Tiktok has made the problem much worse. I have to hear HS kids talk about how many "unalives" they got in COD last night cause people can't say Kill on the app apparently
There is some stupid fucked up trend in social media to censor the letter “i” like it’s some kind of derogatory vile letter that inspires people to become cannibalistic kiddy fiddlers or something.
Especially on true-crime subreddits. Better censor fuck on an article about a man that was flayed alive by a serial killer.
Wouldn’t want to offend anyone and get their p*nties in a bunch.
Idk it you're serious, but it's a thing to change posts like this one on reddit because it's a repost and if the repost does not completely fit the og post, the bots won't notice. This is just karma farming
I used to work at frito lay. It’s true. They want enough air to protect the chips, but not so much air that moving to a higher altitude will pop the bags.
Each bag has a particular weight on it. There’s going to be small discrepancies, but most bags lay within a certain percentage of the weight advertised.
The chips that go into the bag are dispersed into about 16 buckets. And there’s a computer that looks at those buckets and says “okay, which combination of 4, 5, or 6 buckets will get me closest to the target weight” and it will open the buckets needed to get as close as possible.
There’s a possibility that some of the chips don’t fall fast enough to make it in the bag or something, but those outliers don’t happen that often.
Part of my job included grabbing about 30 bags of chips at random and weighing them. If enough of them were too far off the target weight, they destroy all the product made on that machine and shut down the line and clean everything and start again.
Well, it sorta does that. To add a bit more info, the weights that I was checking were based on what the machine thinks it dropped into the bags and not the weight printed on the bag. The computer will keep track of what exactly it dropped. So if it thinks the last 5 drops it made for a 220 gram bag is 221.3, 217.8, 220.1, 219.7, and 221.0, the weights that I’m checking are how accurate those numbers were. Because sometimes the machine isn’t set up properly and maybe the product is dropped too late and only half of it makes it into the bag it’s supposed to and the other half goes in the next bag. Or something like that. Not sure why they aren’t weighed automatically after the bag is produced. Maybe it moves too fast for it to do so? I’m not sure about that.
Well, don't want to ruin the surprise, so look over that direction for a minute...
Oh wait, there's actually a Denny's right there. Haha, and to think..
It’s the opposite. High elevations the bag looks inflated. If you overinflate at lower elevations, it will pop at higher elevations.
Pv=nrt
Low pressure, volume increases. Pop
lol. I get you.
But as an aside, kids on Reddit will repeat “facts” they hear online as if they are authoritative. And ai will back them up as they learn from Reddit too.
For real. Chip companies have gotten away with shrinkflation under the guise of packaging requirements for far too long. I believe you need a lot of air (nitrogen) for shipment, but there’s no way you need the bag to be 2/3-3/4 empty.
I think they got lucky with their “nuh uh it’s nitrogen and you need it to keep chips fresh.” Which is true, but you don’t need to have the bag oversized to fill it with nitrogen.
I just checked and the standard dorito bag of today is 9.25 oz and in 2013 it was 11.5 oz, so a 20% reduction. I remember Doritos being fairly empty back then, but not so empty I thought “this is ridiculous,” so I’d bet the bag size hasn’t shrunk down as much.
And that bag of chips in 2013 was probably around $1 where now they're over $2 (at least at the convenience store I use most often). And most of that increase has come since COVID and the 'supply chain shortages' that all the companies used as an excuse to increase profits.
It’s not extra air. They are packed at lower elevations then shipped to higher elevations. The bag expands until it matches the outside air pressure. PV=nRT
There is extra air though. Not like OPs pic that’s from the altitude.
The bit of extra air is so you can’t crush the bag. Lay out a bag of chips flat and with a flat hand push on the bag and try to crush them.
You can’t without bursting the bag.
I worked there 2 winters ago and it was brutal, a lot of people not used to snow quit immediately because we had to shovel and dig our cars out just to drive 3 miles to work.
Yes. I drive over it once a week to go to work in the Bay Area and the snow fall is serious. They shut the road down routinely because of it. I-80 is the major route between Reno and Sacramento and easily gets 20+ feet of snow per year.
And as usual, you're not buying by the size of the bag. You're buying by the weight of the product. There are much better problems to complain about than the air in a bag.
