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The Ultimate Outrage: Product Shrinkage - Toilet Paper

Squisher

Squisher

Lifer
WTF

Hasn't toilet paper been that size for like 100 years? I know my ass has gotten mighty used to the 4 5/8" width for the 52 years I have been alive. Now, Northern bathroom tissue has decided that their toilet paper is to be 4 1/16".

I want my 9/16" of paper back. Waaaaaaa
 
Originally posted by: Squisher
WTF

Hasn't toilet paper been that size for like 100 years? I know my ass has gotten mighty used to the 4 5/8" width for the 52 years I have been alive. Now, Northern bathroom tissue has decided that their toilet paper is to be 4 1/16".

I want my 9/16" of paper back. Waaaaaaa
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Working in retail this is something I've seen across the board and I believe a response to the recession. What to do when sales are declining? Why cut costs by shrinking your product and charging the same price. I've seen it happen with all the chips we sell in our store and numerous other products. Less product same price.
 
Originally posted by: Locut0s
Originally posted by: Squisher
WTF

Hasn't toilet paper been that size for like 100 years? I know my ass has gotten mighty used to the 4 5/8" width for the 52 years I have been alive. Now, Northern bathroom tissue has decided that their toilet paper is to be 4 1/16".

I want my 9/16" of paper back. Waaaaaaa
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Working in retail this is something I've seen across the board and I believe a response to the recession. What to do when sales are declining? Why cut costs by shrinking your product and charging the same price. I've seen it happen with all the chips we sell in our store and numerous other products. Less product same price.
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But, but, but, Frito Lay is running radio ads saying they've stuck 20% chips in their bags!?!?
 
the number of items that have reduced size to sell at the same price is getting absurd. At some point the retards either gonna just increase the price or we'll be buying nothing but packaging.
 
For like 50 years Hershey Bars were nickle. And the kept adjusting the size of the bar according to price of chocolate. Before they finally raised the price of the bar, I think you could literally see thru a Hersheys bar it was so thin.
 
Originally posted by: Locut0s
and I believe a response to the recession.
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It's been going on way longer than this recession, it's a typical reaction to rising prices for whatever raw material the product is made from.

Take coffee, for instance. Its wholesale price has risen pretty consistently over the years. So, to keep the retail price increases "tolerable" for the consumer, the "1 lb." container of coffee, which used to be the standard size, is now 10 oz. after many incremental package size shrinks.

It's been happening for years and will continue to happen....and most consumers don't even notice it, unfortunately.


 
Laugh if you will, but when we are all wiping our asses with toilet paper that comes in scotch tape dispensers it'll be time for all of us to unite and storm the corporate idiocy that leaves us with smelly fingers.

 
It's actually quite appropriate. Due to the recession I have had to cut the size of my turds by 20 percent.
 
Originally posted by: Locut0s
Originally posted by: Squisher
WTF

Hasn't toilet paper been that size for like 100 years? I know my ass has gotten mighty used to the 4 5/8" width for the 52 years I have been alive. Now, Northern bathroom tissue has decided that their toilet paper is to be 4 1/16".

I want my 9/16" of paper back. Waaaaaaa
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Working in retail this is something I've seen across the board and I believe a response to the recession. What to do when sales are declining? Why cut costs by shrinking your product and charging the same price. I've seen it happen with all the chips we sell in our store and numerous other products. Less product same price.
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I remember seeing a consumer reports article on TP - it mentioned how they were making shorter rolls or slightly shrinking the width of rolls to save a ton on paper costs and not have to raise prices.

Look at how ice cream containers went from 1/2 gallon to 48 oz.
 
Originally posted by: Squisher
Laugh if you will, but when we are all wiping our asses with toilet paper that comes in scotch tape dispensers it'll be time for all of us to unite and storm the corporate idiocy that leaves us with smelly fingers.
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But, but, someone wearing a string bikini shouldn't need any more...

Some of the restrooms in big box stores have been stocked with what seems to be 3 1/2 - 4" wide tp for years. More gets used but they keep doing it. I wonder if they had focus groups testing this...
 
Once my wife and sister in law were talking. My SIL was concerned because her chest wasn't as big as she'd like it to be. My wife told her she ought to just rub it with toilet paper. SIL thought that was kind of odd and asked wifey how she came to that conclusion. Wife explained, well, it's done a good job on making SIL's ass bigger, so it goes to reason....
Wonder if they'll ever talk to each other again.
 
Originally posted by: Cyco
Once my wife and sister in law were talking. My SIL was concerned because her chest wasn't as big as she'd like it to be. My wife told her she ought to just rub it with toilet paper. SIL thought that was kind of odd and asked wifey how she came to that conclusion. Wife explained, well, it's done a good job on making SIL's ass bigger, so it goes to reason....
Wonder if they'll ever talk to each other again.
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Your wife's a keeper 😉
 
Originally posted by: Cyco
Once my wife and sister in law were talking. My SIL was concerned because her chest wasn't as big as she'd like it to be. My wife told her she ought to just rub it with toilet paper. SIL thought that was kind of odd and asked wifey how she came to that conclusion. Wife explained, well, it's done a good job on making SIL's ass bigger, so it goes to reason....
Wonder if they'll ever talk to each other again.
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LMAO :laugh:
 
Originally posted by: Bignate603
We just ran across this with tuna fish cans. Some are smaller than others...
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Same with bars of dial soap, they changed the shape so that they are wider/skinnier in hopes of disguising the fact that the bars actually contain less soap than they used to.
 
Don't complain, in some parts of Europe, the toilet paper is dispensed sheet by sheet and each each is roughly the size of 2 credit cards.
 
So when the recession is over products will go back to their original size, right? Oh, that's right, the executives of those companies will leave things as is and use the higher profits for luxurious vacations and perks. Then, when times get tough again, the company won't have the extra resources to better weather an economic downturn and be forced to reduce product sizing/increase prices and lay off employees.
 
Originally posted by: child of wonder
So when the recession is over products will go back to their original size, right? Oh, that's right, the executives of those companies will leave things as is and use the higher profits for luxurious vacations and perks. Then, when times get tough again, the company won't have the extra resources to better weather an economic downturn and be forced to reduce product sizing/increase prices and lay off employees.
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These products have been shrinking in size for the last 5-6 years.
 
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