In article , "Edwin Pawlowski" wrote:

"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?

Excuse me, where is the deception in selling a 1.75-quart container that is
clearly labelled "1.75 quarts"?

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?

He's saying that companies will charge what the market will bear. To do
anything else is, from a business standpoint, foolish.

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

Better for the manufacturer, obviously. Like I said in another post: greed.
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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.

As you described it, it pretty clearly *was* the lower quality that did them
in.

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Regards,
Doug Miller (alphageek at milmac dot com)

It's time to throw all their damned tea in the harbor again.