You’re almost certainly correct.
But what’s fun is to think about what the retail world looks like a hundred years from now after this maneuver has been done repeatedly. Marketers being what they are (i.e. scum) you know this process will get iterated.
So eventually sodas come in 3 sizes named “gargantuan”, “incredi-collosal”, and “galactic”. Somewhere along the way, “ginourmous” went from being the latest biggest one, to the middle, to the smallest, to being too small to sell.
I almost missed this one.
I wasn’t thinking and just ordered “Just a Regular fountain soda” at a local hoagie shop.
“Uhh, that’ll be $2.69.” Whaa? I looked up from my wallet to see a cup the size of a tall flower pot.
Its gaping blank maw echoed the underage sub mechanic’s vacant stare: “Uh umm, our Regular is the Extra-Large.”
I do wish I could raise an eyebrow, but I must have achieved the same merely by looking askance, because he quickly replaced it with the only other size – the 20 oz “Medium” cup.
And, I keep hoping the OP will stop back and explain what this means (unless someone else knows):
It could be worse! They could have extra medium!
That was just me trying to be funny (in my way). Per Wiki: Pica is an eating disorder characterized by an appetite for substances that are largely non-nutritive.
Ahhh, that IS funny (in your way).
I dunno what Starbucks(es) you frequent, but I’ve never seen such decipherable wording on their signage.
Exactly. At Starbucks you have to learn their vocabulary. I don’t frequent much, but I remember a tall and a grande, I believe. Fortunately they have visuals at the counter.
True. But McBucks’ chosen words are “Medium”, “Large”, & “Extra Large” in pidgin Italian.
It’s hucksterism, but at least it’s *pretentious *hucksterism. As Mrs. Olsen might say: that’s the richest kind.
Not at any Starbucks I’ve been to. I’ve never ordered anything but a small, medium, or large there and I get what I ordered without any issues or pushback.
It’s a hypothetical medium as in “not that smaller than large”. Or they compare to other people’s medium size. Or they had 3 different sizes but discarded the small size.
You might be able to ORDER a small medium large, but that’s NOT what they have written on their signs, which was my point.