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Sun-Maid Raisins snack packs (six packs) have gotten much smaller (1/3 less raisins), but the price remains exactly the same. (Just noticed this personally this week at Walmart, but apparently this first happened several months ago.)

This shady Sun-Maid substitution shuffle can also be seen as another sorry reflection on B.O.'s stinky economy, and might further be related in some way to today's workers in the California grape vineyards.

Be sure to make full use of your consumer discretion...

1 posted on 07/30/2012 6:45:51 PM PDT by Heart-Rest
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To: Heart-Rest

Just like everything else that we’re getting short changed with.


2 posted on 07/30/2012 6:50:24 PM PDT by bgill
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Need to readjust the storage preps.


3 posted on 07/30/2012 6:51:48 PM PDT by bgill
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To: Heart-Rest

Everybody is doing it; selling you less product for the same price.


4 posted on 07/30/2012 6:54:08 PM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (Never believe anything in politics until it has been officially denied.)
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To: Heart-Rest

Actually, shrinking the package while keeping the price the same is not a new concept. Been going on for years, long before Obama came along. Consumer Reports often has articles about this.

One example: Cat litter. Used to buy the 16 pound size of scoopable litter. Then it shrank to 14 pounds. Now, it’s 13.5 pounds.

Of course, there are some companies which shrink the contents AND raise the price.


6 posted on 07/30/2012 6:55:08 PM PDT by fatnotlazy
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To: Heart-Rest

Everybody has been doing it for a couple of years, and it is going to get worse.


7 posted on 07/30/2012 6:56:28 PM PDT by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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They have to do it this way - if they just raised the price, it would show the true cost of inflation. Check how little is in a can of tuna, now (recently 5.5 ounces, now a flat 5 ounces. And I’m old enough to remember 6.5 ounce cans.) And surely you’ve noticed what happened to your roll of toilet paper.

My 64 ounce carton of orange juice is now in a 59 ounce jug.


9 posted on 07/30/2012 6:58:48 PM PDT by PAR35
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have gotten much smaller (1/3 less raisins), but the price remains exactly the same

The were Obamasized

11 posted on 07/30/2012 7:00:57 PM PDT by frithguild (You can call me Snippy the Anti-Freeper)
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To: Heart-Rest

They don’t give you 2 scoops?


17 posted on 07/30/2012 7:12:08 PM PDT by jimfree (In Nov 2012 my 12 y/o granddaughter will have more relevant executive experience than Barack Obama)
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22 posted on 07/30/2012 7:20:20 PM PDT by Daffynition (Our forefathers would be shooting by now.)
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I don’t see what’s wrong with taking scoops of grapes and drying them in an environmentally friendly fashion.


23 posted on 07/30/2012 7:23:45 PM PDT by A Strict Constructionist (We're an Oligrachy...Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God. Thomas Jefferson)
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To: Heart-Rest

Noticed my 5 pound bag of sugar seemed a little smaller. Not my imagination, its only 4 pounds.


25 posted on 07/30/2012 7:26:22 PM PDT by evaporation-plus
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Not sure where you can get these (if you still can) but Dole raisins are by far superior to the dried out Sun Maid raisins.


26 posted on 07/30/2012 7:26:27 PM PDT by netguide (Use this browser instead of Internet Exploder)
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To: Heart-Rest

The raisins don’t stay fresh for long either.


27 posted on 07/30/2012 7:31:31 PM PDT by Theodore R. (Past is prologue: The American people again let us down in this election cycle.)
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I buy Kroger raisins in the 12 oz or 24 oz vacuum pouch. Weight is weight unless they simply lie to me.....think I’ll take a pouch over to the produce scales and check it.


29 posted on 07/30/2012 7:35:32 PM PDT by citizen (It's no longer Obamacare. It's Robertscare now. He wanted it, he bought it, he owns it.nn)
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To: Heart-Rest
I've seen this happen with mixed nuts: 36 oz to 26 oz, no change in price
Beef Stew: 26 oz to 20oz, no change in price

And several others.

I've started putting on my grocery list the size I bought last time and the price. A real pain, but it beats getting screwed.

The mixed nuts price increase was 38%. That's hefty. But I found Planter's Mixed Nuts on Amazon for much less and free shipping.

35 posted on 07/30/2012 7:45:30 PM PDT by upchuck ("Definition of 'racist:' someone that is winning an argument with a liberal." ~ Peter Brimelow)
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Many product packages have experienced product shrinkage, without a corresponding price shrinkage.

Probably due to global warming. That seems to cause most other world problems.

lol


37 posted on 07/30/2012 7:53:32 PM PDT by TomGuy
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To: Heart-Rest

This decreasing size has been going on for years—can’t blame Obama for this.


41 posted on 07/30/2012 8:05:38 PM PDT by Mears
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I noticed this too but the competitor was similarly re-sized as well. I bought the competitor anyway.


45 posted on 07/30/2012 8:34:43 PM PDT by rockrr (Everything is different now...)
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To: Heart-Rest

Just figure out unit prices (per ounce) and go from there.

...of course if you ‘learned’ math using calculators, it’s probably not worth the time.


47 posted on 07/30/2012 8:43:20 PM PDT by BobL ( It's easy to be a saint when you have nothing on the line)
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This has been going on for at least two years. A lot of bacon brands are now 12-14 ounces, not a full pound. A half gallon of ice cream is now 1.75 quarts. Everything is shrinking, and shrinking how far our paycheck will go today. The only thing expanding is the price.


53 posted on 07/30/2012 9:27:15 PM PDT by mplsconservative (Impeach Obama Now!)
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