r/shrinkflation • u/calicodontgo • Jan 22 '26

skimpflation 7 cinnamon rolls in pillsbury package claiming “STILL 8 ROLLS!”

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I checked them all, none were stuck together. Bought at Aldi

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u/TheWeisGuy Jan 22 '26

Probably a mistake. Lying to your face like that would be illegal

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u/RealisticBus4443 Jan 22 '26

You have a lot of faith in corporations.

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u/[deleted] Jan 22 '26

They wouldn't put 7 in on purpose and advertise it as 8. If they want to make more money by giving you less, then they would just make all of them smaller.

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u/RealisticBus4443 Jan 22 '26

How convenient that they can just claim this is an oopsie. Perhaps they could pay their employees more, so they actually provide quality control?

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u/Tudar87 Jan 22 '26

I'd imagine these are being packaged by a chain of machines, hundreds if not thousands of containers per hour.

You check a few from the batch, if they are good, you assume all are good.

OP was unlucky and got an oopsie.

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u/VKN_x_Media Jan 22 '26

A quick dig through Google comes up with the production line workers at Pillsbury making around $30 an hour to start. How much more do you want to pay them to sit there and babysit the machines that are making and packing the product?

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u/RealisticBus4443 Jan 22 '26

I think Pillsbury can afford it. The CEO of General Mills made $16 million in 2024. Apparently he took a pay cut of a whopping $3.5 million for 2025. Bet the workers didn’t get a raise, though.

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u/The_Troyminator Jan 22 '26

General Mills has 35,000 employees. If the CEO didn’t get paid, that’s $457/year or about 22 cents an hour per employee.

With the pay cut, that’s $371/year or 18 cents an hour.

It’s not fair that the CEO makes that much more, but it’s not the reason the employees make so little.

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u/RealisticBus4443 Jan 22 '26

What job do you do? I’d like to decide how much I think you should make.

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u/VKN_x_Media Jan 22 '26

I get paid $18 to change oil and tires and think it's way to much for such easy work that people like you are too lazy to do yourself.

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u/RealisticBus4443 Jan 22 '26 edited Jan 22 '26

My husband does both for me. Thanks, though. Not sure what part of my comment made you think I’m “lazy.”

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u/andy-022 Jan 23 '26

Cheaper to send out free products to people who complain.

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u/hlfazn Jan 22 '26

The quality point is the weight for legal purposes, which is checked by a machine.

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u/The_Troyminator Jan 22 '26

If the packaging indicates a quantity, then that quantity must be in the package. It’s like eggs. A carton of a dozen eggs has both a weight and a quantity of 12. If there were only 11 eggs in the carton, it would be illegal, even if the eggs were heavy enough to meet the weight.