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Main bit I don't understand is who is eating cereal anymore? Literally don't think I've seen someone eat a bowl of cereal in twenty years.
by chrisseaton 5y ago
Main bit I don't understand is who is eating cereal anymore? Literally don't think I've seen someone eat a bowl of cereal in twenty years.
- jimt1234 5y agoI eat cereal almost every day. The only thing that's changed since I was a kid is the type of cereal. It used to be Trix and Froot Loops, then it was Honey Nut Cheerios, now it's Bob's Red Mill Homestyle Granola.
- codsane 5y agoKellogg’s sells a lot more than just cereal: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Kellogg%27s_brands https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Kellogg%27s_brands
- missedthecue 5y agoThey do over a billion dollars in sales every month. Post does a $2 billion per quarter, General Mills does $5 billion a quarter So a lot of people are eating cereal it seems.
- blamazon 5y agoIn that period have you seen someone eat Cheez-Its, Pop-Tarts, or Pringles? These are also Kellogg’s brands.
- chrisseaton 5y agoNot seem a Pop-Tart in about a decade. Doesn't really fit modern ideas of diets. Pringles I've seen at a few parties.
- bumblebritches5 5y ago
- silisili 5y agoI used to think the same thing, but realized I just got older. I don't know your experience, but we grew up low middle class at best and ate tons of cereal. Now that I'm older and more affluent, I guess I don't personally know anyone who really eats it anymore. But I also don't really know many kids, either. I assume it's still selling, supermarkets aren't dumb enough to devote an entire aisle to something nobody is buying.
- chrisseaton 5y agoThat's the funny thing - in the UK the cereal isle isn't a thing any more, it's gotten smaller and smaller and now it's just a few metres of shelving.
- silisili 5y agoAh, I didn't even think about other countries. Apologies. Here in the US, I can't think of a typical supermarket I've been to that doesn't devote an entire side of one aisle to it, even today.
- kome 5y agohi :) i do eat cereals, i like them.
- lotsofpulp 5y agoEveryone likes them, they are just nutritionally void at best, and straight candy at worst.
- Uehreka 5y agoKelloggs is one of those companies where you might know them from cereal, but they actually own a ton of food companies across a wide variety of verticals and just don’t put their logo on the boxes/cans. Like, if you’re in the US, you’ve likely never heard of Unilever, but you’ve bought a lot of food from them.
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- temp_praneshp 5y agoWere you working from home before the pandemic? The only place I've seen people eat cereal is coworkers at the office (across 3 companies).
- jasonladuke0311 5y agoDo you go to grocery stores? Even if you have never seen someone eating cereal, the fact that it takes up 20-40 feet of an aisle should make it obvious that many someones are buying it.
- chrisseaton 5y agoEven large supermarkets where I live only have 2-3 metres of cereals. Less than for example shelf space devoted to sherry.
- Volundr 5y agoMaybe it's regional? Here in Boise both Winco and Albertson's have a full aisle with both sides of the aisle dedicated to cereal.