Nah, it’s completely off-topic. Reading about sneaky tactics to technically comply with letter of the law reminded me of credit card companies, a much more egregious offender in my opinion, even if the OP’s credit card company acted appropriately.
Nothing more here than a curmudgeonly tangent.
I buy a Walgreen’s substitute for claratin. This month it was packaged in an “Extra Value Pack.” The package was approximately six inches high and four inches wide and and inch and a half deep. The side of the package did show that it still contained only a small bottle, but the larger packaging suggested that the shopper might be getting a larger bottle than previously purchased. The package contained 60 pills – a two month supply.
When I opened the bottle at home, the bottle was empty except for the bottom one-fifth approximately. I measured the actual space taken up by the pills. One-half teaspoon.
They didn’t lie to me. They just wasted a hell of a lot of cardboard and fooled the eye.
This one I can understand, though. Below a certain size, pill bottles can be extremely hard to open, especially for older or arthritic hands. They just HAVE to be a certain size in order to be able to get those damn childproof caps off. Even if they only have 10 pills in them.
ETA: I have no idea why they had to waste al that cardboard making such a big box, though.
Slightly harder to steal, probably.
Yep, harder to steal. Smaller packages are much easier to steal than larger ones, and smaller ones are much easier to conceal once stolen.