I last bought a Hershey bar about a month ago. That one was as thin as a credit card. I bought another one the other day. Not only did they manage to make them somehow even thinner, but it tasted primarily like brown shortening and wax. I will not bother with Hershey bars again.
Regular dish soap, the kind we have always had, just regular standard dish soap, is now marketed as expensive “concentrated” dish soap. “Regular” dish soap will now only wash two or three plates per squeeze of soap on the sponge. All they did was water down standard dish soap, and make that the new “regular.” Clearly they think we’re stupid.
Makers of products now seem to think that they’re entitled to a maximum share of your inadequate income for just any kind of crap at all.
Have you bought a TV dinner lately? Recently I got an out-of-season craving for a turkey dinner. (I cook from scratch most nights, but everyone eats convenience food sometimes.) A turkey TV dinner used to be actual slices of roast turkey. Sure, the stuffing was nothing more than reconstituted cubes of white bread, but the gravy was good and the portion was decent. Now you get a couple tiny pieces of “turkey loaf,” which is completely unsatisfying if you crave roast turkey. There are barely any bread cubes, barely any “gravy,” and you are supposed to believe that a tablespoon of red goo is some kind of “dessert.” It is worse than hospital food, worse than airline food, worse than school cafeteria food; and the whole thing amounts to the volume of one appetizer from a “nouvelle cuisine” restaurant that you split with a dinner date. And they want six or seven dollars for it. It’s insulting.
I don’t think the labelling on paper towels makes a whole lot of mathematical sense. “6 = 12?” What does that even mean? What is the standard? Do they even sell the 1=1 to compare size and pricing? Why not make just one giant paper towel roll where 1 =12? Think of how much would be saved in cardboard tubing then!
I believe this labelling is misleading and an excuse to charge more.
Well there’s the whole 16oz.things are now 12-14oz things. And why is a bottle of aleeve so expensive and you get 16 pills, but equate brand is cheaper and has more pills?
It’s the same meds.
My cats loooovvveee their treats. But are very picky about their wet and dry foods. Why don’t manufacturers use the same flavorings?
Don’t get me started on mens socks.
And…college text books come shrink wrapped with no binding! WTF??
In the late 80’s early 90’s ( last time I had name brand clothes money) Levi’s 501’s we’re the standard.
I bought some in the last 10 years…I thought they were women’s slacks.
They were cut all wrong and made from a blue material that does NOT resemble denim in feel or structure.
I hear there is some kind of custom shop at Levi’s and you can still get real shrink to fit, non prewashed jeans like the old days…for a price.:mad:
On the average, of course, they’re probably right about that. They know what they’re doing.
I don’t think you could compare pricing with the 1=1 size anyway. It’s not at all obvious if the prices are proportional in a sensible way. I don’t carry a hand calculator with me to work it out. I tend to just buy the largest size packages I can find just so I don’t have to go out shopping for paper towels any more often than necessary. There’s some value in that too.
What are your preferred flavors in men’s socks?
THE BOTTOM LINE: When you find a product you like, buy a lifetime supply, because they’ll stop making it.
Oh, and I also meant to mention how facial creams are all packaging and false bottoms full of weight and a system of inner and outer chambers all designed to give the illusion the customer is getting more product than they really are. Wouldn’t it be easier just to actually give more product and cut back on the frou-frou packaging?
Excellent thread idea. It gives me the opportunity to blast the Libman company, makers of crappy, plasticky fall-apart household cleaning products (notably the mops, brooms, sponges etc. commonly sold in supermarkets).
No longer will I waste any $$ on their no-quality garbage.
Do you have a box cutter? If so please cut up the tube and take a photo so we can see the chambers and the brand logo. I’m not doubting you - I would just like to see it.
College math teacher here: I won’t get started on the giant racket that is the textbook industry. But… what you are talking about is a loose-leaf book. A 900-page textbook is heavy. The point of a loose-leaf book is that students can put just the portion they need for a particular day in a binder, so that they don’t have to haul the whole thing around.
Three words. Crest. Gum. Detoxify. I was excited because I have gum issues and thought this might do something extra for me. So I compared it with Crest ProHealth and lo and behold, exact same active ingredient in the same percentage. Exact same list of benefits, except Gum Detoxify will also leave your gums feeling cool during and after brushing. :rolleyes: For more than twice the price!
So is it fair to say they took the same product and got legal permission to call it “Detoxify”?
“Mega” toilet paper rolls. When I first started buying the bigger rolls they were actually bigger. Then costs must have gone up so, instead of using the same amount of paper and raising the price, they made the hole bigger and used less paper.
Damn - what a great idea! Can they also scan it in, so they have a digital copy on their computer? (Is that allowed? I bet it runs into some copyright issues if they’re spreading them around.)
The packaging does have a cost, and the face cream is just fat and water, so its probably quite cheap to make - so yes, for the same cost, they could probably give you a jar that contained twice as much, for the same price, but then you would only buy it half as often.
Totino’s Party Pizzas. I feel weird talking about a product that regularly sells for 3 for $5 and is pretty much always on sale for even less than that in a thread about “ripoff” products, but these things have been going sharply downhill for a while. First they shrunk them by at least 30% about 10 years ago, then recently they got rid of the box in favor of a plastic bag, the pizza is now rectangular, and it doesn’t quite taste the same as before.
What are your preferred flavors in men’s socks?