kilopascal wrote:
....
> I was not surprised when nobody mentioned that this practise is done with
> the governments blessing. When a product goes from 396 g to 325 g, a
> reduction of 18 % with no change in price, that is equivalent to holding the
> contents the same and raising the price 18 %.
Actually, to be picky about this, the price rise would be more than 18
% in your example. Let's say you used to pay $3.96 for 396 g (1 cent per
gram). Now you are paying $3.96 for 325 g (1.21846 cents per gram).
That's a price rise of nearly 22 %.
....
> Another interesting titbit: a year or so ago, the BWMA got all excited and
> issued a Metrickery Award to a British candy company for doing the same
> thing. If I remember correctly, they reduced something from 454 g (1 lb) to
> 400 g. But, this issue now being noticed in the US, is being done in ounces
> and pounds....
This has been going on ever since the first two people bartered,
probably. I remember this being a news item at least once a decade. I
lost my innocent view of the world in the late fifties when the Three
Muskateers bar shrank but the price and package dimensions remained the
same.
Jim
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