On 07/01/2017 06:16 AM, Cindy Hamilton wrote:
On Friday, June 30, 2017 at 9:49:26 PM UTC-4, rbowman wrote:
On 06/30/2017 11:04 AM, Cindy Hamilton wrote:
Funny, my 5-pound bag of sugar is still 5 pounds (4 pound bags are
also available), and a 1-pound bag of coffee is still 1 pound. I've
seen smaller bags in the grocery store, but I generally go right to the
roaster for coffee.

I don't recall seeing 5 lb bags of sugar where I shop for either the
name brands or the generics; they are all 4 lbs. I buy beans so a pound
of beans is a pound. Some 3 lb cans of ground coffee have 3 lbs. I used
to buy MJB. I have some old cans I use for cereal storage that are
marked 39 ounces. The latest offerings are 33.9. There was one brand
that advertised that although it was only 33 ounces it made as much
coffee as 48 ounces used to. Less is more. Orwell would be pleased.

Perhaps your grocery store feels it isn't worth stocking 5-pound bags
of sugar. Perhaps they discovered the uncritical customers grabbed
the 4-pound bag at a lower price and left the more expensive 5-pound
bag on the shelf.

It's the free market, man.

Ain't it great. Free market, free trade, globalism... And the sheep
bleat merrily.