Consider that the "water" is present in all soaps. Also, you can wash your hands with less soap because you only need one or two pumps which is a pretty small amount of liquid.Originally posted by: funboy42
How about soap that foams right away while being dispensed. All it is, is watered down version of their product, but foams when it comes out, and people go "OH joy, I dont have to move my hands as much to make it foam, its already prefoamed into my hands", not paying attention to the ingredients that water is first thing on the label, and to make it even works, the bottles are even smaller, and more money, then if you just bought a normal bottle product and watered it down yourself into 4 big bottles of the stuff
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If the cost of a product goes up and the price is unable to be increased to the consumer; then the company must reduce the size ofthe product to keep the prices in line.
Tropicana is a premium orange juice, if you don't like it buy something cheaper.
I find it odd that people would complain about a premium product, sorta like complaining that your designer jeans are too expensive.
I find it odd that people would complain about a premium product, sorta like complaining that your designer jeans are too expensive.
I was gonna say the same thing, but since you already did, I'll just add detail. Unit price has been a requirement on store shelves in Michigan for over 30 years. Prior to that, grocers had to price sticker every product, by law. When grocers asked to put price labels on shelves instead for some products, the law was changed, allowing them to do so, but requiring that unit prices be shown on those labels.
Stick with Simply Orange. Tropicana's garbage anyway. :laugh:
There was a report recently where they took 20 different items at the supermarket and found all 20 of them had reduced their size. Everything from bars of soap to various food products.
There was a report recently where they took 20 different items at the supermarket and found all 20 of them had reduced their size. Everything from bars of soap to various food products.
Jeff7
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Exactly. It's marketing.
It's all about deception.
Two nice examples of "creative" packaging:
Yoplait yogurt. A lot of the bottom of the cup is just empty packaging.
Andes Mints. Most of the package is empty, folded paperboard.
It's how you sell a shitty product. It's not "lower quality for cheap," it's a "good value."
That's tiny print, and the concept of "unit price" is probably beyond the math skills of a lot of the public.
Maybe the market should start looking at producing more dehydrated products. A lot of the weight of many foods is due to water. Water is piped to your house for a very low price compared to buying it by truck, unless you live in the middle of Death Valley. And in that case, you might be better off getting some sort of condenser to get your water.
Yeah, maybe the texture will be different. But the price might make all the difference. If the dehydrated, "just add water" product is 30% the price of the regular one, then that might sway more people to buy it.
I suppose the problem then would be, as it always is, energy requirements to quickly dehydrate food.
Damn nuclear fusion and 98% efficient solar panels are several decades too late.
Good thing high oil prices would never be a problem.
Exactly.
Deception is a cornerstone of good marketing.
Translation: the company will try to distract you with flashy new "spouts" in hopes that you don't notice the same price for a smaller amount.
I'm not arguing with you.
daniel1113
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Originally posted by: Jeff7Exactly.
Deception is a cornerstone of good marketing.
I realize that. But it still pisses me off.
I have a bottle of the regular Soft Soap, and water is the first ingredient listed.
Dawn apparently used to list inactive ingredients; water was first in the list. The bottles I have (both regular Dawn and the magic foaming stuff) don't list any ingredients.
So how much does the new packaging cost Tropicana as compared to the old packaging?
Anubis
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I'm bothered by the new tops on coca-cola 20 oz bottles.
They changed the cap, so it doesn't always sit as well on the top when you're screwing it on...
They changed the cap, so it doesn't always sit as well on the top when you're screwing it on...
It wouldn't be much - if any at all. The containers themselves are considerably heavier so you'd have more fuel cost to ship them. Factories that make glass containers use massive furnaces that are fired with natural gas, so you'd have that cost as well.
I'd wager the only "fuel" savings would be in the initial raw material cost - glass comes from sand where plastic comes from oil.
I read that's actually a new cap that is a better barrier to CO2 - so the coke stays carbonated longer on the shelf.
If you want damn good juice, try Tropicana's 'Pur' line... Valencia is awesome.. If you like pulp, Valencia with pulp is like pulp soup.. eat it with a spoon. Raspberry Acai looks gross... but it's the best flavor ever.
/I did some of the programming for the pasteurizer for Tropicana's Pur line...
/I did some of the programming for the pasteurizer for Tropicana's Pur line...
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