Posted on 03/31/2008 11:16:07 AM PDT by notbuyingit2
I have had it with manufacturers that don't match up products that go together with identical amounts. We all are familiar with the old 8 hot dogs and 10 hot dog buns conundrum. Well, now I have another situation - I love the 12 packs that hold a dozen soft drinks but my refrigerator has a specific space made for soft drinks but (you guessed it) it only holds 10 cans. For heavens sake, whey can't they match? Is that too much to ask?
Drink two on the way home - problem solved!
I like cheese. Do you like cheese?
An old vaudeville act. Haven’t seen it since 1992. Who used to do this? Carlin?
What a great country we live in when this is what upsets our day.
Well, there’s always the Democrat Party. Their policies and reality don’t match either.
How many licks does it take to get to the center of a Tootsie Roll Tootsie Pop?
I clipped my dogs’ toenails today.
[Steve Martin as George Banks, in Father of the Bride, fixing the problem his own way:]
Store clerk: “Sir, what are you doing?”
“I’ll tell you what I’m doing. I want to buy eight hot dogs and eight hot dog buns to go with them. But no one sells eight hot dog buns. They only sell twelve hot dog buns. So I end up paying for four buns I don’t need.”
“So I am removing the superfluous buns. Yeah. And you want to know why?! Because some big-shot over at the wiener company got together with some big-shot over at the bun company and decided to rip off the American public! Because they think the American PUBLIC is a bunch of trusting NIT-WITS who will pay for everything they don’t NEED rather than make a stink!”
“Well they’re not ripping off this nitwit anymore. Because I’m not paying for one more thing I don’t need. George Banks is saying NO!!”
Ok, that’s funny!
It is all a marketing tactic, and a brilliant one at that. (with the exception of the refrigerator example that is probably just a space engineering issue). Let’s say you buy a ten pack of hot dogs. You have to now buy two six-packs packs of buns to have a bun for each dog. When you eat all your dogs, you have four buns left, thus putting a subliminal thought in your head you need more dogs because the pattern is incomplete..and so on..
It seems like it would be better marketing if they did things that made people’s lives easier not harder. Just a thought. :)
You’re supposed to put the two extra cans in the freezer so they get cold real fast. By the time you’ve consumed those two the other 10 will be cooled by the refrigerator.
If you’d read the memo when it was distributed you would know this.
Clearly this is just another attempt to force Americans to adopt the metric system through social engineering.
Yeah, but I always forget that the cans are in the freezer and they explode and make a BIG mess.
I would bet you dime to dollar, things like this are weighted as nullation- in that most people don't make a conscious thought of the 'disadvantage', they are driven by instinct or habit. Making people's lives 'easier' isn't always in the best interest. For example, have you ever been to a store and bought one thing and the item it requires is far away from the item you bought? (such as paper to go with a printer or the buns to go with the hotdog.) It would make people's lives easier if they put those items together, yes. By putting those items far apart, however, you force the consumer to walk across the store, thus providing more sight opportunity for other products- increasing the chance of more sales.
A lot of research goes into determining what products would produce a positive result- where people would be mindless of the extra work it takes- such as hot dogs and buns, versus say, the extra work would cause a negative reaction (separating paint and brushes at a hardware store for example.)
In the latter example (paint and brushes), you are dealing with a product someone purchases at a single point, thus, convenience is a selling point. In the former example (hot dogs & buns) the consumer generally purchases those as part of a larger shopping touchpoint, and thus, they will be mindless of the inconvenience. The mixed quantities are the same. People are generally mindless of the difference when shopping because it is a small touchpoint in a larger experience. It is also a regular activity/pattern that consumers have been trained to continue. Out of dogs, but have buns- buy more dogs.. out of buns but have dogs, buy more buns.. etc etc.. the cycle keeps going.
THE GOVERNMENT SHOULD DO SOMETHING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
THIS SHOWS THE FAILURES OF “FREE MARKET” CAPITALISM. WE NEED CENTRAL PLANNING!!!!
So, tell me, Rabbi, why are Hebrew National Franks seven to a pack, yet hot dog rolls are 6 or 8 to a pack?
Because they answer to a Higher Power.
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