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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.
61 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?))
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To: listenhillary

Just got a 15 pounder...


62 posted on 11/15/2010 6:06:46 AM PST by Eric in the Ozarks (Impeachment !)
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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".
63 posted on 11/15/2010 6:12:23 AM PST by Rebelbase (Palin/Christie 2012)
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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.


64 posted on 11/15/2010 6:19:38 AM PST by bboop (Stealth Tutor)
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To: FReepaholic

Wow, it’s MiniMe.


65 posted on 11/15/2010 6:23:07 AM PST by bboop (Stealth Tutor)
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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.

66 posted on 11/15/2010 6:24:28 AM PST by ErnBatavia (It's not the Obama Administration....it's the "Obama Regime".)
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To: FReepaholic

Yeah, but the one on the right is stronger.


67 posted on 11/15/2010 6:25:58 AM PST by RFEngineer
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To: LibLieSlayer

What is catah?


68 posted on 11/15/2010 6:27:59 AM PST by Straight Vermonter (Posting from deep behind the Maple Curtain)
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To: Daisyjane69

I did, I’m a label reader.


69 posted on 11/15/2010 6:31:41 AM PST by tiki
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To: domenad
And Leon’s getting laaaaaaarger!

Sneaks in an Airplane reference for the win! Lol!

70 posted on 11/15/2010 6:32:27 AM PST by Malsua
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To: domenad

LOL!


71 posted on 11/15/2010 6:35:03 AM PST by Straight Vermonter (Posting from deep behind the Maple Curtain)
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To: Daisyjane69; SonOfDarkSkies; Vaquero; Celtic Cross; LibLieSlayer; Venturer; OCCASparky; Zakeet; ...
My Groceries have been "Obamasized"
72 posted on 11/15/2010 6:36:02 AM PST by frithguild (The Democrat Party Brand - Big Government protecting Entrenched Interests from Competition)
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To: 1rudeboy

Do what? Have you bought any toilet paper... Charmin, Northern... major brands? They are all 1.25 inches narrower.

LLS


73 posted on 11/15/2010 6:36:37 AM PST by LibLieSlayer (WOLVERINES!)
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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.... ;)


74 posted on 11/15/2010 6:37:28 AM PST by Uncle Ike (Rope is cheap, and there are lots of trees...)
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To: Second Amendment First

Sam’s has small rolls here now... all that they do have.

LLS


75 posted on 11/15/2010 6:42:15 AM PST by LibLieSlayer (WOLVERINES!)
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To: Hardastarboard

Manufacturers will eventually regret these moves.

LLS


76 posted on 11/15/2010 6:43:41 AM PST by LibLieSlayer (WOLVERINES!)
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To: Drumbo

Short terlit paper *ping*


77 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.)
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To: frithguild

Gasoline jumped $0.15 a gallon over the past month....


78 posted on 11/15/2010 6:48:42 AM PST by Vaquero (BHO....'The Pretenda from Kenya')
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To: Straight Vermonter
jimmuh catah... the second worst president in the history of the US... not to be confused with Welcome Back Kotter.

LLS

79 posted on 11/15/2010 6:50:31 AM PST by LibLieSlayer (WOLVERINES!)
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To: frithguild
My Groceries have been “Obamasized”
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My husband and I are sitting here laughing and laughing. Very cute!

80 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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