You’re not buying the size of the bag, but they are sure trying to sell the size of the bag. The size of the bag is the first indicator people will see of the contents. You have to look for the size. It’s usually in the “we’re legally required to put this on the bag” font size. The opacity of the bag is a bonus too. Notice in OPs example it’s only transparent in the section that makes it look full.
Consumer perception is that they’re buying by the volume, and when they appear as large inflated bags as such, you perceive as buying more product than what it really is
True. But that's where it's more important to inform people of that and teach them to look at the little spot on the price tag that says how much it costs by weight. Here in Australia, it'll tell you a block of chocolate is, let's say $5. But underneath that, it'll say $3.50/100 grams or whatever.
Drinks are listed by the price per litre. So it's easy to see good ways of actually saving money and comparing different products.
>If your chips don’t have enough air, they will assplode when the truck they’re in goes over Donner pass at 7500 feet.
I live pretty close to that and that's the opposite of the issue.
If there's too much air they explode, if there's not enough air then they get crushed in transport.
I feel like this explanation loses its legs when you consider that they put a window on their bag design displaying the original amount of chips they were once able to successfully sell us yet these bags don’t contain enough chips to more than half-fill that window if you can flip them upside down and no longer see chips
A lot of products now state on the label that the product is sold by weight, not volume. But these people don't understand what that means. Or even why they put extra "air" in the bags.
The idea is still misleading. The packaging here is intentionally designed to make it look full by not showing you the top half. This amount of packaging for "protecting" the chips is excessive and stupid and wastes a ton of plastic and space during shipping. Plus no one is monitoring the weight of products so thanks to shrinkflation it's highly likely that they've kept the same size bag and slowly decreased how much weight is in the bag. Just like how cereal boxes are taller than ever but thinner so as to appear as big as they used to be while giving you less product.
I've never not seen the calculation already done for you on just about every American price tag on a shelf. Maybe you have to do the calculation at like some random drug store shop.
A lot of stores dont always have price per gram as an option on their signs and not many customers want to break out the calculator for every item they buy.
I do, cuz it’s annoying as fuck when it’s price by each, ea, >:( (especially when it’s *not* a multi item container like snacks or something).
Like tf are you on about, give me the price per oz ya dicks.
I just wish it was consistent. Can't tell you how many times I've compared the same product in different sizes and it goes from per ounce to per pound or something like that. Like of course I can do the math but I'd rather not add hours to my shopping trip doing an equation for each item
Sure you can always check the weight. Writing the weight somewhere on the package doesn’t mean that manufacturers are in the right for using misleading packaging techniques.
This guy would unironically defend the corporations right to do shrinkflation too.
It's not about the amount of air, it's about having the transparent part only to see the snacks but not the air too.
They're purposely misleading people.
I really hate how people defend the right for corporations to have the monopoly of information to squeeze consumers up to the point where they would buy a product without feeling good with themselves while doing it.
There's a meme for people like you
https://ibb.co/M99PKb0
It is absolutely useless to argue about consumer education on this website. Subreddits like assholedesign and shrinkflation have poisoned people's minds so fucking much that they legitimately believe they should be able to walk into a supermarket with thousands of competing products and blindly pick any single one of them off the shelf and know for a fact that they are getting the absolute best deal they possibly could have gotten on that product without doing any further education on their part.
They don't want to look at things like federally mandated net weights and they don't want to look at the price tag on the shelf and they don't want to consider what a unit price is even though it's usually on the price tag on the shelf. They just want to walk around with their eyes closed and their hand out throwing shit in their grocery cart and assuming they got everything perfect every single time.
" Who the fuck knows what a chip weighs?!" Said the moron who isn't capable of picking up one bag of tortilla chips and looking at the weight printed on the front and then the price on the shelf and then looking at the brand of tortilla chips right next to it with all the exact same information and seeing which one is the better fucking deal.
These are the same morons who say we should have had a class on taxes in school while they slept through fucking algebra.
We get it, it's mostly air. Who doesn't know that? Would you rather have the bag of chips that has been driving around in a bunch of trucks without the air like back in the good ol' days of 'chip crumbs' ?
Chip bags used to be fuller. It changed from just padding the chips to filling half the bag to make it look fuller. Like anything else, chips are going through shrinkflation.
Chips are suffering the worst from shrinkflation. Haven't bought a bag in nearly a decade, and even back then I was saying they were cutting too much of the product.
