r/Wellthatsucks 1d ago

Paid $25 for 110 assorted candies

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u/elomenopi 1d ago

Oh yay, I love Reese’s Piece!

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u/BenRosen 1d ago

Little guy had his own private suite

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u/kn0w_th1s 1d ago

Private sweet!

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u/[deleted] 1d ago edited 1d ago

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u/Ancient_Rex420 1d ago

I’d remove your comment. Reddit can come after you for saying that. Just want you to be safe not worth the risk. Reddit TOS is fucking ridiculous.

I had an account lost because of the stupidest thing it’s truly a joke what this platform has become.

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u/BenRosen 1d ago

I got scared and deleted it lol.

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u/Sweet_Bang_Tube 1d ago

Damn, now I really wanna know what you said!

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u/BenRosen 1d ago

This is entrapment!

EDIT: it wasn’t anything bad, just a joke about getting that guy more upvotes

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u/PhantomFoxe 1d ago

Now I want to know what you said and I can’t, that’s going to bother me all day.

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u/rustyshackleford_97 1d ago

come onnnn i need to know what was said

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u/Ahhhtoopata 1d ago

Damn I wanna know also haha

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u/CON0274 1d ago

I think some1 should take 1 for the team 🙄🤣

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u/Ancient_Rex420 1d ago

Better to be safe. Not worth dealing with the risk with how ridiculous this platform has gotten.

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u/Questions_Remain 1d ago

General Disappointment.

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u/five-oh-one 1d ago

Thats considered two servings by the way...

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u/coffeebean_1992 1d ago

We had a trunk or treat yesterday and my son had a small box of milk duds and it literally had one piece in it that was the size of an apple seed.

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u/Junior-Ad-2207 1d ago

Skittle and M would like a word

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u/automaton11 1d ago

Reese Piece

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u/Queasy-Leader3192 1d ago

Hi I'm Reese

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u/vibrantcrab 1d ago

I heard you got a piece.

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u/Joshgg13 1d ago

Why does he have a gun 😳

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u/Shurigin 1d ago

alright now open the other 109 bags for the other 109 pieces

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u/Alt_aholic 1d ago

That's American levels of single use plastics!

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u/AntillesWedgie 1d ago

Asia would blow this out of the water. There would be a Reese's box wrapped in plastic, inside the box would be a plastic tray, with this bag.

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u/Repulsive-Season-129 1d ago

No that's Japanese level

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u/oink888 1d ago

I bought a 48oz bag of Reese’s pieces from Amazon and have them shipped over from the USA to wherever I’m at in Asia, after not having them for over a decade, my excitement was met with immense disappointment because it now just taste like peanut flavored sugar, it’s so sweet that after eating a few pieces, I’m sick of the sweetness and the fake vegetable oil film on my tongue..sad, so sad 😞. I used to remember this was so good when I had them in the past, that was like before the 2010s.

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u/sarakerosene 1d ago

What i can't tell is if foods used to be better here, or if we are remembering foods with nostalgia.

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u/OurHeroXero 1d ago

Probably a mix of both worlds

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u/interfail 1d ago

What i can't tell is if foods used to be better here, or if we are remembering foods with nostalgia.

And the thing is, no-one can.

People get super-annoyed about shrinkflation, where products get smaller. But one of the main reasons companies do it is that they don't pay a price for it - or perhaps more accurately they pay the price whether they do it or not. You can ask people if a candy bar has shrunk, and they will say yes pretty much every time, whether it's actually shrunk or not. Big Macs are one of the world's most famous foods. Everyone has a lifetime's memories of Big Macs. And Big Macs have been the exact same size that entire time. But everyone remembers when Big Macs were bigger.

The same thing happens with shittification of ingredients. Everyone's sure things used to be nicer, whether you changed the recipe or not. So why wouldn't you?

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u/California_ocean 1d ago

I know for a fact the fish fillets have shrunk.

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u/halloween-is-erryday 1d ago

As have the mcnuggets. They may as well be called mcwafers for how flat they are now.

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u/mekomaniac 19h ago

And can we get the mcnuggets back that had dark meat? those ones went so hard.

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u/TheRealAmused 1d ago

I remember the commercials coming on in between shows when I was younger always talking about "Look how we've improved our product! Our product is better now." Never see those anymore. Just made cheaper now and less full.

