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Skriven 2014-02-20 23:44:49 av Nancy Backus (1:261/1381.0)
  Kommentar till text 10005 av MICHAEL LOO (1:123/140)
Ärende: Re: dishonesty 220
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-=> Quoting MICHAEL LOO to NANCY BACKUS on 17 Feb 14  12:01:00 <=-

 NB>> Somehow, I doubt they were even that upfront about it... probably
 NB>> only gave the machine makers the desired specs...
 ML> But that assumes that the line machines wanted replacing.

True... but we don't know that they didn't want replacing at that point. 

 NB>> The usual explanation of
 NB>> why the slightly smaller size usually has to do with "so we didn't
 NB>> have to raise the price per package"... also, of course, a copout...  

 ML> And the packages get smaller until someone actually squawks
 ML> loud enough. 

At least the "half-gallons" haven't devolved below the 3 quarts they
went to... and it has been a few years...  there are plenty of other
foodstuffs though that do keep getting just a tad smaller, or a tad
lighter... and then, just a tad, and then just another tad, more
pricey... almost the equivalent of boiling a frog... ;0

 ML> Speaking of which, somebody brought an offering
 ML> for my dinner last night - Haagen Dazs mango sorbet for me and
 ML> Ben & Jerry's vanilla ice cream for everyone else. The sorbet
 ML> was exceedingly sweet but appropriately mangoish. I tasted the
 ML> ice cream just because and found it very well made but lacking
 ML> in flavor - it's as though the company said, here's plain
 ML> vanilla, but everything else we sell is not plain vanilla, so
 ML> do you and us a flavor by buying Cherry Garcia and Chunky Monkey
 ML> and stuff like that instead.

Cherry Garcia's good stuff, though...  ;)  You'd think they'd at least
pay the vanilla enough respect to vanilla bean it, however...  Haven't
been paying them that much attention lately... do they have any other
plain flavors....?

 ML>> And I suppose we should all have said no back when the
 ML>> saying was good, the same way we should have to meat glue,
 ML>> fake crab, unripenable peaches, 59 oz half gallons of
 ML>> juice, any number of things.
 NB>> WAS there ever a time when the consumers really had a say... could
 NB>> have said no and had it have any effect...?  At least in this day and
 NB>> age...? 
 ML> That sounds like defeatism. Unfortunately, that might be
 ML> my fallback attitude as well.

It's not defeatism when it's realistic... I think...  ;)  Speaking of
which, at least Wegmans' half-gallon juices are still 64 ounces... :)
I just checked...  ;)

ttyl         neb

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