Alright, I can concede on this one being true in some cases, but I have dealt with having to turn right around and buy another access code when my kid dropped a class and then couldn’t use it the very next term, for whatever reason. You know these textbook companies have no consistency whatsoever. 
I always thought the men’s deodorant was bigger because men’s pits are bigger.
Airport food is less of a ripoff than it used to be. When I started flying, airport food was even more relatively expensive than it is now, and was also much worse in quality. Sure you often didn’t need it, since you ate on the plane, but if you were hungry it was something to dread.
I’ve actually had reasonable meals in airports in the past decade. One or two even good. And lots of airport authorities force chains to charge the same inside as outside.
Nice.
I’ll be damned. I didn’t think they could have made them any worse. Is the “pepperoni” still rabbit pellet shaped?
I am of the minions who loves me some hershey bars. Not a fan of kisses or the white chocolate hershey bar. Regular bar for me! I can’t, for the life of, figure out why anybody would not like them. They are perfect. I miss the two part wrapper, it was so satisfying to open. I love hersheys syrup too.
Many probiotics are a con, Probiotics: how each fared and what they contain
Yoghurt generally is a rip off… Unless they pasteurize it / add a load of yuk to increase shelf life, all yoghurt contains live cultures, but they now charge extra for that!
Adam Smith said that people of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise price. Still true a couple of centuries later, the only difference being they’re far more practised at it these days. Bastards indeed.
I think Pittsburgh may have started this trend.
There’s still overcharging elsewhere, but it doesn’t seem anywhere near as bad as it used to be.
The pooping yogurts (with the probiotics) I noticed the other day are 4 ounces!
This is bullcrap! The right size for a serving of yogurt is EIGHT OUNCES!
Oh yeah, let’s talk headphones. A while back, they took apart a pair of Beats by Dre headphones and found four metal parts that did nothing at all (so, really, metal slugs). They were in there to increase the weight, thus giving the impression that the headphones were more substantial, or better built, or something, and thus worth more. The dude who did the teardown, “estimates the cost of goods for the Beats By Dre Solo headphones, without shipping and labor, is $16.89, or about 8 percent of the retail price.”
That half are WRONG to be angry, and their opinions should be dismissed. The RIGHT size for a family pack of ice cream is a HALF GALLON. Yes, costs increase, which means that prices have to increase, but ADULTS (who are the only people who have any business buying ice cream in the supermarket) are presumed to be able to handle such facts without having a tantrum.
The HALF GALLON is also the RIGHT size for a carton of orange juice. And it’s also going away.
Dammit.
There’s different levels of Energy Star, though. On the label there’s a “sliding scale” of how energy efficient something is. Your fridge and your sister’s dishwasher might be more energy efficient than the lowest cutoff level to qualify, but it doesn’t mean they are extremely energy efficient.
The dude screwed up. His teardown was of a pair of counterfeit Beats. After tearing down a pair of real Beats, he got an estimate of a whopping $20.19.
Not sure how much I’s trust an estimate from someone that didn’t know he had counterfeits, though. I would think shipping, labor and other costs are a major part of the final cost of most products. Especially the “other.”
I loved Totino’s Party Pizzas! They had a unique taste (in a good way!) and I didn’t feel guilty eating the whole thing because it wasn’t super big.
Damn straight. I see my friend eating them and ask him, why bother?? Four ounces is maybe two bites. OK for his little granddaughters, not OK for a grown adult!
I like Hershey’s too and also miss the double wrapper. But I still love unwrapping it and seeing that smoooooth bar.
Ever since the Bimbo buyout, anything Hostess is sub-par. Don’t get me started about Susy-Q’s–primary ingredients have changed to cement dust and air-puffed lard.
I mourn for what was.
I paid someone actual money to do this to my bound books when I was in grad school.
I love the loose leaf option for my students!
In the case of Beats, we know what that “other” is. My cousin worked for a brief time at the Furzhaus Hub, where they were in the business of moving pelts. One day, a small package arrived, which when unwrapped appeared to be a P-51 plastic model airplane kit. Inside the box, however, were a couple hundred labels. Because, it would seem, the right name on a coat can make an enormous difference in what it can be sold for.
I think there is a lot of stuff that works that way.
But, a HALF GALLON isn’t metric. It’s gotta be metric to be modern. So, let’s make it 1.75 Liters, that’s metric.
What? I guess we could make it 2.0 Liters, but that’s more than a HALF GALLON (by a whopping 3.6 ounces, or nearly a half-cup), so we’d have to raise the costs, by at least about 25% or so…