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Why your toilet paper is shrinking
Fortune/CNN ^
| 11/9/10
| Beth Kowitt
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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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Editorial; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: economy; shrinkage
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To: Daisyjane69
Haagen Dazs now sells its ice cream in 14 ounce packages instead of the former full pint.
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posted on
11/15/2010 6:05:32 AM PST
by
wintertime
(Re: Obama, Rush Limbaugh said, "He was born here." ( So? Where's the proof?))
To: listenhillary
To: Daisyjane69
"we at schooner tuna care, and during this period of economic crisis, Schooner will drop the price of each can of tuna, 50 cents".
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posted on
11/15/2010 6:12:23 AM PST
by
Rebelbase
(Palin/Christie 2012)
To: Celtic Cross
I knew it!! I have been looking at that roll thinking — I swear that is narrower than before. And I’ll bet anything that there is less of it.
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posted on
11/15/2010 6:19:38 AM PST
by
bboop
(Stealth Tutor)
To: FReepaholic
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posted on
11/15/2010 6:23:07 AM PST
by
bboop
(Stealth Tutor)
To: sodpoodle
forced to go ‘metric’
That happened with liquor a long time ago.....you could once get a half gallon of bourbon; it's been 1.75 liters for quite a few years.
Along this general line, when I was in the fish biz some shrimp packers from Asia and Australian packaged their blocks of shrimp in 2 kilo packs (4.4 pounds).....since the U.S. industry was totally accustomed to 5 pound blocks, fortunes got made by way of 're-marking' those shorter weight imports up to 5 pounders. Instant 10 percent extra profit.
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posted on
11/15/2010 6:24:28 AM PST
by
ErnBatavia
(It's not the Obama Administration....it's the "Obama Regime".)
To: FReepaholic
Yeah, but the one on the right is stronger.
To: LibLieSlayer
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posted on
11/15/2010 6:27:59 AM PST
by
Straight Vermonter
(Posting from deep behind the Maple Curtain)
To: Daisyjane69
I did, I’m a label reader.
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posted on
11/15/2010 6:31:41 AM PST
by
tiki
To: domenad
And Leon’s getting laaaaaaarger! Sneaks in an Airplane reference for the win! Lol!
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posted on
11/15/2010 6:32:27 AM PST
by
Malsua
To: domenad
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posted on
11/15/2010 6:35:03 AM PST
by
Straight Vermonter
(Posting from deep behind the Maple Curtain)
To: Daisyjane69; SonOfDarkSkies; Vaquero; Celtic Cross; LibLieSlayer; Venturer; OCCASparky; Zakeet; ...
My Groceries have been "Obamasized"
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posted on
11/15/2010 6:36:02 AM PST
by
frithguild
(The Democrat Party Brand - Big Government protecting Entrenched Interests from Competition)
To: 1rudeboy
Do what? Have you bought any toilet paper... Charmin, Northern... major brands? They are all 1.25 inches narrower.
LLS
To: tiki
” I did, I’m a label reader. “
I used to get really irritated at you people who would park in front of a shelf-section and minutely examine every label, when all I wanted to do was grab something and git —
Now I’m one of you.... ;)
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posted on
11/15/2010 6:37:28 AM PST
by
Uncle Ike
(Rope is cheap, and there are lots of trees...)
To: Second Amendment First
Sam’s has small rolls here now... all that they do have.
LLS
To: Hardastarboard
Manufacturers will eventually regret these moves.
LLS
To: Drumbo
Short terlit paper *ping*
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posted on
11/15/2010 6:44:57 AM PST
by
Titan Magroyne
(What one person receives without working for, another person must work for without receiving.)
To: frithguild
Gasoline jumped $0.15 a gallon over the past month....
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posted on
11/15/2010 6:48:42 AM PST
by
Vaquero
(BHO....'The Pretenda from Kenya')
To: Straight Vermonter
jimmuh catah... the second worst president in the history of the US... not to be confused with Welcome Back Kotter.
LLS
To: frithguild
My Groceries have been “Obamasized”
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
My husband and I are sitting here laughing and laughing. Very cute!
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posted on
11/15/2010 6:57:55 AM PST
by
wintertime
(Re: Obama, Rush Limbaugh said, "He was born here." ( So? Where's the proof?))
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