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visible-disgust amount of money tossed around so casually.

Healthcare? Housing? Schools?

gangster-spongebob Naw mergers and aquisitions of spinoffs baby. BUY HIGH SELL LOW! WHOOO YOLO! smuglord (Also we're the adults in the room)

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 months ago

FYI Kellanova is the corporate name for Kellogg’s snack brands and cereal outside of North America. Weirdly, while WK Kelloggs (the NA cereal company) and Kellanova are separate companies now, they share the Kellogg’s brand name.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Plenty of money for war machine and treat mergers

>(Also we're the adults in the room)

debord-tired kitty-cri-potato I hate this place

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago (1 children)

They're gonna find a way to make Pringles worse???

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Mostly just shocked that there's still room to get crappier. That's like half the point of mergers and acquisitions, "I bet we could make some more profits by reducing quality lower than the company currently doing it and people would still buy it."

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

I agree. I wasn't being ironic—Pringles are one of my final treats that I still enjoy. This piggy is running out of slop. yummy

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Gotta update the recipe to include even more sawdust!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

I'm most excited about new proprietary flavor enhancers, I'll eat sawdust all day as long as it keeps my brain squirting dopamine

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago (1 children)

business consolidation especially in tech, food, and entertainment tells me there's just some really awful shit on the horizon - we like to act like these things are purely greed driven things, and while that's a huge element of why this shit happens, it also feels like... frankly, a more direct consolidation of power in anticipation of precipitous decline in material conditions for the folks without investiture in these rapidly consolidating and monopolized industries.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago
[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

Marxists: the material conditions are worsening marx-doomer

Capitalist libs: the treats are worsening doomjak

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

How come when this happens in most places most people can immediately smell the enshittification to come but in some media credulous rubes say "my treats will get cheaper/I will have more epic crossovers happening because the IPs have come together, don't care" instead? thinking-about-it

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

Cheese Nips were better anyway ...I'm being handed a note now saying they had a plastic contamination scandal and have been discontinued for 4 years

internet-delenda-est

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Real capitalism has never been tried

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

you-have-been-promoted Now who's ready for some layoffs?