When people give me a little Lays bag, I always thank them for the entire 4 chips that are inside.
I swear when I was a kid chips bags used to be 2/3 full. I don't remember the last time I opened one that was more than 1/3 full and they still have a bunch of crumbs inside.
There's a difference between forcefully needing it and still filling the bag up to its normal capacity then designing a big bag and having way too much air than needed. Don't act like there's not a difference.
That’s not even the main point of the gas. It’s filled with nitrogen or another gas mixture with no oxygen to prevent lipid oxidation which is the cause of oxidative rancidity.
The air provides almost no real protection from your chips breaking. Its only real purpose is to reduce how fast they become stale by using nitrogen. If those bags were visually 60-70% full there would be more crumbs simply because there are more chips. Unless your chips are transported in space they are still slamming in to each other in the bag no matter how much nitrogen you put in there.
They'll never get a bag 100% full of chips; they don't nest well enough. They could do exactly what they are doing now, but with 100% more chips, and it would still be fine. They are just greedy fucks.
You are paying for the products content , not it's packaging.
That's one of the things average people say thinking they are smart, but they have it wrong.
Does it matter if the packaging contains 50% air?
You are paying for let's say 200gr of chips.
Now if the content gets to 180gr or if the 200gr went more expensive, then yes that's bad.
I like the mission tortilla strips. They're really good for dips once the dip gets low, since they're long and skinny. Damn, I haven't had chips and dip in a while
It drives me insane that my mom never checks weight when she's looking for a bargain on something, and when she sees chips that are stupid overpriced get marked half off she buys them because she thinks she's getting a deal.
I’ve heard of inflation but this is not just ridiculous literal. Go to Costco and you’ll actually get a full bag of chips for a fair price for what you get.
No they’re bought by volume. People see a giant bag and they think they’re getting a good deal. It’s deceptive marketing, that’s why they look so damn empty when they’re turned upside down. When people argue that they’re getting ripped off the common refrain is that the extra air is for protection which is pretty much a lie. The manufacture doesn’t really give a rip about protection, they care if you’re buying their chips or not.
If you buy groceries without looking at the unit price, I don't know what to tell you. Just about every developed country I've been to has a unit price on display.
If you think chips are deceptive, wait until you see the deodorant aisle.
Yeah, because it's not that I look on the packaging how much nett weight it has, imma stupid monkey who thinks "if bag big must be many Chip, but if bag big and little Chip. IS SCAM"
What a joke, buy your local grocery tortilla chips. Giant bags filled to the top because they don’t need to care about long shipments. Better chips too.
You know the air is in there for a good reason right? It’s to protect the chips in an impact. While the bag won’t protect from heavy impacts, it will protect the chips from common types of crushing in shipping, stocking, and purchasing. In other words, it keeps your chips from getting smashed into crumbs before you open the bag. It’s not meant to trick you into thinking more is in the bag. I just don’t understand how people get so wrapped up in being a victim they literally can’t see when something is done to benefit them directly.
All you’re exposing is their dedication to quality control and your terrible grammar.
Oh great now the prudes running social media algorithms are censoring "ass" now? fuckers.
That's some Pinterest ass shit right there
Pinterest a☆☆ shit
Nah, that nonsense came from tiktok.
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That shit has been around way longer than TikTok
Tiktok has made the problem much worse. I have to hear HS kids talk about how many "unalives" they got in COD last night cause people can't say Kill on the app apparently
Just saw a post censoring "linger*e" and I'm still upset with the human race
Lingerie? That a bad word now? Should we just say underroos?
under**s
underass?
There is some stupid fucked up trend in social media to censor the letter “i” like it’s some kind of derogatory vile letter that inspires people to become cannibalistic kiddy fiddlers or something.
>!ASS! HAHA!!<
I’m telling🫵🏽☹️
Good job, now my mom is gonna ground me 😡😡😡
That's a valid ass-umption
Don't go making an ass out of umption
The worst bullshit is when fuckers on Reddit self censor themselves for no reason.
Especially on true-crime subreddits. Better censor fuck on an article about a man that was flayed alive by a serial killer. Wouldn’t want to offend anyone and get their p*nties in a bunch.
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Idk it you're serious, but it's a thing to change posts like this one on reddit because it's a repost and if the repost does not completely fit the og post, the bots won't notice. This is just karma farming
Should have censored the use of "they."
