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Actually, they cite that behavior _exactly_: > Still, in the end, Dworsky says that the sneakiness, and the sense that companies have a low opinion of their cu

Actually, they cite that behavior _exactly_: > Still, in the end, Dworsky says that the sneakiness, and the sense that companies have a low opinion of their customers' intelligence, is what gets to him most. Over his years as a professional observer of grocery shelves, he has noticed an interesting pattern: it is common for a downsized product to come full circle. First a product drops from 16oz to 14.5oz. Then, as the years pass, maybe it goes down to 11oz. Perhaps it even drops to 8oz. Then, a 16oz size appears again. But this time, it's the super or mega size. And the cost is much, much higher than that of the original.

perl4ever 6y ago
It's obviously not literally true, though. That's what I find irritating, the exaggeration and the tone, and I think it confirms that my prejudice was exactly right. The cycle does not take a huge amount of time, and if it was extreme as people pretend, then we would know it because of inflation rates, and we would all be buying super-ultra-mega sizes of everything. And it's not a low opinion of peoples' intelligence, it's a recognition that people are sensitive to price increases for unchanged products. It's directly dictated by what people feel is fair. I wish we could have articles that don't have the tone of feeding a persecution complex.