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Non Gaming Discussions => Off-Topic => Topic started by: CHIZZY on March 07, 2003, 06:37:02 AM

Title: the shrinking product...
Post by: CHIZZY on March 07, 2003, 06:37:02 AM

Has anyone else noticed a rash of products that are shrinking in size, AND increasing in price? I mean, a bottle or can of beer is 11.5 OZ, instead of 12 like it used to be, and I bought a package of tic-tacs and they were all half-full.....

\'sup wit dat? I feel cheated! (especially about the beer...)

Title: the shrinking product...
Post by: Darth Joyda on March 07, 2003, 06:47:29 AM

Gone are the golden days of old.

Title: the shrinking product...
Post by: videoholic on March 07, 2003, 07:05:34 AM

Cookies are the biggest culprit of this.   Those packages just get smaller and smaller and smaller.

Title: the shrinking product...
Post by: MPTheory on March 07, 2003, 07:56:13 AM

yeah, and if you buy a bag of chips, they have more air in them then anything else.  They\'re cheating on the Tic Tacs now too??? Whats this world coming to?

Title: the shrinking product...
Post by: Kurt Angle on March 07, 2003, 01:05:10 PM

They reduce the quantity but keep the price the same, they do that a lot so they can say "Still only 25p" or whatever.

Title: the shrinking product...
Post by: project86 on March 07, 2003, 02:17:12 PM

Quantity is not the only place I have seen these cuts. What about the quality of the products. That too is begining to lack a bit.

Title: the shrinking product...
Post by: §ôµÏG®ïñD on March 07, 2003, 05:36:26 PM

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Originally posted by MPTheory
yeah, and if you buy a bag of chips, they have more air in them then anything else.  They\'re cheating on the Tic Tacs now too??? Whats this world coming to?

You pay for the weight of the chips. Not the bag size, all the air is for packaging.  

However they do rip you off, you pay top dollar for sh#t all these days. Once any company gets large enough, they always reduce product size, quailty or both and make people pay more.

Title: the shrinking product...
Post by: videoholic on March 07, 2003, 07:45:23 PM

The air in the bags I think is to protect the chips from getting crumpled.

Title: the shrinking product...
Post by: (e) on March 07, 2003, 07:46:12 PM

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Cookies are the biggest culprit of this. Those packages just get smaller and smaller and smaller.

Maybe you just are getting fatter and fatter?
That goes for all of you. :laughing:

I havent noticed anything. You can get a 20oz. here for 98cents. :D

Title: the shrinking product...
Post by: §ôµÏG®ïñD on March 07, 2003, 09:32:35 PM

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Originally posted by videoholic
The air in the bags I think is to protect the chips from getting crumpled.

yep, that\'s what i meant. :)

Title: the shrinking product...
Post by: project86 on March 08, 2003, 04:07:43 AM

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Originally posted by Spudz


Maybe you just are getting fatter and fatter?
That goes for all of you. :laughing:

I havent noticed anything. You can get a 20oz. here for 98cents. :D

I don\'t think you even old enough to know what your talking about!:p

When I was younger the cookies were bigger and the prices were smaller. There was less air in the chip bags and the Slurpy was as big as my head! Oh the good old days...:)