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Just opened a new pack of Charmin toilet paper. The rolls are about 1/2 inch narrower than the last pack we bought. I guess everything is shrinking like the candy bars now.
Have you tried to buy an 8-ounce cup of yogurt lately? How about a half-gallon of ice cream?
These manufacturers must think we're stupid.
And, judging from the fact that we put up with this crap, apparently they're right.
Costco actually announced their paper towels were made smaller (less sheets on the roll) during the height of the shortages, to help more people get packs. I mean they could have just sold smaller packs, but nah.
+1Have you tried to buy an 8-ounce cup of yogurt lately? How about a half-gallon of ice cream?
These manufacturers must think we're stupid.
And, judging from the fact that we put up with this crap, apparently they're right.
“The cans remained the same price, as the difference in amount of product is not significant and rarely impacts the number of cans being fed to the cat,” Roland Hooley, a company vice president, said in a statement.
Have you tried to buy an 8-ounce cup of yogurt lately? How about a half-gallon of ice cream?
Yes many of these things are clearly money grabs and most are environmentally unfriendly. One of my pet peeves are the plastic 'jars' that things like salsa and apple sauce come in. They have huge concave bottoms lessening volume and all kinds of internal ribbing which makes it impossible to empty the contents entirely and even difficult to rinse them clean for recycling.On the subject of shrinkage, when did the default for ice cream shrink from 1/2 gallon to 1.75 liter? I know it's been awhile now, and had almost forgotten about it being 1/2 gallon, once upon a time. Back then, the container was brick-shaped, where now it's rounded on the corners, and tapers towards the bottom.
I think you get what you pay for. All you folks who buy that mass market TP are missing out on the good things in life.
Artisanal Toilet paper is environmentally friendly, multi-cultural and entirely hand-made by our villagers in the hills of Umbria, our reincarnated Goddesses and our Kyrgyzstani spiders.
Or something like that.
On the subject of shrinkage, when did the default for ice cream shrink from 1/2 gallon to 1.75 liter? I know it's been awhile now, and had almost forgotten about it being 1/2 gallon, once upon a time. Back then, the container was brick-shaped, where now it's rounded on the corners, and tapers towards the bottom.