"Sheryl "I stopped using THAT finger years ago" Crow"
Posted on 11/15/2010 4:20:19 AM PST by Daisyjane69
Everything shrinks in a recession: GDP, investment portfolios, even the products on store shelves. Consumer goods companies know that customers won't go for price increases during a downturn. Instead they often use a different tactic to offset things such as new competition or the rising cost of raw materials: cutting quantity while maintaining price. Yet it may not be obvious that your ice cream or OJ containers have shrunk. Manufacturers must note new specs on packaging, but the changes don't have to be advertised (ever seen a now smaller! label?).
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Remember 20lb propane tanks?
” Replies are more numerous and substantial as well “
Naaahhh - we just pump ‘em up with hot air and inert fillers to make ‘em look that way...
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A 20 pound bag of charcoal went to 18 pounds a few years ago. Now it’s 15 pounds...If you buy that brand of charcoal, a polar bear will come visit you to give you a hug in your driveway!
A 20 pound bag of charcoal went to 18 pounds a few years ago. Now it’s 15 pounds...
If you buy that brand of charcoal, a polar bear will come visit you to give you a hug in your driveway!
True. And many products raise prices as well as reducing container sizes. Coffee comes to mind. First the containers shrunk and then prices soared.
Potato chips are on my food pyramid.
Four years ago I could buy the store brand chips in a one lb. box for 99¢. Today that store brand is 6 oz. for 99¢. For major brands, the best deal I can find is the on sale two for one price - $3.99 for two 13 oz. bags. And I see that some flavors of chips are down to 11.75 oz. It’s time for a potato chip party in Boston harbor. I do have warpaint.
When manufacturers are forced to go ‘metric’ because of the ‘Global’ economy - they will use the opportunity to reduce product/quantity size again.
Anyone notice the smaller patties in McDonald’s McDouble sandwiches? The patties aren’t even round anymore, more like oval-shaped.
Can anyone explain why the per ounce price is often higher on larger sizes than the smaller ones? I think I know: a conscious effort to fool the buyer.
I've been in the pool!!
That was supposed to have happened many years ago in all fields but Americans resisted (especially with gasoline). Of course it has happened in some products.
Frito-Lay has played this game for years.
"Sheryl "I stopped using THAT finger years ago" Crow"
False. The notion that shrinking packages are unaccounted-for when inflation is calculated is an economic myth.
It’s like everything else, we must learn to live with LESS as Obama drives us into poverty. Inflation will raise the price as we get less for our money. Besides we MUST worship the EARTHand go to all EXTREMES to preserve the environment. Ideally they’d like U.S. to not use toilet paper and have our loo be the outdoors and save it as compost.
You don't miss the water 'til the well runs dry...
Can’t remember the brand, but I went to buy a bag of chips at Wally World a few weeks ago and the damned thing was less that half full. The bag, however, was fully inflated to make it LOOK like it was full.
Grrrr.
Disagree.
What a relief! I thought my butt was getting bigger.
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