On Feb 28, 12:21*pm, George wrote:
JoeSpareBedroom wrote:
"franz fripplfrappl" wrote in message
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On Wed, 27 Feb 2008 14:49:39 -0800, greg2468 wrote:

I recently went to our favorite big box store. *While wandering around
the paint department, I noticed that most brands sold there are no
longer full gallons. *They were one pint less than a gallon. *Yet,
spread rate magically remains the same! *Of course the price remains the
same! *I live in the southeast United State and am curious to know if
this has happened in other areas. *(Quarts are now 28 ounces).
Take a walk down the aisles in a grocery store sometime. *A pound of
coffee is about 9 ounces. *5# of sugar is 4#. *Prices are more or less
the same.

It's a way to trick consumers into thinking the economy is hunky-dory and
that inflation is in check. *We're so used to buying containers that we
forget to read what's actually in them. *By downsizing containers and
quantities, we are actually paying a higher percentage for goods than we
were 5 or 10 years ago.

Another bull**** answer from someone who thinks products reach the stores by
growing wings and flying there for free.

I doubt the poster thinks that at all and they gave an excellent
analogy. If he is painting a room and his cost goes up does he doesn't
paint 80% of the surfaces and try to spin it somehow that it is really a
great job. He would charge more to do the expected job.

I expect the same with products I buy. If the cost to produce goes up
then charge more. Don't shrink the size and print weasel words on the
package such as "new package but contents will perform as the old
package etc..."

I for one am tired of big box and megacorps putting so much effort into
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The problem occurs as soon as one - just one - major company downsizes
it's package and keeps the price the same. Next, right or wrong,
every other company sees that their product is priced higher, and does
the same thing - thinking that all shoppers are ignorant enough to
simply grab the product with the lowest price without even looking at
the unit pricing. (maybe they are...)

Bottom line - If you shop by unit pricing, you don't care if the
container is 16, 13.5 or 9 oz. If they are all $1.22 an oz, then the
only question is "How much do I need?" I could care less, from a price
perspective, if the bag of coffee I bought yesterday was 16 oz and
today it's 14.5. If it was $10 yesterday and it's $10 today, they
raised the price and my 16 oz bag would have cost more - which I would
have noticed because the unit price went up. I laugh in the face of
the corporate marketing muckety-mucks who think they "fooled" me into
thinking they didn't raise the price.