Tide detergent 200oz: 33% more*

[JEDI]

*than competitor's 150 oz :|

the "33% More" was prominently displayed on the front of the bottle.

then in alot smaller font was "than competitor's 150oz."

no shit sherlock. your also paying more because it's 33% bigger.

i didnt buy Tide out of priciple.


Is the avg person doing the laundry w/Tide this stupid?!

 

[MagnusTheBrewer]

"Now, with blue crystals"

 

[rudeguy]

Originally posted by: JEDI
*than competitor's 150 oz :|

the "33% More" was prominently displayed on the front of the bottle.

then in alot smaller font was "than competitor's 150oz."

no shit sherlock. your also paying more because it's 33% bigger.

i didnt buy Tide out out of priciple.

Is the avg person doing the laundry this stupid?!

Well...it usually is the women who do the laundry.


:shocked:

 

[sdifox]

I think my favorite slogan is still "Now with new packaging" WTF...

 

[PlasmaBomb]

2l bottle of coke... now larger than a 1.5l :Q

 

[mugs]

Get Kirkland detergent, it's probably the same stuff.

 

[ElFenix]

i like how they rate detergent by number of loads.

i then like how the cap is 3x larger than the recommended amount, so that anyone who doesn't look for line number 2 uses all that detergent in half or less the number of loads.

 

[Modelworks]

My favorite is the 2 for $1.28 sales when the original price was 64 cent each.
My dad was in the grocery business all his life, you wouldn't believe the things they do that actually make people buy more.

 

[KLin]

I heard Scotts is going to put a new slogan on their lawn fertilizer...

"It's the same old shit!"

 

[JS80]

Originally posted by: JEDI
*than competitor's 150 oz :|

the "33% More" was prominently displayed on the front of the bottle.

then in alot smaller font was "than competitor's 150oz."

no shit sherlock. your also paying more because it's 33% bigger.

i didnt buy Tide out out of priciple.

Is the avg person doing the laundry this stupid?!

I think the avg person doesn't read it.

Is the avg marketing team this elitist that they think avg person would jizz their pants and buy their product because it's 33% bigger?

 

[JS80]

Originally posted by: mugs
Get Kirkland detergent, it's the same stuff.

fixed

 

[hanoverphist]

Originally posted by: Modelworks
My favorite is the 2 for $1.28 sales when the original price was 64 cent each.
My dad was in the grocery business all his life, you wouldn't believe the things they do that actually make people buy more.

burger kings first few years of "combo meals" were actually more expensive than buying the parts separately. i used to tell them that every time i went to one (i knew the owner of a bunch of them in mesa) and wouldnt buy the combos until he finally changed the pricing to be an actual bargain.

 

[Modelworks]

Originally posted by: hanoverphist

Originally posted by: Modelworks
My favorite is the 2 for $1.28 sales when the original price was 64 cent each.
My dad was in the grocery business all his life, you wouldn't believe the things they do that actually make people buy more.

burger kings first few years of "combo meals" were actually more expensive than buying the parts separately. i used to tell them that every time i went to one (i knew the owner of a bunch of them in mesa) and wouldnt buy the combos until he finally changed the pricing to be an actual bargain.

I remember that.

A couple more tricks of the grocery trade:

Milk is one of the top sellers so it is located so that people have to walk through the store to purchase it. That way they will see other things they need.

Displays are placed in the way of the cart so that you have to take time to navigate around them, again so you look at more items.

Food kids like is put within their reach so they can grab it and run to mommy.

Grocery stores get paid for product placement. Want your item at the end display ? Pay for it. Want your item at eye level ? Pay for it . The grocery chains map out stores like its a charge by the foot billboard ad.

Optical Illusions are your friend. People perceive different shapes as being more or less. So if you need to sell less product for more money. Change the package shape while the contents are less.

 

[Sukhoi]

Originally posted by: ElFenix
i like how they rate detergent by number of loads.

i then like how the cap is 3x larger than the recommended amount, so that anyone who doesn't look for line number 2 uses all that detergent in half or less the number of loads.

:laugh: My gf was doing that. She got the triple concentrated All, and was filling the cap to the top. I pointed out to her that she was only supposed to fill it about 1/3 full and she got all pouty on me.

 

[SagaLore]

Yea I like how all these labels have "Special, 33% free" - but how is that 33% free if the label ALWAYS has that? You're still getting charged for it.

 

[JS80]

Originally posted by: Modelworks

Originally posted by: hanoverphist

Originally posted by: Modelworks
My favorite is the 2 for $1.28 sales when the original price was 64 cent each.
My dad was in the grocery business all his life, you wouldn't believe the things they do that actually make people buy more.

burger kings first few years of "combo meals" were actually more expensive than buying the parts separately. i used to tell them that every time i went to one (i knew the owner of a bunch of them in mesa) and wouldnt buy the combos until he finally changed the pricing to be an actual bargain.

