![]() Next, we noticed the makers of this product claim that it’s backed by science – we couldn’t find any scientific research on this formula at all. This made us jump deeper into the ingredients to find out why. What we found were hordes of negative comments on taste. Our team headed straight for the customer reviews. Honey is sweeter than sugar and has more calories- can this ingredient support weight loss? The honey, they claim, supports healthy digestion and weight loss. Despite claims that Almased has “no added sugars,” our research team was concerned that 1/3 of the shake’s calories come from honey. And Walmart gets blamed again.Fact Checked | Overview | Customer Service | Claims | Ingredients | Weight Loss | Phases | Side Effects | Where to Buy | Warnings | What Users Are Saying | Bottom Line | Almased Alternatives | Q&AĪlmased is a “weight loss phenomenon” meal replacement powder. Prices might drop a little but at the expense of quality. So regulators believe the myth that consolidation brings on better buying power, wholesalers cut quality to meet price pressure and Walmart still gets the bulk of the business. They probably don't know that a product may be availalble at a competitor for a lower price, or that a store brand at the other store is actually better than name brand (or fits their tastes better), because they aren't going to shop there unless something radical happens. If the quality goes down on even a few items they'll look elsewhere. Most people aren't going to go around every store and comparison shop everything. It doesn't fit on a spreadsheet no matter how many customer surveys you run. I'll even pay a bit of a premium for some items.īut regulators cannot measure product quality on any tangable level. I find many of their products superior to City Market/Kroger. I drive out of my way to shop at Safeway. As a Kroger employee told the Dispatch: "Most everyone I talk to on a daily basis feel the union has sold us out because they did nothing but encourage people to vote yes by saying things like 'this is all Kroger has to give.'" For context: the median home sale price here in Columbus is ~$350k and rents for decent apartments are $1,200+. The strike didn't actually happen, and they reached a deal with the company that improves starting wages to only $14.25 an hour, with a $2 an hour increase over the three-year life of the contract. Amid all the recent labor market upheavals, about 12,500 unionized Kroger employees here in Ohio just voted down a recent contract offer from the company and authorized a strike. One imagines this merger will be bad news for the folks cutting meat and bagging groceries in the merged company too, who are already feeling the squeeze from Kroger. Let these morally bankrupt greedheads merge into one mega-grocery juggernaut? I don't think so. While people are suffering and struggling to deal with inflation. The whole goal seems to be: drive up unit sales, drive up total take (well, not on the water), force people to get more than they want, so you can make your quarterly numbers. You are forced to buy way more than you want. You will see them priced at $2 a unit in a convenience store, or you will see them priced in 24-packs in groceries for as little as 2.99, while six packs are priced much higher. Pick another brand? Nope, they collude, the prices are either identical or feature the same 'pay a premium to get less'.īottled water is insane (again, I don't care if you are virtuous and use a stainless steel bottle with tap water, lots of working people need this convenience). Why? Because she has more money and more room. A soccer mom with a giant garage stocks up and buys ahead. A poor person with a small apartment, pantry, or small budget gets the one unit and pays 6.98. I don't want to discuss the worthiness of soda drinking, because this tactic is now used on lots of other 'real' foods, this is just one I have noticed is particularly annoying in my life. An example I photographed this summer because it was particularly offensive: a Coke12-pack. Now, it's often an outrageous difference between the cost of one unit and multiples. ![]() ![]() They seem benign at first glance, and in decades past you might have gotten a little 15% advantage buy buying multiples of a product. Supermarkets now are full of 2-for, 3-for, 4-for deals. Kroger has been a leader in taxing the poor. I just want to bring up an issue that hits millions of people hard, and I suspect this merger will just make it worse.
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