Incredible Shrinking Yogurt Containers
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the problem is that when they shrink the size, they aren't shrinking the price. it's essentially food inflation
BOW BEFORE YOUR CHRIST.
I discovered this shit a few days ago, I am HOOKED NOW.
All flavors are fucking god sauce. SO GOOD IT'S NOT EVEN FUNNY AND ALL DAT PROTEIN MAN! IT'S LIKE CHEATING!!!
Yeah but how much sugar's in there...?
Did they think we wouldn't notice? Until about 2003 yogurt came in 8 oz. containers, since then it's been 6 oz.
I went to Trader Joe's this weekend and this is their new yogurt container:
5.3 ounces, not even a regular size. Where does it end? Just raises prices by a reasonable amount each year. It's not just yogurt either, this is happening to cereal, chips and other food items sold by volume.
Trader Joe's is owned by a german company. 150 grams is standard yoghurt packaging size here.
Slayer-33
Liverpool-2
14g per serving / 28% dv
That's true, but TJ's outsources many of their products to local (U.S.) manufacturers. It's not so much the size, as the trend toward shrinking sizes. Here's the same yogurt a few years ago:
Maybe there's a secret dairy crisis in the US of A, like the one Norway is facing right now?
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/12/09/norway-butter-shortage-_n_1139350.html
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/12/09/norway-butter-shortage-_n_1139350.html
Auron_Kale
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BOW BEFORE YOUR CHRIST.
I discovered this shit a few days ago, I am HOOKED NOW.
All flavors are fucking god sauce. SO GOOD IT'S NOT EVEN FUNNY AND ALL DAT PROTEIN MAN! IT'S LIKE CHEATING!!!
I prefer this. Chobani has a weird aftertaste to me.
The Technomancer
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Dude they pull this shit everywhere. Breakfast cereal is the worst.
Bertram Cooper will hook US-GAF up with some dairy if the need arises, I am sure.
way more
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I only buy food that has 2 ingredients at most.
BobTheFork
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You seel this all over. Companies are fighting reduced profit and they can either charge more or try to give less and slide it past you.
What I keept seeing as well is suddenly the same price something has been forever is now the sale price. BS!
What I keept seeing as well is suddenly the same price something has been forever is now the sale price. BS!
to give an idea
when i started my job... 12 pks of coke/pepsi were basically regularly 2 for $6 or $3.50 each - a hot sale price was $2.49 or 2/$4
now... they are regularly 2/$10 or $5.50 each... and 2 for $6 is a hot price
I'm not even 30 yet and I already feel like a senior "coke was this much back in my day"
The one question though is when will it stop? I notice it on diaper packages the most because of poor sell through and I sometimes have up to 3 packages in stock with differing quantities... Will it eventually get down to selling a single piece of the product? One diaper for $20? They've shrunk their diaper packs down so much that the "jumbo" size isn't actually jumbo anymore, it's very small... And mega / super mega have essentially replaced it for extravagantly higher prices
sixteen-bit
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Ice Cream does this too
jamesinclair
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Again, this seems to be another case of companies standardizing global packaging to milliliters.
Thats 500ml.
20oz is 591ml, and the closest "nice" round numbers are 500 and 750. And obviously 500 is closer and happens to save money, so.....
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