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Big companies are protecting profits with subtle repackaging, putting a little less into boxes of cereal, containers of ice cream, rolls of paper towels and other products. Guess who's paying for it.
Does it seem you run out of Doritos, orange juice or mayonnaise faster than you used to?
Big companies are protecting profits with subtle repackaging, putting a little less into boxes of cereal, containers of ice cream, rolls of paper towels and other products. Guess who's paying for it.
Does it seem you run out of Doritos, orange juice or mayonnaise faster than you used to?
So? They're updating the package to reflect the new weight/volume, right? You DO look at what you're buying, right? You know that the shelf tags in the grocery stores have the price per unit on them, right?
Never mind, I get it. Corporations are evil, greedy devils that are only out to suck the money from our wallets without giving us anything in return. They don't actually provide any useful goods or services.
Never mind, I get it. Corporations are evil, greedy devils that are only out to suck the money from our wallets without giving us anything in return. They don't actually provide any useful goods or services.
No, they're amoral, greedy devils that are out to suck the money from our wallets while giving us something in return, often as little as possible.
I just wanted to revisit this thread and see how people feel about the shrinking package size at same price, which is basically increase in price but rather sneaky way of doing it. Does shrinking package size cause people to use less? buy more? change brands?
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