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Just got back from the grocery store and as I was putting away the two loaves of bread I bought in the fridge crisper drawer, I noticed they dropped right in whereas in the past, I'd have to kinda push them down into the drawer, as it was a tight fit.

It appears that bakers are now baking shorter loaves of bread, about 2-3 slices shorter then before and of course the price remains the same.

Anybody else notice this?

>> No.6870315

This has been happening for at least ten years. Used to in the store you could buy a loaf or a sandwich loaf, and the sandwich loaf was a lot longer. They shrank the longer loaf so much that they now just have one loaf and charge the same prices they were for the longer one - and even that one is now shorter than it used to be.

I bake my own bread at home now, in huge batches (4-8 loaves) and freeze most of it.

>> No.6870316

>bread in the fridge

Nice b8

>> No.6870325

>>6870307
Length of loaf is irrelevant.

Weight of loaf matters. Check the package to see if that changed.

And it's quite possible that it did get shorter. As inflation goes up so do the cost of foods. Sometimes that means the price goes up. Other times the price stays the same but the amount of food in the package goes down.

>> No.6870328

>>6870325
Yep, and more pleb/common foods it can be the latter case, although with something like milk or eggs where people want to buy a certain amount and there's no obvious way to drink it like a singular loaf of bread, the price just goes up.

>> No.6870337

>buying bread

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>>6870315
> This has been happening for at least ten years.

That hasn't been my experience, I only noticed it about a month ago because as I mentioned, I keep my bread in the crisper drawer and it was immediately clear that the loaves are now shorter then before.

>>6870316

It's not "b8", keeping the bread in the fridge makes it last longer.

>>6870325
> Check the package to see if that changed.

I don't keep empty bread bags around.

>> No.6870369
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>>6870337
>buying bread

I know, right?!

I of course grow my own wheat using only heritage grain, harvest it using an all natural horse drawn reaper and hand-grind it with an Anasazi grinding stone....

>> No.6870373

>>6870369
Obese people are so funny.

>> No.6870375

>>6870369
Same guy as above who makes his own bread, it's a pain in the ass sometimes. Some days after a long work week in between bakes I end up buying shit at the store anyways. Don't let it bother you. If you don't have a mixer, it's an even larger pain in the dick.

>> No.6870394

>>6870307
Simple. There's this thing called inflation, but people don't actually want to pay more for items. To assuage these concerns, it's more marketable to keep the price the same while sell less of the product, in this case, a few less ounces of bread.

>> No.6870412

>>6870394
Which is silly, because all it amounts to is trying to extract more profit. The price of gas has gone way down, and the price of wheat certainly hasn't skyrocketed.

>> No.6870419

>>6870412
Not the cost of wheat maybe, but the cost of paying workers, renting/buying equipment, maintaining a profit margin that the shareholders are comfortable with, etc. Inflation affects everything across the board and if people aren't willing to pay more money for the same amount of product something's got to give.

>> No.6870424

>>6870419
True story, labor definitely has become the most expensive aspect of almost every consumable.

>> No.6870432

>>6870424
Well yeah, why do you think we make our clothing in third world countries.

>> No.6870434

>>6870432
I can't wait until our robotic factories are up and running in the US to make all this shit, with just a few engineers to run things.

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6870443

>fridge crisper drawer

>> No.6870451

>>6870434
It'll be tough to design and implement, plus many people will lose their jobs, but it is a necessary advancement.

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>>6870419
>maintaining a profit margin that the shareholders are comfortable with

There's the primary issue.

Agriculture nowadays is dominated by mega-corporate entities beholden to the parasitical Wall Street "investor class".

>> No.6870477

>>6870454
No need to go full communist there.
There are plenty of NGOs whose purpose of conglomeration is to reduce prices to their bare minimum to help third world and starving nations.

>> No.6870502

>>6870360
You take the bread out of the packaging and the place it in the refrigerator drawer? That seems nasty as fuck.

>> No.6870527

>>6870502
>You take the bread out of the packaging and the place it in the refrigerator drawer?

What?! No, I put the bagged bread in the crisper drawer, which can take two loaves.

>> No.6870557

>>6870527
do you shout "YEAH, TAKE IT YOU DIRTY CRISPER DRAWER WHORE! TAKE BOTH OF MY LOAVES AT ONCE YOU LITTLE SLUT!" while you do so?

>> No.6872164

>>6870527

What about condensation?

>> No.6872185

>>6870360
>keeping the bread in the fridge makes it last longer

Not true. Bread goes stale much faster when refrigerated vs. storing it at room temperature.

>> No.6872201

>>6872185
Its all the same to people with taste who eat delicious warm and toasted bread.

>> No.6872244

>buying bread
>Eating bread you bought
>Digesting bought bread
>utilizing the macromolecules leeched from the market bread
>shitting store-bought bread

enjoy your cancer.

>> No.6872255

>>6872244
Hey, nothing wrong with buying unsliced bread from a real bakery.

>> No.6872352

>>6872244
>not creating a universe from scratch for the most homemade bread so you don't have to rely on market atoms

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>>6870454

>> No.6872642

>>6872201
my dude

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>>6872185
>>keeping the bread in the fridge makes it last longer
>Not true. Bread goes stale much faster when refrigerated vs. storing it at room temperature.

Except it is true and while the second loaf may be a bit drier then the first one, (due to the cold) it's not stale at all.

>> No.6872687

>>6870434
When that happens people will get neither food nor money.