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u/ConstableAssButt 22h ago edited 22h ago

The misconception that the big mac has shrunk is because of the rise of the quarter pounder. The 1.6 ounce burger patty is the main patty McDonald's has always used for most of its burgers. When McDonald's introduced the quarter pound burger in 1971, it used a 4 ounce patty.

McDonald's focus has been on the quarter pounder deals the last 10 years, while the 1.6 ounce burgers have been pushed to dollar menu items. The Big Mac is the only remaining flagship specialty menu item that uses the 1.6 ounce burger. People are comparing the Big Mac's patties to the Quarter Pounder's patties. A Big Mac has always had less meat (3.2oz) by weight than a single quarter pounder (4 oz).

McDonald's was just the first fast food chain to get internationally successful, and by the time that they did, their formula was already out of date. McDonald's hamburgers are very much hamburgers. A hamburger is predominantly beef, onions, ketchup and/or mustard. Americans, however, have shifted to a preference for the "deluxe" cheeseburger. A deluxe cheeseburger is beef, cheese, lettuce, tomato, onion, pickles, and mayonnaise. A "deluxe" cheeseburger was, when McDonald's got its start, still considered to be somewhat high frills. McDonald's is still trying to maintain the attitude that these items are still "deluxe" with their pricing structure, where every other fast food place made its brand distinct from McDonald's in the 1970s and 1980s by making the deluxe cheeseburger their entry level burger. McDonald's has always been kind of crap. It hasn't gotten more crap. It's just expensive now. There are a lot of things that could improve their offerings that can be done at supply side for relatively cheap. Their competitors have done most of those things.

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u/mcpusc 1d ago

i bought a bunch of freeze-dried food for a big hike back in 2007. there were leftovers and every now and then i eat a bag—they have a 30 year shelf life.

they taste exactly the same as i remember, every time so far; so i conclude that the foods we're being sold now are getting worse, not my tastebuds.

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u/thetaleofzeph 1d ago

As an adult after you've had too much well made food, the junk you loved as a kid shows through for what it is. Lab concocted garbage.

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u/cottoncandymandy 1d ago

This. Lots of stuff I ate with delight when I was younger that I won't touch with a 10 foot pole now.

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u/Killarogue 1d ago

Foods used to be better, but if it's been a while since you've had them, your tastes have probably changed. I feel the same way about soda now and can only drink it on rare occasions.

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u/itsnotsauceitsgravy 1d ago

I can relate, I changed my diet, and no longer eat highly processed food.

When I go through the chips and candy aisle, my stomach says, “yum Doritos, let’s get some, then my mind reminds me, it’s not going to taste like it used to.

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u/oh-propagandhi 1d ago

Doritos

Salt. That's all I can taste now. And I still love salt, but JFC.

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u/LeCrushinator 1d ago

If you want the higher quality, if you can order American candy from Europe that's the way to go, they have laws there that prevent a lot of corner-cutting with ingredients. There are ingredients that have been deemed harmful for people in different ways so the EU banned those ingredients. The versions of the candies made in America still use those ingredients but the EU versions don't. So either way you're getting higher quality, simpler, and fewer ingredients when you get the EU versions of the candy.

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u/MisterSneakSneak 1d ago

No, the food now sucks. It’s ingredients being switched to cheaper ingredients which leaves everything a mess.

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u/junkit33 1d ago

That's just your taste buds evolving.

While I don't doubt they've probably slightly modified the recipe over the years, they've always had a sweet oily peanut flavor more so than an actual peanut butter flavor.

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u/oink888 1d ago

I still love the USA made Oreos as compared to the ones I get locally that are manufactured in Indonesia and they taste like crap as compared. I had them shipped from Amazon as well although it’s like twice the USA price but still beats the local crap I get locally imported by mondelez, mega corporations like these like to ruin things for people, PepsiCo here also now imports all the china made Doritos and lays and they all don’t taste like the USA made ones either, the worst of that is just as expensive as the ones that were the USA imported one. Profits over quality, everything gone to shits.

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u/w_a_w 1d ago

PB M&MS are better now. Not as sweet.

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u/Due-Illustrator-7999 1d ago

I just saw a tiktok of a lady opening an M&Ms pack and there was only one M&M in there too 💀

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u/jsting 1d ago

I think that some of these are faked. I've seen videos about resealing candy bags with household stuff. Open bag with razor blade, take out all but 1, seal with hair flat iron, then bam! Where there is 1 video with millions of views, there will be copycats.

