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On store shelves, stealthy shrinking of containers keeps prices from rising
- gamble 18y agoThe other tactic is emphasizing container sizes that haven't been high-volume products in the past. For example, vending machines that sell canned drinks are an increasingly rare species - most of the new models are designed to sell larger plastic bottles, presumably since consumers have less specific ideas of what they should cost. Chocolate bars are now frequently sold in small 100-gram packages and larger double-bar packages.
- ggruschow 18y agocool. maybe people will overeat less.
- gills 18y agoWhat ever happened to 'make something people want?' I was in the ice cream aisle a couple days back and it was downright depressing. [edit: quantity is very important to me when it comes to ice cream :)]
- jorgeortiz85 18y agoI wonder if official calculations of inflation take this into account...
- silentbicycle 18y agoThe Consumerist has a lot of articles about this, grouped under the title "Grocery Shrink Ray" (http://consumerist.com/search/grocery%20shrink%20ray/ http://consumerist.com/search/grocery%20shrink%20ray/).