SCIENCE said:

Michael V said:

Divine Angel said:

My school offers free lunches for kids from disadvantaged families. At the end of last year, the charity we used told us they could no longer provide food as requests for their services has tripled. So the P&C kindly donate to make up the shortfall; disadvantaged families have also increased within the school.

:(

:(

:(

but there’s the thing, has the population dramatically grown, has farm output dramatically fallen, how is routine and standard essential sustenance getting out of reach so extensively

PepsiCo Inc.’s chips prices had gotten too high. Walmart Inc. had been telling the maker of Doritos, Lay’s, Cheetos and many other beloved snacks that was the case for more than a year.

Executives at PepsiCo knew it, too. Sales at Frito-Lay, the company’s snacks powerhouse, were plunging. Some of its chips cost more than $7 a bag; at Walmart, Doritos prices had jumped nearly 50% from 2021, according to Attain, which tracks consumer spending data.

Yet, even when Walmart cut Frito-Lay’s shelf space — giving it to its own cheaper, in-house brand and competitors like Takis — price tags didn’t go down.

Finally, in February PepsiCo announced it would slash prices by up to 15% on some salty snacks. By then, Frito-Lay had missed internal revenue targets for two years in a row by over a billion dollars, according to people familiar with the matter.

Executives at PepsiCo had been debating what to do about the pricing issue since at least as far back as 2024, when Frito-Lay’s revenues turned negative, according to people familiar with the matter. Nobody wanted to be responsible for a short-term revenue blow dealt by slashing prices, according to the people, who asked not to be named discussing internal matters. So the company tried anything else that might lure customers: promotions, shrinkflation. None of it worked.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2026-04-07/pepsico-cuts-chip-prices-after-7-doritos-hurt-frito-lay-sales