Showing posts with label food. Show all posts
Showing posts with label food. Show all posts

Monday, 10 November 2014

Food companies that try to fool you

There are many ways that companies are trying to avoid raising prices - though I think that often it is more like "there are many ways that companies are trying to avoid being seen as raising prices".

Now, I'm sure that this company/food would never try to fool you, but I've seen so many things under the general category of "make the container smaller" that I wonder if there are any products that have remained the same. Beer maybe? Some of the worst offenders:
1. Allen's Apple Juice - if the can gets any smaller it will be 'individually sized'
2. Frozen Juice
3. Some pop (soda for my potential American reader)

I thought I'd also found an especially egregious example with pizza (under the similar "large package but less weight/volume" category, but I later saw that it was due to 'thin crust' versus 'regular'. Still, if you're buying thin crust I'm guessing you are probably getting a little less of the toppings too:

Standard size, and 901 g.


Standard size, and 480 g.

Oh well, I'm sure that craft brewers will never change the size of their bottles!

Monday, 22 September 2014

Fine foods(?) and food pricing

I was naturally attracted to this food, and also found it interesting that:
a) the original price ends in the classic -,99 (so it's 'just a little more than $9')
b) the reduction amount is $1.21 (so it's 'much more than $1.00, and even more than $1.20')