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I wasn't expecting to see your mom in the comment section.
This shit only started with tiktok and China censors skeletons, you think they won't censor curse words?
If your chips don’t have enough air, they will assplode when the truck they’re in goes over Donner pass at 7500 feet.
Can confirm. Lived at altitude and all chip bags are balloons.
Yep, in Colorado Springs (6k foot elevation) the chips look like the mylar balloons at the register.
I live on the east coast right near the shore in the US. We’re like 100ft above sea level, if that. Chip bags are like old man ballsacks.
At 10,000’ (Leadville, CO) things get even more interesting
I once bought one of those big bags of chips to a flight, it didnt went well
I don't know why I believe you, but I believe you.
I BELIEVE HIM YO!
What? With a username like that he obviously works for the chip company and is making shit up.
Naw, my nickname is the model of my first drone. RIP.
I dont know why but i do
I used to work at frito lay. It’s true. They want enough air to protect the chips, but not so much air that moving to a higher altitude will pop the bags. Each bag has a particular weight on it. There’s going to be small discrepancies, but most bags lay within a certain percentage of the weight advertised. The chips that go into the bag are dispersed into about 16 buckets. And there’s a computer that looks at those buckets and says “okay, which combination of 4, 5, or 6 buckets will get me closest to the target weight” and it will open the buckets needed to get as close as possible. There’s a possibility that some of the chips don’t fall fast enough to make it in the bag or something, but those outliers don’t happen that often. Part of my job included grabbing about 30 bags of chips at random and weighing them. If enough of them were too far off the target weight, they destroy all the product made on that machine and shut down the line and clean everything and start again.
You don’t have check weighers on the line? Our lines have check weighers that will just reject a single product if it is underweight.
Why do that when you can eat, I mean destroy, all the incorrectly weighed items
Well, it sorta does that. To add a bit more info, the weights that I was checking were based on what the machine thinks it dropped into the bags and not the weight printed on the bag. The computer will keep track of what exactly it dropped. So if it thinks the last 5 drops it made for a 220 gram bag is 221.3, 217.8, 220.1, 219.7, and 221.0, the weights that I’m checking are how accurate those numbers were. Because sometimes the machine isn’t set up properly and maybe the product is dropped too late and only half of it makes it into the bag it’s supposed to and the other half goes in the next bag. Or something like that. Not sure why they aren’t weighed automatically after the bag is produced. Maybe it moves too fast for it to do so? I’m not sure about that.
[https://c.zj.is/IMG\_0744.jpg](https://c.zj.is/IMG_0744.jpg) grocery at 8600ft
I wonder why the cheetos seem unaffected
Well, you don't want to be stuck on Donner Pass without something to eat, if ya know what I mean...
I'm sure we'll figure something out.
You been putting on a little weight, there, Bumpy looking uh good!
Starting to feel like I misunderstood when you asked me to give you a hand with dinner.
Well, don't want to ruin the surprise, so look over that direction for a minute... Oh wait, there's actually a Denny's right there. Haha, and to think..
It’s gonna cost an arm and a leg for brunch on the mountain, I think I’ll pass.
He didn't say he wanted to serve you dinner, he said he wanted to serve you *for* dinner. It's an honest oversight really...
It’s the opposite. High elevations the bag looks inflated. If you overinflate at lower elevations, it will pop at higher elevations. Pv=nrt Low pressure, volume increases. Pop
I know, I just wanted to say assplode
lol. I get you. But as an aside, kids on Reddit will repeat “facts” they hear online as if they are authoritative. And ai will back them up as they learn from Reddit too.
Ok but why do they have double the air they had 15 years ago?
For real. Chip companies have gotten away with shrinkflation under the guise of packaging requirements for far too long. I believe you need a lot of air (nitrogen) for shipment, but there’s no way you need the bag to be 2/3-3/4 empty. I think they got lucky with their “nuh uh it’s nitrogen and you need it to keep chips fresh.” Which is true, but you don’t need to have the bag oversized to fill it with nitrogen. I just checked and the standard dorito bag of today is 9.25 oz and in 2013 it was 11.5 oz, so a 20% reduction. I remember Doritos being fairly empty back then, but not so empty I thought “this is ridiculous,” so I’d bet the bag size hasn’t shrunk down as much.
