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Product Shrinkage again: same product more shrinkage

Squisher

Squisher

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You might remember my thread from 1 1/2 years ago detailing the shrinkage of Northern toilet paper.

http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?t=283333

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Well they've done it again. Now, they've taken a product that I hold near and dear to me and decided to increase the size of cardboard tube by a 1/4".

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Where will these injustices end?
 
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pick a new brand? this is why I stopped getting girl scout cookies. Same thing. Smaller and less cookies with an ever increasing price.
 
HumblePie said:
pick a new brand? this is why I stopped getting girl scout cookies. Same thing. Smaller and less cookies with an ever increasing price.
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If you're buying Girl Scout cookies for the price or because they're a "deal", you're doing it wrong.
 
HumblePie said:
pick a new brand? this is why I stopped getting girl scout cookies. Same thing. Smaller and less cookies with an ever increasing price.
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It's as if costs are inflating.

Anyway, shop with an eye for $/unit. Then you'll start buying all toilet paper at Costco.
 
ElFenix said:
did the sq. ft. of the roll change?
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I don't have the old packaging to look at. I had to fish the old cardbord tube out of the garbage after staring at the new one and thinking, that looks bigger. But, if I was a guessing man I'd say so.

HumblePie said:
pick a new brand? this is why I stopped getting girl scout cookies. Same thing. Smaller and less cookies with an ever increasing price.
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Product loyalty. I can't say that there are a lot of products I'm loyal to, but using something else just wouldn't be the same.
 
xanis said:
If you're buying Girl Scout cookies for the price or because they're a "deal", you're doing it wrong.
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Nope, I just refuse to support a company profiteering in the name of charity and making a worse product every year because of it. The girl scouts buy those boxes basically and resell them for a few pennies on top. Those $3 thin mints you picked up, about $2.50 goes to the company that makes them. Then the $.50 left for the girl scouts gets chopped up in different places with only a little bit going to the troop that sold the item.

Personally, I rather see girl scouts do something as a troop themselves for a fund raiser where the proceeds go directly to the troop. I used to do this in boy scouts back in the day.

Anyhow, sorry to derail the thread. Still the point being is that there is no such thing as brand loyalty when brands aren't loyal to their customers. Either suck it up or find something else. If everyone stopped buying their product after a major change, the product would return to its original design.
 
I noticed a couple months ago that Tropicana orange juice cartons now only contain 59 oz of juice. They're still in the same carton as before; exactly the same size as Florida's Natural and Minute Maid, but slightly less full. You have to read the label and see that it says 59 oz instead of 64 oz.
 
I find it fascinating that someone takes the time to measure their rolls before wiping their ass.
 
Coffee used to be sold by the pound...nowadays, that "one pound" container contains between 11 and 12 oz...yet the price continues to rise. <shrug>
 
BoomerD said:
Coffee used to be sold by the pound...nowadays, that "one pound" container contains between 11 and 12 oz...yet the price continues to rise. <shrug>
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At least a price increase is straight forward, product shrinkage is a used car salesman tactic.

Always taking in the ass. 😱
 
I made a new discovery at the grocery store yesterday. I was buying the store brand of powdered drink mix, you know the ones that come in a little cup sealed into a tube?

Upon closer examination, I noticed some tubes weren't full and some were. Now, they both had the exact same label being sold for the exact same price with one tiny difference. One container had 'makes 10 quarts' stamped on the side while the other had 'makes 12 quarts' stamped on the side.
 
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