To continue with the smaller sized tuna and coffee, gnat brought to our attention that Hellmans and Kraft have reduced the size of their mayo from 32 oz to 30 oz. Gotta keep an eye out for these deceptive practices at the store especially these days with tight budgets.
See #58 at http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2779823/posts?q=1&;page=51
I noticed the change in the size of mayonaise quite a while ago. I know it has at least been over a year since they changed to the smaller size for the mayonaise jars. We were discussing the size of the mayo containers on a thread somewhere on FR a then, but I don’t remember if it was on the cooking thread or not.
Ground coffee is another one that keeps changing to smaller and smaller size containers in terms of ounces.
Many packagings used to have ‘see thru’ windows.
I have noticed many no longer do.
What they are hiding includes product shrinkage and content shrinkage.
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Salad dressing containers have also dropped a few ounces.
I’m getting mighty sick of these packages shrinking - I know they are doing it to keep costs down (after the initial spending on re-packaging)and the prices keep going up anyways...*sigh* (Just think of how bad prices would be without the shrinking food....)
Recipes are starting to get messed up with the packaging shift - I think we may all end up weighing stuff like they do in Europe instead of saying ‘a can of this’ ‘a bag of that’ - the amounts are all off now....getting worse everyday.
Even messing with the sodium/fat contents on packaged items in recipes screws them up - they don’t act like they once did in recipes.