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.
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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.