Food companies feel the pain as consumers reject higher prices

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6 thoughts on “Food companies feel the pain as consumers reject higher prices

    1. Absolutely agree. You used to be able to buy a 6-pack of bottles for around “3 for $10″…now you are lucky to get “3 for $14”

      Also, 2-Liter’s that used to be around $ 1.00 to $ 1.29 are now regularly over $ 2.00

  1. Love this corporate speak from the PepsiCo CEO, loosely translated as we’ve been gouging the crap out of our customers and need to tone it down just a bit : “For particular consumers, we need some new entry price points and probably some new promotional kind of mechanics that don’t expect for the consumer to invest so much cash in a purchase of salty” snacks, he said. “So there’s adjustments that we have to make. … There is some value to be given back to consumers after three or four years of a lot of inflation.”

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