[DarkWaters]

Pathetic. The PR department is out there talking about respectable eating and such when this move is anything but that. It is about the bottom line of the company and nothing else. Look at the price of raw ingredients, they are up and anyone in the business knows that they are going to continue to go up. They have to pass on the cost to the consumer, but that isn't as easy as it sounds. This is why they reduce cost in more creative ways that you will notice less. We have seen it with other items such as Ice cream half gallon containers (they where reduced in size twice from my recollection), and such. Consumers more readily notice price increase than the others and those price increase will trigger a cut down on what they buy or stop buying all together but there is of course a limit to quantity/weight reduction and hence why they tag on to these “health campaigns” which is the slight of hand trick. I don't blame them either as they have to run a business in this type of environment much of which is caused by government in the economy but I just cannot stand the disengenousnous of how they go about an do it. The break down of any moral, ethic, and basic decency is just spreading like wild fire, but that is what ultimately happens in an inflationary environment.

[gogogodzilla]

The reality is that all the ingredients of a candy bar are increasing in price. So, by shrinking the size of the candy bar, Mars can sell you less for the same price...

...and make you think that they are doing so for your own benefit.

(Like P.T. Barnum said, “There’s a sucker born every minute.”)

[Gator113]

But will they still cost only a nickel??

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yhlfy5Gc2nM

[Right Wing Assault]

Ah, more “fun size” candy. What a gyp! When I was a kid, candy bars were the size of blackboard erasers. Now they are like credit cards.

I noticed recently that a piece of facial tissue is going toward the “fun size,” too.

I don’t feel like buying anything anymore!

[desertfreedom765]

Funny how hard it is for some people/companies/government to be honest these days.

Just admit that costs are rising and be done with it.

[desertfreedom765]

Funny how hard it is for some people/companies/government to be honest these days.

Just admit that costs are rising and be done with it.

[AZLiberty]

During the Nixon price controls, the cheese slice on the Filet-O-Fish became so thin you could see through it. It has never recovered.