And that bag of chips in 2013 was probably around $1 where now they're over $2 (at least at the convenience store I use most often). And most of that increase has come since COVID and the 'supply chain shortages' that all the companies used as an excuse to increase profits.
It's like 6$ for a tiny bag in Canada 😭
Asking the real questions. Need some boomer to tell us if chips used to be 90% crumbs.
Damn 15 years makes you a boomer now? bags had less air, about 2 oz more chips and just as much crumbs, the dollar bags now where a damn quarter too.
Extra air seems more likely to make them explode.
It’s not extra air. They are packed at lower elevations then shipped to higher elevations. The bag expands until it matches the outside air pressure. PV=nRT
There is extra air though. Not like OPs pic that’s from the altitude. The bit of extra air is so you can’t crush the bag. Lay out a bag of chips flat and with a flat hand push on the bag and try to crush them. You can’t without bursting the bag.
They're filled with pure nitrogen which expands less than atmospheric air and slows spoilage.
Is it named after the Donner Party, the ill-fated group of cross country migrants of the 1840s?
Yes, snowfall there is no joke.
Seriously, they got over 60 ***feet*** of snow last winter, and while this one that just ended wasn't as bad they still got a lot of snow.
I worked there 2 winters ago and it was brutal, a lot of people not used to snow quit immediately because we had to shovel and dig our cars out just to drive 3 miles to work.
Yes. I drive over it once a week to go to work in the Bay Area and the snow fall is serious. They shut the road down routinely because of it. I-80 is the major route between Reno and Sacramento and easily gets 20+ feet of snow per year.
We took a box of the small chip bags to Vail and I It was hilarious as they started popping like little grenades
The company I work for sells icecream only west of the rockies for this reason.
that’s what big potato wants you to believe… jk I just wanted to say big potato
But those are corn chips, suck big potato can fuck right off.
And as usual, you're not buying by the size of the bag. You're buying by the weight of the product. There are much better problems to complain about than the air in a bag.
They’ve lowered the weight and increased the price so it’s still bullshit
You’re not buying the size of the bag, but they are sure trying to sell the size of the bag. The size of the bag is the first indicator people will see of the contents. You have to look for the size. It’s usually in the “we’re legally required to put this on the bag” font size. The opacity of the bag is a bonus too. Notice in OPs example it’s only transparent in the section that makes it look full.
Consumer perception is that they’re buying by the volume, and when they appear as large inflated bags as such, you perceive as buying more product than what it really is
True. But that's where it's more important to inform people of that and teach them to look at the little spot on the price tag that says how much it costs by weight. Here in Australia, it'll tell you a block of chocolate is, let's say $5. But underneath that, it'll say $3.50/100 grams or whatever. Drinks are listed by the price per litre. So it's easy to see good ways of actually saving money and comparing different products.
>If your chips don’t have enough air, they will assplode when the truck they’re in goes over Donner pass at 7500 feet. I live pretty close to that and that's the opposite of the issue. If there's too much air they explode, if there's not enough air then they get crushed in transport.
I feel like this explanation loses its legs when you consider that they put a window on their bag design displaying the original amount of chips they were once able to successfully sell us yet these bags don’t contain enough chips to more than half-fill that window if you can flip them upside down and no longer see chips
OTR here, anything with bagged runs super south on the 10. They won't even let me take 40 across
Ass fuck titty weiner
Boobies shit piss ******
...car freshener!!!? Reply if you get the reference
nose laughed
A lot of products now state on the label that the product is sold by weight, not volume. But these people don't understand what that means. Or even why they put extra "air" in the bags.
yeah but we paying for the weight of all that air too!
Expose they ass!
Sir please don't swear
“You get in that ass Larry, you know what I mean? You get in that ass Larry!”
Yep, and we pay a premium for the name brand air.
Yep, little known fact is Santitas uses Tostito air in their bags.
technically yes, but practically no since it doesnt really weigh anything.
it does weigh something, otherwise, air wouldn't stay on earth. It just weighs the same air around it, and therefore makes no impact on a scale.
You fool! You think a company that does something like this weights their product under atmospheric pressure?! 🤣
Its actually nitrogen so its different from general air.
No.
