Wait until you go to the grocery store this week,. I thought I'd faint.

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101. Been sending letters and writing e-mails all over the place to get consumer watchdogs to

make an issue of this. No such think as half gallon of ice cream or juice drinks anymore although they are put in look-alike containers to make you think they are the same. Most are 1/2 pint to 1 full pint less than the original package. This has been going on for over 20 years. The oil crisis was the first thing the food industry used to raise prices then when oil went down the food prices continued to go up. You pay more for less, the food conglomerates continue to make record profits every year and the poor and low middle class really suffer. I was hoping that the new consumer agency would at least look into this and at least force the food companies to boldly advertise a change in packaging amounts up front. How much profit do corporations and shareholders have to make be fore they are satisfied and create revolution? "Back in the day" there was investment and risk. Businesses were happy to make a reasonable return on investment...10%-30% was very good year. Now no one is happy unless they get a 500% return. Stock holders are also to blame for much of this, never caring about who sits on corporate boards or what they are doing. No one has a social conscience anymore. It would seem to me that a cycle of fairness needs to start somewhere from owners, down to employers, to managers, to workers, creating and maintaing a top standard of living for all. I guess that's whacky?
Maybe not. http://www.care2.com/care2blog/new-york-rolls-out-new-kind-of-corporation.html