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Perhaps they shrunk the size of the product to match? I know Hershey resized their chocolate bars to keep the price paid per bar constant for a while.
by stonemetal 14y ago
Perhaps they shrunk the size of the product to match? I know Hershey resized their chocolate bars to keep the price paid per bar constant for a while.
- mhaymo 14y agoThis was covered by the story. They didn't do that. In fact, they made efforts to discourage individual shops from doing it.
- sageikosa 14y agoHence why the 4-lb. bag of sugar seems to have become the norm around where I live, and what used to be a pound of coffee in a can is now around 11 oz.
- philwelch 14y agoAnd a pint of Haagen-Dazs ice cream is slightly less than a pint.
- rmc 14y agoMaybe they are using metric units like 500ml? A (UK Imperial) pint is 568ml. I don't know what a US Customary pint is. (Fun fact: UK and US customary/imperial units aren't the same! Every country used to have it's own system. That's why the metric system was invented)
- wilfra 14y agoInteresting. I always assumed the cost of the actual product for things like this was next-to-nothing, with marketing/profit/administration/distribution making up the vast majority - thus making portion sizes basically irrelevant.
- julianz 14y agoThis was covered in the podcast, if you'd listened to it. They didn't.
- trhtrsh 14y agoAnd the appearance of "59oz" half-gallons of orange juice. And the disappearance of "20% more free!" in your bag of chips, after 10 years of that "temporary" bonus.