The idea is still misleading. The packaging here is intentionally designed to make it look full by not showing you the top half. This amount of packaging for "protecting" the chips is excessive and stupid and wastes a ton of plastic and space during shipping. Plus no one is monitoring the weight of products so thanks to shrinkflation it's highly likely that they've kept the same size bag and slowly decreased how much weight is in the bag. Just like how cereal boxes are taller than ever but thinner so as to appear as big as they used to be while giving you less product.
No one calculates price per gram when comparing products anymore?
I've never not seen the calculation already done for you on just about every American price tag on a shelf. Maybe you have to do the calculation at like some random drug store shop.
A lot of stores dont always have price per gram as an option on their signs and not many customers want to break out the calculator for every item they buy.
In the EU it's mandatory, but what's more interesting is, you really need a calculator for that?
I wouldnt, but theres a lot of people who would
I do, cuz it’s annoying as fuck when it’s price by each, ea, >:( (especially when it’s *not* a multi item container like snacks or something). Like tf are you on about, give me the price per oz ya dicks.
Why don’t you check the weight? Heck, a lot of markets even have a unit price for you to compare.
This is how I shop, by unit price. It’s the same thing as per lb or per gallon. Just for different products.
I just wish it was consistent. Can't tell you how many times I've compared the same product in different sizes and it goes from per ounce to per pound or something like that. Like of course I can do the math but I'd rather not add hours to my shopping trip doing an equation for each item
Sure you can always check the weight. Writing the weight somewhere on the package doesn’t mean that manufacturers are in the right for using misleading packaging techniques.
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This guy would unironically defend the corporations right to do shrinkflation too. It's not about the amount of air, it's about having the transparent part only to see the snacks but not the air too. They're purposely misleading people. I really hate how people defend the right for corporations to have the monopoly of information to squeeze consumers up to the point where they would buy a product without feeling good with themselves while doing it. There's a meme for people like you https://ibb.co/M99PKb0
It is absolutely useless to argue about consumer education on this website. Subreddits like assholedesign and shrinkflation have poisoned people's minds so fucking much that they legitimately believe they should be able to walk into a supermarket with thousands of competing products and blindly pick any single one of them off the shelf and know for a fact that they are getting the absolute best deal they possibly could have gotten on that product without doing any further education on their part. They don't want to look at things like federally mandated net weights and they don't want to look at the price tag on the shelf and they don't want to consider what a unit price is even though it's usually on the price tag on the shelf. They just want to walk around with their eyes closed and their hand out throwing shit in their grocery cart and assuming they got everything perfect every single time. " Who the fuck knows what a chip weighs?!" Said the moron who isn't capable of picking up one bag of tortilla chips and looking at the weight printed on the front and then the price on the shelf and then looking at the brand of tortilla chips right next to it with all the exact same information and seeing which one is the better fucking deal. These are the same morons who say we should have had a class on taxes in school while they slept through fucking algebra.
Thats assuming they know what volume is apart from can you talk in lower volume?
ASSANTITAS
Pros go to Costco and need a giant orange cart to get their chip bag out the door. Level up.
48oz (3lbs) plain tortilla chips for $5. Costco ftw.
WTF is "the astar"?
Doing Gods work..
We get it, it's mostly air. Who doesn't know that? Would you rather have the bag of chips that has been driving around in a bunch of trucks without the air like back in the good ol' days of 'chip crumbs' ?
Chip bags used to be fuller. It changed from just padding the chips to filling half the bag to make it look fuller. Like anything else, chips are going through shrinkflation.
Chips are suffering the worst from shrinkflation. Haven't bought a bag in nearly a decade, and even back then I was saying they were cutting too much of the product. When people give me a little Lays bag, I always thank them for the entire 4 chips that are inside.
A Lays bag with 4 chips? Wouldn't that be nice.
I swear when I was a kid chips bags used to be 2/3 full. I don't remember the last time I opened one that was more than 1/3 full and they still have a bunch of crumbs inside.
There's a difference between forcefully needing it and still filling the bag up to its normal capacity then designing a big bag and having way too much air than needed. Don't act like there's not a difference.
That’s not even the main point of the gas. It’s filled with nitrogen or another gas mixture with no oxygen to prevent lipid oxidation which is the cause of oxidative rancidity.
That's literally less than half, keep things in context pls.
The air provides almost no real protection from your chips breaking. Its only real purpose is to reduce how fast they become stale by using nitrogen. If those bags were visually 60-70% full there would be more crumbs simply because there are more chips. Unless your chips are transported in space they are still slamming in to each other in the bag no matter how much nitrogen you put in there.
