On Saturday, July 1, 2017 at 1:50:09 PM UTC-4, Frank wrote:
On 7/1/2017 12:55 PM, Wayne Boatwright wrote:
On Sat 01 Jul 2017 05:45:29a, Ed Pawlowski told us...

On 7/1/2017 8:15 AM, Cindy Hamilton wrote:
On Friday, June 30, 2017 at 4:42:02 PM UTC-4, Wade Garrett wrote:
On 6/30/17 4:22 PM, Oren wrote:
On Fri, 30 Jun 2017 11:54:48 -0400, Wade Garrett
wrote:

After recently attending the retirement ceremony for my
rusted-out and falling-apart ancient propane gas barbecue
grill, I replaced it with my first charcoal grill in 22 years.
Getting ready for the Fourth you know.

But when buying my first bag of charcoal in these same 22
years, I find that my former favorite fuel- a 20 pound bag of
Kingsford Briquets- now weighs only 18.6 pounds.

Guess I shouldn't be too surprised as a five pound bag of
sugar now weighs four pounds, a pound-bag of ground coffee
contains but 11.5 ounces and most horridly, a half-gallon
bottle of Scotch now is only 1.75 liters.

Milk and gas are next, I guess......

Buy the longer burning charcoal, use less, attain higher heat
temps. It doesn't take much charcoal to cook a steak, ribs,
prime rib beef or a 7 lb. pork butt.

We don't know your grill or how you tuned it for a long -
overnight cooks or if the bag is lump charcoal.

An OZ of pot costs more than it did in the 60's :-)


It seems you've missed my point which is sellers have reduced
long-standing and familiar standard package sizes in lieu of
raising prices ;-)

Sure, why not? They want to sell stuff, but their costs have
increased, and they know that people would squawk if prices
increased. It's capitalism in action.

Cindy Hamilton


Sure, but for 200 years rhey just increased the price. Now they
try to deceive.


There's no deception. Read the label. The weight or volume of the
contents is always displayed.

Based on your current observation of diminishing sizes, apparently
you haven't been aware of much of anything in the past 22 years.

There is a certain amount of deception as I pointed out when they put 4
gallons of propane in a 5 gallon tank and tell you the tank contains 16
lbs. Not too many people know the weight of a gallon of propane.

Its somewhat deceptive too with other products like coffee in the same
size can but ground to take more space. If you don't read labels and
are familiar with weights and measures you probably miss what they are
doing.

I'm all in favor of free market capitalism but bothered that people are
ignorant of such things. Competition is better and prices go down with
an informed consumer.

The consumer should inform himself, rather than just unthinkingly tossing
the product into his shopping cart.

Cindy Hamilton