I remember that.

A couple more tricks of the grocery trade:

Milk is one of the top sellers so it is located so that people have to walk through the store to purchase it. That way they will see other things they need.

Displays are placed in the way of the cart so that you have to take time to navigate around them, again so you look at more items.

Food kids like is put within their reach so they can grab it and run to mommy.

Grocery stores get paid for product placement. Want your item at the end display ? Pay for it. Want your item at eye level ? Pay for it . The grocery chains map out stores like its a charge by the foot billboard ad.

Optical Illusions are your friend. People perceive different shapes as being more or less. So if you need to sell less product for more money. Change the package shape while the contents are less.

Can't blame supermarkets for maximizing revenue...their profit margins are like 1-3%

 

[Ktulu]

Originally posted by: Modelworks
My favorite is the 2 for $1.28 sales when the original price was 64 cent each.
My dad was in the grocery business all his life, you wouldn't believe the things they do that actually make people buy more.

You think that's bad. We were at Target not very long ago to get some shampoo and noticed they had a temporary price cut on the stuff my wife uses. When we lifted the temporary price cut paper and saw the original price we almost died laughing because it was the same damn price! Shameless.

 

[waggy]

Originally posted by: ElFenix
i like how they rate detergent by number of loads.

i then like how the cap is 3x larger than the recommended amount, so that anyone who doesn't look for line number 2 uses all that detergent in half or less the number of loads.

I hate that.

the cup needed for my detergent is fricken huge. but there is a line (have to really look to even see it) that is like 1/3 of the way up.

though if you actually read the packaging it says where the line is.


i remember like 15years or so ago. KFC changed the chicken breast. they said it was 33% larger. well yeah it is but its like 70% bone now where it used to be like 5% bone. you used to get a lot more meat on the breast.

 

[Psynaut]

Originally posted by: JEDI
*than competitor's 150 oz :|



Is the avg person doing the laundry w/Tide this stupid?!

Yes.

 

[compman25]

Originally posted by: JS80

Originally posted by: mugs
Get Kirkland detergent, it's the same stuff.

fixed

Wrong, Kirkland detergent is made by Huish. I hauled shitloads of that stuff out of Salt Lake City from the Huish plant.

 

[Eli]

Tide's prices are outrageous.

Generic crap FTW.

 

[Jeff7]

Originally posted by: SagaLore
Yea I like how all these labels have "Special, 33% free" - but how is that 33% free if the label ALWAYS has that? You're still getting charged for it.

Kind of like Kmart and their "70% off all fine jewelry" gimmick. It's always been 70% off. Off of what, I don't know.

Originally posted by: Sukhoi
:laugh: My gf was doing that. She got the triple concentrated All, and was filling the cap to the top. I pointed out to her that she was only supposed to fill it about 1/3 full and she got all pouty on me.

You read the directions.
</man card>

Was there make up sex?
Put those pouty lips to good use.......*slap!* Damn wandering mind!


Modelworks - another trick of the trade: Rearrange the stuff sometimes so people have to search around for 5 fucking hours to find something that's been in the same place forever.
Walmart loves to do this - they change the merchandise arrangements every month or two. People browse more to find what they need, and so will buy more stupid shit.

The Giant Eagle grocery store near me rearranged itself quite a bit. Fortunately, stuff there seems to remain pretty static otherwise. They replaced the video rental place with a pharmacy, and a lot of heavy refrigeration equipment was moved. I guess I can forgive them for that, since it wasn't just a "Let's rearrange the place to piss off customers!" move. But good god, they really shifted a lot of stuff around. Aisles got merged, products just all over the place compared to where they had been for several months before that.

I'm usually the sort of shopper that marketers hate: I know what I need, and that's what I get. I stopped keeping a budget of my grocery expenses, because they were almost the same every single week.

 

[thegimp03]

Originally posted by: rudeguy

Originally posted by: JEDI
*than competitor's 150 oz :|

the "33% More" was prominently displayed on the front of the bottle.

then in alot smaller font was "than competitor's 150oz."

no shit sherlock. your also paying more because it's 33% bigger.

i didnt buy Tide out out of priciple.

Is the avg person doing the laundry this stupid?!

Well...it usually is the women who do the laundry.


:shocked:

Hahaha

 

[biggestmuff]

Originally posted by: mugs
Get Kirkland detergent, it's probably the same stuff.

That's what we buy. It's now a smaller container and concentrated formula.

 

[0roo0roo]

http://consumerist.com/5033568...the-grocery-shrink-ray
http://consumerist.com/5027266...the-grocery-shrink-ray

and yea they also make the fill up lines inside the cap measuring cup confusing hoping people over fill.