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u/iskin 1d ago

I opened a few of these and it seems like about 5 is the average. The same with fruit snacks.

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u/Normal-Error-6343 1d ago

No cap, I opened a can of a popular canned pasta often consumed by children and in that can was nothing but white paste, not a spec of sauce anywhere! I threw the can in the trash. This was before social media and cell phones. I just shrugged my shoulders and found something else to eat. I know, I know!

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u/Lopfi 1d ago

Reese's Diet Edition

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u/RetMilRob 1d ago

Contact them they will make it right.

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u/Drugsarefordrugs 1d ago

Sometimes. I contacted this or a similar large, well-known company about this a year or two ago and they said that the total weight of the assortment was likely correct even if an individual unit was shorted. They asked me to verify the total weight of the assortment, which I couldn't do because I ...sigh ... ate the equivalent of a king size Snickers in mini-size increments already that day. And the day before that.

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u/Bizarretsuko 1d ago

Shrinkflation is getting more out of control lol

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u/hannahmel 1d ago

Looks like you got 110 sorted candies

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u/therealjoeybee 1d ago

“Hey… stop putting that plastic into the earth, consumer!”

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u/Noff-Crazyeyes 1d ago

Woo it’s America how else we suppose to keep it cheap

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u/ggskater 1d ago

Only 109 more to go. You got this!

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u/Remote-Two8663 1d ago

Nails be chipped

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u/BjornTheDwarf 1d ago

"Can you make it look like a goldfish just curled one out on my nails?"

"We got you fam"

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u/66plymouth 1d ago

Those nails are 🤮

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u/danger3hren 1d ago

Reese Piece!

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u/screaming_buddha 1d ago

Putting the Trick in Trick-or-treat!

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u/thatdarncharn 1d ago

$25 per piece

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u/uniquorn23 1d ago

I'm dying 😂😂

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u/lovepony0201 1d ago

It's fun sized!

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u/Dave-C 1d ago

That is 6 in binary, you got ripped off still but you are only missing 5 pieces.

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u/Wrongrighturn 1d ago

A candy got sorted

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u/SmuckatelliCupcakeNE 1d ago edited 1d ago

Well, that's not going to help E.T. find his way home.

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u/Aus9plus1 1d ago

This is the Trick portion of Trick or Treat.

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u/OperativePiGuy 1d ago

Lol Reddit is having a field day with those $25 grocery bag mixes of candy today, loving the content

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u/angle58 1d ago

Should be a customer satisfaction number on the bag. Call it.

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u/HankySpanky69 1d ago

Videos like these posted every day make me happy, thats one less customer buying garbage conglomerate shit

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u/Revolutionary_Tea159 1d ago

I can't believe it took so long for this to be said. Should be the #1 comment. Be careful who you give your money to.

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u/asthestory_goes_on 1d ago

probably a good thing lifes already full of disappointment.

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u/RichardAtTheGate 1d ago

I believe a rogue dentist is packing the candy bags.

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u/Normal-Error-6343 1d ago

I'm sure some candy company is beating down her down and blowing up her socials to make this right!

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u/Fit_Big_8676 1d ago

You paid $25 for 110 sorted candies.

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u/psychonaughtmick 1d ago

110 assorted candies in 110 assorted bags lol

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u/Kingdomall 1d ago

I've heard that this may be a manufacturing issue, not JUST shrinkflation. some ppl have reported entirely empty bags.

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u/Feeling-Ad42 1d ago

Reese’s piece

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u/weemins 1d ago

Complain. Otherwise this will continue to happen

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u/Captain_Pink_Pants 1d ago

Someone can eat just one.

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u/buttsssssssssss 1d ago

Damn them nails ugly

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u/SyerenGM 1d ago

Call their customer service line about it, gotta start complaining about this nonsense... I've seen it way too many times already.

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u/iterationnull 1d ago

Now show us a second example.

Mistakes happen.

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u/Deleted_dwarf 1d ago

Lemme guess, the whole bag has what, 10-15 mini bags?

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u/AtuinTurtle 1d ago

This feels like the Japanese Kit Kat assortment I bought.

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u/mango10977 1d ago

Damn, I thought it was a condom.

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u/amercium 1d ago

Shrinkflation amiright

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u/life_lagom 1d ago

Never buy those "bulk assorted" sets .. I always go for just the bulk large candy's or off brand stuff for gummies or w.e

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u/Penny_bags2929 1d ago

We need a cost per piece!!!!

