Posted on 07/08/2021 11:15:05 AM PDT by blam
I’ve already seen 1.25qts of ice cream in the grocery stores.
Fewer slices of pepperoni on your pizza.
It’s a pendulum swing. We cycle through both ends every decade or so. Shrink product to maintain price, then “new bigger size” to increase price.
Ok, so next up is the one quart half gallon of ice cream.
Ya think? Toilet paper rolls now look like a roll of duct tape. But, no one notices (wink, wink).
All major vendors have individual specific deals with all the different chains that carry their goods.
Walmart gets a certain size box of stuff at a certain price. Dollar General gets slightly different size box of stuff with confusing prices. 7-11 and Quiky~Mart get the smallest containers with modified graphics to make it look the biggest of all 3 at psycho prices. Local grocery stores will get you more bang for your buck every time across the entire grocery counter.
I am biased. I own a grocery store
...and the NPR gang should be the 1st ones led to the gallows in a proper “reset”.
Community Coffee very popular and good (no chicory) New Orleans brand. I saw some at CVS a few weeks ago and didn’t get it because I didn’t need coffee, but wish I had.
Many of my favorite recipes over the years call for one 14 oz can or 16 oz package of this or that. Now that everything is shrinking, it’s annoying to measure out the miss portion and try to preserve the unused 2nd package of food.
There is no swing. It is a constant commercialized manipulation of packaging to out wit last cycles missed sales. Every major food company is involved. Its part of the business. Articles like this fall into the waiting eyes of those looking for someone to blame in this very moment.
I remember in the 70’s when the one pound can of coffee became a 13 ounce “pound” of coffee.
Quarter Pounder aint half the size it used to be!
“This has been going on for a long time”
The 50’s at least, but likely forever. Writers (and now clickbait bloggers) keep re-discovering the accordioning of sizing and pricing every few years as though it’s a major discovery.
In 1959 a candy bar was a nickel (cue the guy from Seinfeld).
Later on, a candy bar grew in size and became a dime. And then it gradually shrank back down.
Then, what do you know. It grew back and was fifteen cents. Rinse and repeat.
Summary: Products grow and shrink and you either pay or don’t. Folks know what’s going on - they aren’t fooled. But they either want the candy bars or they don’t. Apparently they do, at whatever the size and price. But the candy bars don’t just shrink down to nothing (except for the mini-size, and those bags may shrink too, but again, not down to nothing).
Summary of summary: Blogger discovers shrinkage again.
was 3/4’s full or more when I was a kid.
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Full when I was a kid. Candy was pennies too
There was shrinkage.
Compare the size of a Big Mac of today to one from 20 years ago. I bet it’s only 2/3 the size or smaller.
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Compare the size of a White Castle burger of today to one from 40 years ago ... can you say postage stamp?
“A couple of weeks ago, Edgar Dworsky walked into a Stop & Shop grocery store in Somerville, Mass., like a detective entering a murder scene.”
We used to call this yellow journalism, or maybe just bad over-dramatization. Now I just call it clickbait.
“Compare the size of a Big Mac of today to one from 20 years ago. I bet it’s only 2/3 the size or smaller”
I’m sure that’s true, although I don’t order them. But the muffin on my Egg McMuffin still matches the fried egg (?)
What’s less healthy than Cocoa Puffs?
I remember when a can of tuna made two good sized sandwiches.
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