trick customers is putting something "on sale" without actually changing the price. Customers think its cheaper but nope its actually the same price as before the sale, but the shop wont tell you that

6:15 it's legal because the weight is clearly marked on the front, the size of the container is irrelevant to the weight to cost ratio.

Here in Brazil whenever a company reduces the size of a product they are required to clearly state the original size and the amount of reduction on the package. It makes a lot easier to understand the impact of inflation. You guys should be fighting for similar laws.

11:04 i took a HACCP course (Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point) and the woman teaching us used McDonald's as an example when she talked about cleaning the workplace. Apparently here (Portugal) they take cleaning the restaurants and the kitchens REALY good. Also you can see the kitchen in the McDonald's restaurants and the people working there, dont know if its the same everywhere.

Omg. I was literally eating double stuff oreos last night and thinking the exact same thing. I'm convinced that the whole "thins" craze was a marketing scheme to surreptitiously shrink the size of the regular cookies. Everything is becoming smaller and more expensive. It would be hilarious if it wasn't freaking real!

best part of all this shrinkflation is corporate profits are skyrocketing

2:39 oh lego

@Mag3.1415

10 ай бұрын

NO LEGO

1:47 Oh christ! I thought I was watchin' an Emkay video, not a Fnaf let's play. Jokes aside, just subbed to your new channel Robin, can't wait to see what you upload! Edit: 9:56 Damn, now THAT takes the biscuit :v

Milo is a chocolate flavoured malted milk drink. Found in South Africa, UK and I think some parts of Asia. I don't know if the US has an equivalent.

Love Mkay. Love the narrators. Will happily subscribe to all of your channels to support you good people

4:26 Coles and Woolworths have recently been increasing prices of a lot of prices and even with specials it wouldn't reach its former price. For Example, A 10-pack of Lemonade used to cost $5.50. last year, they doubled it to around $11. As far as I know, they haven't discounted it to more than 40% off other than in 2-for-1 deals. What is maddening is that they abandoned their slogan "Down, Down", meaning prices were down. To combat the anger they made their own brands which are 80% of the price but don't feel the same as the other brands, like they are copying the brands for profit. This year they made a big profit off of this. Doesn't help that "convenience stores", places where things are supposed to be cheap and accessible, are more expensive than items in supermarkets.

"Why is shrinkflation happening in England all of a sudden?" Brexit, my dude. Brexit is hitting them harder than everywhere else because, in the middle of a global pandemic, four years after the original (bad) decision to leave the EU, they said "yeah, no, we can go it alone, thanks".

@AIHumanEquality

10 ай бұрын

Yeah that's not shrinkflation so much as their economy just exploding not just because of Brexit but because they didn't plan for the economic outcome of leaving the EU cause England is currently run by muppets.

@ChristiaanHW

10 ай бұрын

exactly. on top of all the same problems as the rest of the world, because of Brexit a decent chunk of trade between the UK and EU has stopped. because it's more of a hassle (more paperwork and longer shipping times) and a lot more expensive to cross the new border between the two. so where the rest of the world has inflation they also have less supply of a lot of things. and less supply means higher prices. and in the future it might become even worse. the current UK government wants to get rid of a lot of regulations. and with less regulations companies can get away with more crap, like shrinkflation, less worker/employer rights, less safe products. Brexit, the gift that keeps on giving.

@sylverscale

10 ай бұрын

But hey, they got rid of some of those pesky foreigners who kept "stealing" the jobs (that no one wanted to do in the first place). Like truckers... Personally, I use to buy quite a bit of stuff I the UK but not anymore. Also, many companies who used to have warehouses in the UK to ship to the EU moved them to the Netherlands, and Poland (for example) so they can offer customs free shipping to the EU like they used to from the UK.

A sky captain poster, guitar hero guitars, a pony plush, a full recording booth... damn man, mad respect all around.

and they wonder why retail theft is worse than it's ever been LOL

2:22 oh crap! I thought I was watching FNAF for a second- but no joke Robin, you look amazing!

1:54 No worries, Robin, you look as handsome as ever :)

6:05 turn those packages on their side to see how much is missing before you buy.

Y'all need to switch to bamboo paper towels. They're better than tree paper in every imaginable way: they're cheaper, sturdier, more absorbent, and more sustainable.

