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Kraft Heinz’s new CEO wants food giant to focus on value: ‘Consumers are literally running out of money’
(www.independent.co.uk)
this post was submitted on 09 May 2026
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"How can we make the mac and cheese any cheaper?"
"Fake cheese?"
"Shrinkflation?"
"Make the pasta out of saw dust."
"We don't make it cheaper, we just deploy a big expensive PR campaign that tells people it's cheaper, and publicly disparage and defame anyone who calls us on it, and spend millions to lobby Congress to make it illegal to contradict corporate PR."
"Edible box?"
"...yeah, just like John's wife.."
"Dang it, Steve. We're trying to save money & now we have to call Human Resources back in"
HR.AI has entered the chat.
We just had a meeting where HR told us to use the new AI in our payroll app before coming to see her. The GM mumbled "why are we paying for HR then?" Probably not a smart move on her part actively pushing for AI to replace her.
Exactly. She should be making an effort to show how bad it is haha.
Who do you report HR AI to after the HR AI spent 50 million tokens on turning the meeting notes into a fanfic "to boost morale"?
"John's Wife and the Night Visitors"
You report them to accounting. You should make a script to ask it random questions on loop all day.
“The chatbot has judged thee unworthy.”
That's roughly where we are heading given the current situation
I'm surprised it's not already true.
The retail markup is probably the largest part of the orice