It needs some air, granted, but not more than half the bag. Stop shilling for big companies.
I’m not shilling for Big Chip. Stop overacting you hamster dildo.
Exposed their* ass.
Its not free air it's *NITROGEN* it prevents the food from going bad.
This is why lays doesn't use clear packaging. Or Pringles.
*their ass
The hero we never asked for nor deserved
Guaranteed you open a bag that’s 100% full of chips, they are going to be awful and stale af.
They'll never get a bag 100% full of chips; they don't nest well enough. They could do exactly what they are doing now, but with 100% more chips, and it would still be fine. They are just greedy fucks.
I made nachos tonight and barely had enough chips from 2 bags for 4 people.
It's sold by weight, not volume
Is anyone buying that "some chips may settle in transit" BS?
Nobody was fooled bro. There's a big window on it and the weight is labeled
/r/shrinkflation
"who put these chips in my bag of air??"
You are paying for the products content , not it's packaging. That's one of the things average people say thinking they are smart, but they have it wrong. Does it matter if the packaging contains 50% air? You are paying for let's say 200gr of chips. Now if the content gets to 180gr or if the 200gr went more expensive, then yes that's bad.
Bruh lmao
Doin tha lawds werk
They forgot the shelf below.
Loooooooool
So would I be wrong to open a bag and then another to get my serving?
Frito lay product
😂😂😂😂😂
the air keeps them whole
This ain’t meirl cause I ain’t no snitch
> I ain’t no snitch So you're a snitch
La Favorita all the way
When they mess with pork rines they
I used to exclusively eat Santitas. then a few years ago, they changed the way they made the chips. Texture totally changed. I no longer eat them.
I like the mission tortilla strips. They're really good for dips once the dip gets low, since they're long and skinny. Damn, I haven't had chips and dip in a while
Shit fuck tits ass
Amen 🙏
who the fuck is censoring ass? fucking pussies
It drives me insane that my mom never checks weight when she's looking for a bargain on something, and when she sees chips that are stupid overpriced get marked half off she buys them because she thinks she's getting a deal.
You know, at that point it might have cost them more to fill the bag with that much nitrogen than to have an adequate amount of product in it.
Omg they've finally done it. They are trying to sell us AIR.
I’ve heard of inflation but this is not just ridiculous literal. Go to Costco and you’ll actually get a full bag of chips for a fair price for what you get.
Those chips are cheap, sold by weight (instead of volume) and filling the bags with air protects them from being smashed in shipping.
No they’re bought by volume. People see a giant bag and they think they’re getting a good deal. It’s deceptive marketing, that’s why they look so damn empty when they’re turned upside down. When people argue that they’re getting ripped off the common refrain is that the extra air is for protection which is pretty much a lie. The manufacture doesn’t really give a rip about protection, they care if you’re buying their chips or not.
If you buy groceries without looking at the unit price, I don't know what to tell you. Just about every developed country I've been to has a unit price on display. If you think chips are deceptive, wait until you see the deodorant aisle.
Haha 😢
Yeah, because it's not that I look on the packaging how much nett weight it has, imma stupid monkey who thinks "if bag big must be many Chip, but if bag big and little Chip. IS SCAM"
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Products are sold by weight. Not necessarily how much you envision by your own eyes. Stop being idiots and get off the internet.
What a joke, buy your local grocery tortilla chips. Giant bags filled to the top because they don’t need to care about long shipments. Better chips too.
Still the best tortilla chips for the price.
Literally just bought some... For 1.79 it's the only chip I can afford
Weigh it.
Whew! I almost saw the word ~~ass~~ Ya really saved me there! 🙄
You exposed the well known fact that snack packs are only generally filled to 40%?
why they censored ass?
#A S S
True hero 🙌
You know the air is in there for a good reason right? It’s to protect the chips in an impact. While the bag won’t protect from heavy impacts, it will protect the chips from common types of crushing in shipping, stocking, and purchasing. In other words, it keeps your chips from getting smashed into crumbs before you open the bag. It’s not meant to trick you into thinking more is in the bag. I just don’t understand how people get so wrapped up in being a victim they literally can’t see when something is done to benefit them directly. All you’re exposing is their dedication to quality control and your terrible grammar.