Posted on 11/15/2010 4:20:19 AM PST by Daisyjane69
Hell. I know a company that blends 10,000 gallons of vodka at a time and packages it in several different bottle sizes and types (glass/plastic). They'll run a batch of the high-end label, then several mid-range labels, and then the low-end labels. It's exactly the same product going into all the bottles, but the price point varies on the label.
ROTFLOL!
A month ago, a 50 lb bag was $13.40. Yesterday it was $17.56. That's a 31% increase in price on a basic foodstuff commodity.
We are going to see massive price increases in food and everything else, soon!
*** but the changes don’t have to be advertised (ever seen a now smaller! label?).***
Years ago a famous dish washing detergent downsized. The new bottle was advertized....”NEW! EASIER TO GRASP BOTTLE!”
It was the same price as the old bottle but several oz. lighter.
And dog food was 50 lb, now 40.
Cat food 20 lb now 16 lb.
Same for chicken feed and cattle feed at some stores, 40 lb.
Tuna still comes in the same sized can but I noticed it is not as full.
Not long ago, Tuna Fish came in 6-3/4 ounce tins. Now they are much smaller.
(I suspect they shrunk from 8oz sometime before I remember)
I noticed a few weeks ago that our newspaper is not as wide as it used to be.
I also heard directly from a guy who worked for Anheuser Busch in the '80's that at that time at least due to the complexity of the piping in the plant they couldn't really tell you which beer went into which bottles. You might be getting Busch in Michelob bottles, or vice versa.
Note: That's what he told me. I don't have any independent verification, but wouldn't be surprised if it's true.
It can happen. In Boise, Idaho, there is a fuel terminal (big tank farm) where gasoline and diesel is brought in from Salt Lake City, Utah via a pipeline. IIRC, the terminal is owned by Chevron. At the terminal, there are position holders who buy and sell fuel back and forth as demand dictates (remember, all this fuel is still stored in the same tanks). These position holders are usually big name companies, but not always. These position holders then sell to distributors, who may own one or many brands in the area. Or, they may just distribute to independent, unbranded stations.
Since all the fuel is stored in huge tanks, then, yes, all the gas you buy in the area came from the same place. However, the big boys (Chevron, Texaco, Phillips, etc...), usually add their patented products (Techron, Clean System 3, etc...) to the gasoline when they load the fuel on the trucks. The driver will swipe a card and enter a key code. This tells the system to start pumping fuel into the truck. At the same time, octane is set and fuel additives are injected into the fuel as the fuel is pumped through the "rack" to the truck. The additives and fuel continue to mix together as the trucks drive to the station where it will be pumped into the underground tanks.
if you put an item all my itself and all the items are the same price, you don't KNOW at the time you're getting ripped off...
the best mayo...Helmans/Best...is onlly 30oz compared to the normal 32 oz of other brands....
your cereals are outrageous...I think I found a generic for Wheaties though so Wheaties can go suck eggs...
I am getting sick of the shrinking package crap. European packages are getting bigger than ours by comparison.
Agree. I have just stopped buying some things or reverted to the store brand just because I find the smaller packages insulting.
No, the tuna cans are smaller.
It helps to have the perspective of time.
I can remember my folks making the very same complaints all the posters have made, same price, smaller size.
That was back in the 50's and 60's.
If the manufacturers haven't regreted it in the last 50 or 60 years, it's not going to be in our lifetimes.
LLS
Yep, I remember when wheaties, and other cereals, would last a family of four at least a few days, but now, over the years, they have shrunk and the prices are outrageous.
Thanks for that in depth explanation. It makes perfect sense, and now I know something that I didn’t know before.
Wrong!
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