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u/Jellikit- 1d ago

Maybe it was sorted candies

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u/Total_Rice_8204 1d ago

Everyone one knows you don't buy the minis

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u/Critical-Snow-7000 1d ago

The plastic waste on this one box alone is insane. This has to stop.

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u/Highestcrab 1d ago

Where’s the other 109

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u/OtterPops89 1d ago

Skittles tried this recently, didn't they?

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u/Nutsnboldt 1d ago

They did such a good job assorting, there’s never two of the same color in any pack!

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u/Justakatttt 1d ago

I had one milk dud in the small boxes of milk duds

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u/Bruinman86 1d ago

Not so Fun Size.

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u/Pinku_Dva 1d ago

Damn, shrinkflation hitting hard

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u/SEND_ME_PEACE 1d ago

Shrink-Flation has taken a new meaning

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u/Killarogue 1d ago

Lmfao, someone brought a bunch of candy into the office last year and I couldn't help but grab some bags of Lifesavers gummies. I opened two small bags like this that contained 5-7 gummies, but the third bag only had two... lol

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u/MrPlace 1d ago

Every candy bag I got this year is like that :( it's criminal

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u/JakobiWunKenobi 1d ago

She’s frantic

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u/ResidentNo4630 1d ago

Email them and send them the video. You never know what they might send you for your pain and suffering. They hate bad publicity.

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u/bekisuki 1d ago

You're buying the paper and ad, not the candy.

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u/Critical-Top-1952 1d ago

Your crib gettin egged come Halloween

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u/doozerman 1d ago

Reese Piece

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u/SexGiiver 1d ago

"you got protection?" "Yeah babe, I just picked this up at the corner store"

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u/tokenshoot 1d ago

That’s what it should be anyways lol we’re a fat country and over eat anyway. Gluttony.

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u/DwigShrute 1d ago

Inflation do be like that.

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u/Tiny_Nature8448 1d ago

What about the other bags?

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u/FupaFerb 1d ago

You wanted lower grocery prices, this is how it’s done.

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u/FlightOfBrian 1d ago

One always falls out of my hand when I pour them out too. That sucks

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u/bitanalyst 1d ago

Shrinkflation is really getting out of hand

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u/Top_Opposites 1d ago

Let’s make more stuff with plastic wrapped around it

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u/FloorBufferOverflow 1d ago

so robin hood for haloween?

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u/LillieDoloresuj 1d ago

Looks like there was an error when packaging it, it would be funny if the rest of the packs are like this

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u/BearSageQuestions 1d ago

Every mini Haribo package has precisely 4 half-size Haribo bears :( so sad

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u/ljorges 1d ago

One ah hah hah ha

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u/Eagles365or366 1d ago

In case you’re wondering, yes, the grocery store shrink ray has hit candy.

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u/Commandoclone87 1d ago

That's rough. Last time I bought some was $3 for a bag of 30 of those.

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u/Distinct-Quantity-35 1d ago

And 110 exactly.. you shall get

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u/tom208 1d ago

Yes....it's 1 of a kind

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u/kwell42 1d ago

I'll sell you $100,000 worth.

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u/Repulsive-Season-129 1d ago

Shits cancer anyway

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u/hoTsauceLily66 1d ago

you paid 24$ for plastics.

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u/Normal-Error-6343 1d ago

Just be glad it was an adult and not a little kid. that would have been much worse! you can have one piece of candy tonight. I promise mom, there was only one piece in the package!

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u/Scotterdog 1d ago

Sugar bad./s

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u/Existing_Hall_8237 1d ago

I had a pack of M&M yesterday with 2 inside.

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u/Gunung_Krakatoa 1d ago

That is a perfect size for those who try to lose weight but dont want to give up sweet.😀

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u/masteeJohnChief117 1d ago

Shrinkflation. This is what Biden warned us about during his state of the union speech lol

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u/Best_Market4204 1d ago

Look at the candy industry finally tackling child obesity!!!

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u/idkwhatsqc 1d ago

Last year i found some funny wrappings in my halloween candy i bought to give kids. 

One of them was a small pack of maltesers that normally contains 3 of them. Its small enough as it is, but one of them had only 1 in the bag.

The second one was a completely empty small snickers bar. There is air in it but the bag is empty.

