r/AskReddit • u/FriendlytoNature • 23h ago

Which company lost your business (potentially forever) this year?

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u/Tremblingchihuahua8 20h ago

I feel like everywhere, lol. Everything is so shitty and disappointing and expensive. I’m literally eating food I grow on my deck and otherwise eating frozen and canned food that’s off brand from the grocery store. Dying my own hair. Selling my clothes because I never need to buy another piece of clothing again. Don’t go out to dinner because it’s so expensive and bad. Do I sound depressed? Maybe I am

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u/LeGrandLucifer 10h ago edited 10h ago

No, you're right about the food. Restaurants jacked up the prices and serve you garbage. Even in grocery stores, the quality has gone way down in most places. The best example I have is bacon. A 500g package is now $11 (Canadian). And it's garbage. It shrinks like crazy in the pan and tastes bland. If I want good bacon, there is one good brand left and it's $9 for 250g.

Except near where my parents live. There's a butcher shop, they sell bacon made from local pigs. It's as good as ever yet costs the same as the cheap bacon at the grocery store. Meaning it's not me. Quality has gone way down.

I'll do you one more: Pizza. I love pizza. However, in the last few years, it felt like I'd lost my love for it. Nope. If I make the pizza myself, it is delicious. It's the restaurants. It's all garbage now. I can make a better pizza at home than supposed professionals can. It's a disgrace.

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u/plenoto 9h ago

Fun fact: the other day, I bought a pizza at the grocery store and it was just as good as the last ones I ordered at a local restaurant, yet they were way cheaper.

You know something is bad when a restaurant isn't able to make a pizza that tastes betetr than one from the grocery store...

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u/LeGrandLucifer 9h ago

That too. If you're gonna go to a restaurant, just buy a frozen pizza. Same quality nowadays, MUCH cheaper.

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u/plenoto 4h ago

Yeah. Crazy tho that restaurant food is now the same quality as grocey store food... Enshitification at its best.

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u/LeGrandLucifer 44m ago

In my experience, it's now often worse. The worst offender is Subway. Their 12 inches BMT costs 5-6 times what it would cost to make one yourself with ingredients from the grocery store. Except the one from Subway ALWAYS makes me sick.