Part of the problem is that corporate greed is just so prevalent everywhere that when I see higher prices, my immediate first thought is that they're just shafting us because they can. It could cost $0.02 more per unit to produce, and they'd still charge $10 more, if they thought they could get away with it.

"There is a gap between what people say they want and what they actually do at the purchasing point -- this is a difficulty for us," Oriol Margo, EMEA sustainability transformation leader at Kimberly-Clark, said on Thursday at the Reuters IMPACT conference in London.

"It feels like our consumers are asking for sustainability but they are not looking to compromise on price or quality."

I'm willing to compromise - as in, if it costs them $4 more to produce, they charge $2 more for it, we're splitting the difference. Fine. I don't believe that's what's happening. Maybe it is, but the perception is what matters, and we've been taking it up the ass for so long, it's hard to believe they're going to pull out on this one point.

No no no. Not won’t pay more. Can’t.

Food is 2-3x the price it was just a few years ago, yet you're gonna roll your eyes cause people can't afford even more expensive goods? Fuck off.

Alternative

“Consumers want more sustainable products, but corporations are scalpers”

People are already struggling to afford to buy the unsustainable options. If an alternative is offered but the cheaper one is still available people are going to buy the unsustainable option because it's short term better than straining their paychecks even further.

The solution isn't shaming consumers for picking the cheaper, unsustainable option. The solution is taxing the ultra wealthy and the corporation's producing unsustainable food and using that money to subsidise sustainable options and massively undercut the unsustainable products.

I will pay more. But not 10x more. Considering it isn't costing that to make it. Most products are only cheaper because I'm the one paying for the cleanups. If we actually paid for the real price of all the plastic shit without subsidies and they paid the cost of transportation and an actual living wage.

Then those sustainable products would be far cheaper.

I'm doing my part already. I barely eat meat anymore because grocery store trips that used to cost $50 are $125+. Fuck off with this abusive headline blaming consumers who can't afford premium goods. If price wasn't a factor you bet your ass I'd be shopping in th fancy premium grocery store that carries more organic, sustainable items. That food tastes better too.

Walmarts profits are up massively. You know why? Because everyone's budget is strapped and we're trying to save money. This is not a climate you can blame the consumer in.

Why should they pay more?

These companies have been driving people into the poor house for years. A nontrivial number of products started out as sustainable. The big business execs decided to save money and increase profit by moving their manufacturing to something that wasn't sustainable... all so they could get a bonus, or short term increase to their bottom line.

Did they pass any of those savings onto customers? Fuck no. They pocketed that cash faster than you can say "corruption".

Now that they want to reverse that decision, they want to pass off the cost of doing it the right way, to the consumer?

How about you go get fucked in the ass with a cactus you fucking money worshipping fuckheads.

How about our governments stop subsidising environmentally unsustainable things like meat and animal products and use that money for subsidising sustainable food so this price problem goes away?

None of these brands have rebuilt trust with the consumers.

These are all mega corporations that have chased profits over all else.

Why would I pay more for a promise that I cannot verify, from a company that only started caring after exhausting all other options; including lobbying to prevent cleaner products.

Rolling your eyes cause people are more often than not one surprise bill away from poverty don't wanna pay more for sustainable goods? Get outta here

Subsidize them like we do with unsustainable goods. Then stop subsidizing unsustainable ones.

We shouldn't have to pay more for good and ethical quality, especially in an inflation crisis/not crisis that the world has been going through in decades. People can't buy homes as it is! Solarpunk demands low or no prices.

Nothing new under the sun. Free market nor consumers as a category will regulate themselves. The unsustainable merch just has to stop existing or at least the sustainable one should be subsidized.

Companies say they want to make sustainable goods but won't make less profits.

Anyone else absolutely sick of seeing every product now coming in multipacks of smaller packages? You want a bag of chips? How about one big bag and 8 tiny bags to throw in the garbage? Even Pringles I saw had an 6 or 8 pack of individual little plastic cups. It's so much fucking waste material for nothing! Starbucks won't give my fiance a straw for her drink but these companies are allowed to do this shit?

Maybe capitalism just isn't compatible with environmentalism

One of my challenges is good labelling. A product can make the claim it's sustainable but products make a lot of bogus claims. I'd pay more if the label was worth a damn.

Record Profits means Record Exploitation

I can't afford food as it is, ever heard of inflation

They're really trying to push people to a breaking point. Aren't they? Read through these comments. Do these seem like people companies should be trying to squeeze even more?

If you have a sustainable business model your prices shouldn't need to increase

Just end Capitalism already.