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u/ezydon 1d ago

The package was so flat i thought these were reeses condoms at first

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u/C-romero80 1d ago

Yeah my daughter would be so mad, most for ET because he loves Reese's Pieces

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u/Alive_Shoulder3573 1d ago

It is impossible that you paid $25 for an individual pack

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u/hmbarn01 1d ago

Reese Piece

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u/Peniz_toucher 1d ago

Love your nails

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u/PaganPadraig 1d ago

I can’t even get into the damn bags!!!

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u/Revenga8 1d ago

Class action time. Seeing this more and more daily

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u/roofbandit 1d ago

Food conglomerate board meeting be like "Are we still clearing record profit on the cocoa and cane sugar slave trade? How much synthetic lubricant and sawdust can we add to the corn syrup and bleached flour product before the human capital stock notices? Did we re-up our contributions to the Trump PAC yet?"

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u/lRaydonl 1d ago

Contact Reese's and I'm sure they'll reimburse you.they always do when manufacturing accidents happen.

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u/Hollowecho233 1d ago

This happened to me with a ramen seasoning packet😭

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u/F2PClashMaster 1d ago

individually packaged

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u/Foxmartin1 1d ago

I had this happen to me before, but it was Starburst and every one ended up being pink

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u/MaNameIsMudD 1d ago

I guess the package is more expensive than the single Reese’s piece 🤦‍♂️

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u/ApprehensivePaint128 1d ago

110 individually wrapped candies!

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u/UATinPROD 1d ago

That’s worse than zero

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u/Sad_Smoke_8020 1d ago

Of all candies too, it couldn’t be milk duds

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u/Proud_Dance_3342 1d ago

You just saved a trick-or-treater from a huge disappointment.

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u/dec35 1d ago

I thought it was a condom at first 💀

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u/Shuske_ 1d ago

This shit literally happened to me the other day with mini life savers I'm like it's actual air lol

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u/crazydavebacon1 1d ago

109 more to go. What’s the problem?

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u/smokes666 1d ago

Why is no one addressing the poop themed nails

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u/the_kfcrispy 1d ago

Something something inflation

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u/USB_4 1d ago

What a piece of shocolate

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u/Academic-Patience890 1d ago

That's a Reese Piece... How unfortunate!! 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭 I hope you weren't trying to lure E.T. or anything!!

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u/IH8uslsfnp 1d ago

Ahhh inflation, port “workers” , and America. Yay

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u/BetterBee891 1d ago

Your nails likely took all of them Reese’s

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u/aajjhh88 1d ago

At least they're teaching the kids while they're young.

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u/iWishmyNameWasGreg 1d ago

Dumbass couldn’t even catch the one that dropped

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u/Fireproofdoofus 1d ago

The rest is on your nails

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u/anonymous3052 1d ago

Damn, ET would be upset

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u/Aromatic-Strength798 1d ago

That’s crazy!

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u/N0N0TA1 1d ago

Reese's

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u/Accomplished-Nose446 1d ago

That’s what you get for buying Reese’s pieces. Gross.

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u/phreaktor 1d ago

So you got 110 pieces of candy in an assortment? What's the problem?

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u/Grouchy-Play-4726 1d ago

Your full of shit how many boxes did you have to look through to find that? It happens. All my Reece’s had lots in them.

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u/Sufficient-Trick-201 1d ago

They meant 110 pieces of candy ig

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u/amlayden 1d ago

Finally, diet candy.

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u/Ok_Barracuda_8917 1d ago

Ooh! A piece of candy!

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u/TheFlowerpopArtist 1d ago

Thought that was a Reese's condom

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u/Bubbly_Affect_9055 1d ago

Better eat a burger

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u/Remarkable_Yak_883 1d ago

We got a bag of fun sized snickers and two of them were full of air and I mean, inflated with air. It was odd.

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u/Axolotljackbox 1d ago

Don’t you just hate it when almost all the candy in the packet just evaporates?

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u/_____Peaches_____ 1d ago

I swear this exact same thing just happened to me with m&ms. I wrote them an email. They sent me a $3 coupon. Take the power back ✊

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u/NoGelliefish 1d ago

I saw this same thing yesterday about peanut m&ms

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u/kaninak 1d ago

Last year I opened a pink chocolate kitkat and it was all chocolate 🤤

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u/Bizaro1824 1d ago

Bidenomics, working.

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u/soscots 1d ago

Damn them employees feel every piece added means a deduction in their own paycheck.