@toniee98

10 ай бұрын

next up you're gonna talk about sugar cane paper towels

I like seeing Robin being more confident and out there

That has to be one of the best ads I think I've ever seen! Definitely gonna go buy a hoodie now!

0:19 “all of the subs l’m told to do make me mad” r/MadeMeSmile:

I suspect the Ikea candles with concave base burn up nearly all of the wax, while with the traditional shape you always end up with a few percent sitting at the bottom after the wick is consumed.

Thank you for making this. I know this is a known thing that they do but sometimes I feel like my brain is playing tricks

1:40 I was confused at first but I think the justication for those extra 50g is because there's now significantly less effort on the box art, and it's not just the wording

1:23 I noticed this too, and regular oreos look like they have less filling than they did 20 years ago

I've said it before. But in Italy you can get a bag of mixed lettuce already washed ready to garnish for what? 1-2 euros for about 200 grams? That's Italy baby! And you can find the cheaper prices also in more expensive supermarkets.

i still say seeing his face and then hearing robin's voice is such a trip because you so don't imagine him like that, which is not an insult bro doing good for his age

0:15 Wow I remember these kinds of cheese, us Vietnamese people call them "Con Bò Cười" (which is "Laughing Cow" in Vietnamese) and I used to eat these things A LOT!

Robin is always perfect for dystopia subs like this ❤

Binging emkay vids is basically a daily routine for me

2:18 that knock scared the living crap out of me because I thought it was MY door and it was really loud

It's the dishonesty that bothers me. You aren't going to fool anyone more then once. Just raise the price for a FULL tube of Pringles, OR make smaller tubes. Don't waste all that extra packaging, much of which is bad for the environment, and then charge us extra to cover the cost of your extra waste.

On Bounty paper towels, I've noticed that they don't dry things well anymore... and they often leave "dog ears" (corners of the towels) on when you tear one off now too, like the cheapo paper towels do.

13:41 It's been proven people are more likely to pay the same price for less, than to pay more for the same amount as before. Partly because sometimes they don't notice it, sometimes they have a set amount to spend on a specific thing.(even if that specific thing is now less for the same price) Otherwise companies wouldn't bother with shrinkflation and would just put the price of things up, keeping the amount the same.

I bought a 600ml can of butane a month ago for $20, this month, the same store was selling a 447ml can for the same price.

always a treat to see our narrators’ faces 🫶

4:34 Also notice the packing changed to make it look like more, especially it being "Plus".

Yeah, for the fries? Someone effed up.

5:10 the bag is full, of disappointment.

Petition to let Robin have a happy subreddit in his next video

17:38 You used to be able to buy a full bottle of laundry detergent at the dollar store for $1, now you get to buy what looks like a sampler bottle for $1.25. the cap is so small that you have to pour about 5 capfuls in order to equal to one capful of the old laundry detergent. Everything is tiny, especially the food. and now tv dinners are $3 each and they are super small and not so healthy with all the sodium and pasta cause they all have pasta!

What do you call when you got a raise at your job but it is a small amount? DEFLATION.

4:11 my mum has an issue with the name too, she says it’s too “clinical” for food so she’ll never buy ristorante pizzas ever

1:48 NGL Robin's room looks pretty cool and omg the walk he did.

Oddly enough, lumpia here having less "meats and vegetables" filling and more wrapper. like almost 3-5 layers of wrapper and that thin filling.

The year is 2024. One must spend 100 dollars for a single corn chip.

There should be laws about the percentage of a container that should be filled with usable product. For obvious reasons it can't be 100%, but maybe 80-90 would be reasonable.

@ChristiaanHW

10 ай бұрын

as far as i know a lot of places have those. the EU has laws about it. i'm not able to find one at the moment that's specific about food products but i was able to find one about packages in general, and in the EU a packages may contain at most 40% emptiness/filler. the rest has to be product. and i think at least some parts of the US have a max amount of empty space that is allowed

Kroger store brand instant oatmeal was 10 packs per box for both regular and less sugar varieties, same price. Some months ago the picture on the packaging changed. Now the boxes are the same size and price, but regular is still 10 per box and less sugar is 8 per box. The picture change makes the quantity less noticeable.

5:26 On The Border brand tortilla chips are really good. They're usually filled to about the fullest, so I'd say this one is a massive outlier

I really like how you are constantly poking fun of yourself, i'm not sure if you seriously lack confidence or you just have that kind of humor, but either way you seem like a fun dude to me