Do you like paying for air? (food packages)

   Recently, I noticed that a local grocery store started putting more air,
and less product, in their store brand potato chip bags.  2 months ago, the
bags had 12 ounces of potato chips - now they have 8.  A couple of years
ago, they had 14 ounces.  I remember that about 6 or 7 years ago, it was a
full 16 ounces - a pound.

  Now they are putting half the product in the bags, but they have left the
price the same - a dollar.  I would much rather that they leave the size of
the product the same, and I find it insulting that they make the bags look
the same size, and they are the same price, but you only get half what you
did a few years ago.

  The same has happened to a lesser extent with several other items - graham
crackers, for instance.  The boxes used to have a full pound.  Now it is 14
ounces, and there is empty space in the box.

  Why do they do this?  It infuriates me, and makes me feel like my
intelligence is being insulted.

 
The same  one pound box of graham crackers is available for $1 at the
dollar store, Sav-A-Lot, and Wal-Mart. You can still select a 1# bag
of potato chips. Just look for the proper sized bag and buy that
instead of a lesser weight bag. This is not brain surgery.
Better yet, why not buy 15# of potatoes for $2.99 and make your own
healthy chips?
Surely, nobody would try to insult your intelligence.

 OhioGuy wrote:

Whenever the question is "Why do they do this?" the answers are usually
money or sex. Sex doesn't apply to corporations so you're left with only
money.

They do it because it makes them money.

Shrinking product sizes have been around ever since they started to
package foods. Don't worry too much about it though. In a little bit
they'll announce a new 'Jumbo' sized package with the original 16 oz.

I'm not even going to touch the intelligence insulting. If you even
glance at most adverts you'll quickly realize that they believe the
consumer as the IQ and long term memory of a goldfish. What passes
for most comedy these days is even more insulting to your IQ.

Anthony

 On Sep 9, 8:36 pm, Anthony Matonak

".........the answers are usually money or sex......"


Or religion.

 
Or for Republicans it involves all three...at the same time...in a
bathroom stall at the airport.

TMT