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"Massively loud"? Hearing loss caused by a bag of chips? lol
Come on.
Wait til we have inoperable farming land and a horribly polluted environment to live in then talk about loss!
I didn't say it specifically will cause it through the use it, I think I noted such, so please do not falsely summarize me.
But it does reach a level of 90-95db, which is past the level of the beginning hearing loss levels. That is not to say that people don't run into this level normally through every day occurence, but its a chip bag and it didn't have this problem before.
Here is a demonstration of a man who measured the levels with a db meter.
I don't really eat them, so it doesn't have an effect on me. Personally, I don't think it wrong of people to object to something they dislike of a product and if there is enough demand (apparently there was as they dropped in sales roughly 11% because of it), then what they did was right. After all, a business serves the public, not the other way around. Lets face it, the issue here is people didn't like them and stopped buying them. If that is wrong, then that should disappoint people a lot more.
I didn't say it specifically will cause it through the use it, I think I noted such, so please do not falsely summarize me.
But it does reach a level of 90-95db, which is past the level of the beginning hearing loss levels. That is not to say that people don't run into this level normally through every day occurence, but its a chip bag and it didn't have this problem before.
Here is a demonstration of a man who measured the levels with a db meter.
As I said, it isn't even the point I specifically focused on, but you didn't believe me, so there you go.
It's not that I didn't believe you, but the idea of it in itself is just so ridiculous.
If that bag is so loud that certain people lose their hearing how in the world do they manage to get through the day with other loud noises? Dogs barking, traffic, construction, kids, jets flying overhead, peoples music booming in their cars, and so on! Guess they better live in a bubble.
I am not a Sun Chip eater, or any chip eater really....so it's not that I'm defending them but it just seems like a silly thing for people to complain about wheres there's a lot worse things going on in the world to complain about.
It's not that I didn't believe you, but the idea of it in itself is just so ridiculous.
If that bag is so loud that certain people lose their hearing how in the world do they manage to get through the day with other loud noises? Dogs barking, traffic, construction, kids, jets flying overhead, peoples music booming in their cars, and so on! Guess they better live in a bubble.
I am not a Sun Chip eater, or any chip eater really....so it's not that I'm defending them but it just seems like a silly thing for people to complain about wheres there's a lot worse things going on in the world to complain about.
I agree, that is why it wasn't my main point, it was simply to demonstrate how loud the bag is. While there are many things in the world we encounter every day which are equally loud, the point was mainly that this is simply a chip bag, and for the same reason it sounds silly to see the bag as a source for hearing loss, it is also rather silly that a "chip bag" obtains this level of noise in the first place. This is not something to reasonably expect to be so loud and while car noises, dogs barking, etc... are encountered every day, most of these loud noises are not something we encounter and live with in the quiet of our own home.
There are many things out there that surely are more important than a complaint concerning a "chip bag", but the fact remains that this company depends on its customers continuing to buy their product and it is not unreasonable that a customer would discontinue using a product if they are required to endure an annoyance of the product, regardless of how small the matter is.
My position on the issue is that some of these product changes to a more "green" appeal often come with compromises of that of the customer. There were some green hard drives released a while back to which the drives were marketed as an "improvement" over their predecessors, they however were nothing of the kind. They were simply stripped down under powered models which provided less performance than those they supposedly "upgraded" from.
While using less power is a key component in many things, doing so at a loss of performance is simply unacceptable depending on need. I have no problem with people who choose to compromise those qualities for the sake of energy consumption or being "cleaner", but many can not afford such a choice without greatly adjusting their need and ultimately compromising with less.
In our free market environment, it is providing such that is a requirement for the success of the business. At the end of the day, it is not what a person thinks specifically about a product, it is whether they are willing to spend money on it. It is for this reason to which the Sun Chip company adjusted. That is, while they may desire a more cleaner product, that desire is irrelevant if nobody is buying it.
Personally I think the green movement is too fad based at the moment and because it is such, people are supporting products that really are a waste of money. If the fad did not exist and there were a legitimate concern and demand by the public, then these companies would focus on providing improvements to their product without such compromises because they know the customers will not accept anything less. Only then will we actually improve and move forward rather than simply pawning off inferior products to market off impulse movements.
When I went grocery shopping this morning, I picked up a bag of Sun Chips to see how loud it was.
While it was louder that the other bags....it wasn't anything to get worked up over. That's what bowl are for.
The only thing I've found unfortunate about environmentally friendly products is that they usually cost more. It's hard for people to buy that stuff when they don't have a lot of money to spend. The companies should try to bring the costs down if they can.
Rather than giving up their eco-bag and going back to the old plastic one, perhaps simply reformulating the eco-bag to be less noisy would be a less drastic step? Just because you don't succeed the first time doesn't mean you should just give up.
When I went grocery shopping this morning, I picked up a bag of Sun Chips to see how loud it was.
While it was louder that the other bags....it wasn't anything to get worked up over. That's what bowl are for.
It isn't the end of the world, I know, but notice who has to compromise here? As a customer, I am not going to pay 3-4 bucks (which I think is stupidly overpriced in the first place and a reason I don't buy them) for a bag of chips to which I must ditch the bag because it is loud. The whole point is the business attending to the needs of the consumer, not the other way around. As a poster above this mentioned, why can't they simply work to come up with a bag that achieves both? If it is so important, surely it is worth the effort of the business to achieve such?
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Originally Posted by phoenixscorpiogirl
The only thing I've found unfortunate about environmentally friendly products is that they usually cost more. It's hard for people to buy that stuff when they don't have a lot of money to spend. The companies should try to bring the costs down if they can.
Some may be due to the process, but a lot of it is due to the fact that it is "hip" and "trendy" to be green and so people will pay more outside of simply assessing value based on the product itself.
If they want me to get on the "green" bandwagon, then they need to work hard at providing a product that is equal or better than what it replaces (across the board) and cost the same or cheaper. If they can't do that, I shop based on the quality and cost aspects. I won't throw away money to get less.
Rather than giving up their eco-bag and going back to the old plastic one, perhaps simply reformulating the eco-bag to be less noisy would be a less drastic step? Just because you don't succeed the first time doesn't mean you should just give up.
In an interview on NPR yesterday they said they are leaving the bags that the plain sun chips come in alone, and changing the other flavors' bags back to regular ones. They plan to work to develop a less-noisy eco-bag, and use the plain chips as a platform for testing. When they find something that works both ways they'll expand them to their whole line.
Well, like Pringles, they have chips that are not too pricey, and you can recycle the canister.
But a small bag of sun chips was almost $4.00, and when I say small I mean its like a regular bag but is less than what you get from other chips -such as Ruffles, which is cheaper too.
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