"JoeSpareBedroom" wrote in message
The OP describes it as an attempt to fool people. That's bull****. What
kind of work do you do? Do you expect to get salary increases from time to
time?

This reminds me of a long debate in a cooking newsgroup, in which whiners
were complaining that Breyers had shrunk their 64 oz ice cream package.
This was portrayed as evil. Some of the idiots seemed to expect Breyer's
to send a post card to every household in America, informing them of the
change.


I don't begrudge a price increase when needed. The reason for the change
was profit by deception.

Breyers (and others) took a deceptive way out of raising prices. Ice cream
has been in 64 ounce containers for 60 years that I'm aware of and prices
have risen as cost have risen. It worked that way for a long time. Suddenly
the marketers found they could scam a lot of people into thinking they are
getting the same product for the same price. No matter how you look at it,
the purpose was to raise prices, not help the consumer. Egg cartons,
thankfully, still have 12 eggs in them.