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All the corporate brands went through more rounds of enshitification recently, a few years ago I got subway for the first time in years, and realized it's way cheaper than it was, and more expensive. For one thing I noticed way way more salt in the veggies, salt disguises substandard ingredients, as does sugar and fat. So much salt I couldn't well eat it.
I pickle my own veggies, and don't use any salt, and it tastes fine, so I know there's not reason vegetables need that much salt on their own.
But talking to others, they also think they lowered the quality on all of these corporate joints sometime around 2021.
I like the term enshitification. I used the phrase “spreadsheeted the flavor out” many times over the years. And it’s true. They constantly shave quality so that the spreadsheets look better.
“Spreadsheeted the flavor out” is brilliant.
Everything had the quality spreadsheeted out of. I used to get some electronics from best buy. Battery banks, headphones, mp3 players. 2021 and on everything I got there was defective, including 3 mp3 players, all breaking within a couple of months, two with seeming bad soldering joints, one with programming that just went haywire. Battery bank was defective, headphones cheap. They refused to return any of it, making me mail it in for warranties if I wanted to do anything about it, insult to injury, search engines carried no results on these problems, despite them being widespread, systematic. The manufacturers are in league with google, et al, to suppress information about their defective products. The only results supplied were the help forums they moderated.
Maddening. But it's everything, even before that. All wiring has been downsized to the smallest size possible to still work, the soldering the cheapest and least amount, the insulation on the wire, the plastic on the coating, everything. Every fraction of a penny has been shaved off multiple times to the point that everything breaks prematurely as they cut down to the bone on quality.
But because everyone has been doing it in a race to the bottom, there are no other options, and they control information, now removing free internet results allowing most all people from finding each other online on their products. These businesses are in a Shittust, a Shit Trust, all agreeing to field shit products so they can maximize profit and not compete. They own the regulators, and own the judges (judges are a complicated tiered leasing program but they have senior leasing rights,) in case a regulator bucked the system, and they own congress that would interfere to protect them too.
Power tools now too, entire brands, never good, have gotten way worse. Ryobi for instance, cut to the bone in quality.
That sounds about right honestly. I remember last buying some pizza hut around 2022 and while it wasn't anything special, it wasn't as genuinely offensive as my recent experience with them