"Doug Kanter" wrote in message


Evil? What's the alternative? Slowly go out of business??? And, what's so
evil about a company like Breyers shrinking their package a bit, when
there's a world full of rocky road/marshmallow addicts who are happy to
pay twice as much (unit price) for those little Ben & Jerry's containers?

So you are saying that since others are being deceptive it is OK for all to
be deceptive?

You are saying since people are willing to pay a lot of money per ounce for
B & J is is OK for Breyers to go to a smaller container? It has been a half
gallon for 50+ years that I know of and all of a sudden we find that 1.75
quarts is a better size? For who? Certainly not the every day consumer that
may not have even notices for a few months

The "owner of the month" of Breyers is whoring the name and reducing quality
also. Most of the new proudcts have all sorts of unneeded crap in them that
they never needed. Guar gum is cheaper than cream so they came out with a
new vanilla. Now it is a crappy as the competition.

Breyers used to be a very good independent in the Philadelphia area but then
they were sold to Sealtest, then Kraft, Good Humor, now Unilever. They
also had better flavors years ago, like raspberry ice and bananna.



Your "thinner tube walls" analogy is a bit off, by the way. You reduced
the quality. Not the same as a food or paint company reducing the amount
per package.

My point was less product for the same or more money. It was not so much
the quality but the lesser value that did them in.