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Toilet Roll
Working in retail I've been seeing this trend with many products
and when it came to toilet paper my co workers and I found it
hilarious.
Instead of products going up in price they just re size it and
give you less, sometimes the price still goes up and you get
less.
As American behind's get bigger
American toilet paper gets smaller.
Has anyone noticed this elsewhere?
LOL
Kevin
Oh dear it's just not Andrex or Awesome!
I have two boys 6 and 8 years old. They love tv dinners. I have noticed that in the past two years they have made the cartons much more shallow, hence less food. The dinners that have compartments are also much smaller. My boys use to eat one now they have to eat two of them. Don't know if net weight is less or not. lol
Rick H
Man I remember when those came in foil trays and you had to put them in the oven as microwaves were not common yet.
I'm sure they were much bigger then.
No it isn't and I bet those are the same size as they have been.
and much softer on your behind as well
The beers in New Zealand have done that, too, over the last couple of years. What was once a 20-pack now has 18 cans, for the same price.
And I'm sure the chocolate bars are shrinking, too
Oh yeah same here, our 24 packs are becoming 20 paks with some
brands, namely Coke and one of the beer companies.
If Cadbury's becomes part of Kraft I can only wonder how
they'll miniaturize them.
Yea. That reminds me of a few years ago when Dannon suddenly shrank their yogurt/fruit cups from 8 oz. to 6 oz. without, but at the same price. I quite buying them and started buying the large size and adding my own fruit.
Indeed since yoplait was always 6 oz if you can't beat em join em and put up the price.
A "typical" can of tuna packed in water used to contain 8 oz. of fish, then went down to 7 oz. a few years ago, and down again to 5.5 oz. sometime last year, yet the prices have gone up.
it's insane for people like me who have to deal with shelf spacing for this. When they change it they also change UPC codes etc.
Measured a 2 x 4 lately?
No so I'll take your word for it. Last time I was a Menards I
was looking at landscape bricks.
Standard dimensions for 2 x 4 lumber is 1.5 x 3.5 inches. What really cheeses me off is the fact that (in Wisconsin, at least) you can't even build a home using your own lumber anymore, but are forced to purchase "certified" lumber, instead.
Ugh... don't get me started.
Oh go on get started, I did.
At least we don't have that smelly Chinese drywall everywhere
like they do down south.
Actually, dimensions for a 2x4 have always been less than 2" by 4", because those measurements are taken before the wood is cured, and the curing process causes it to become more compact as water is drawn out of the lumber. I remember noticing this years ago playing with my dad's tape measure during one of his innumerable home repair projects, and he told me why it was.
It's true that lumber will lose some size due to drying, but not a full half-inch in all directions. The rough-cut lumber we made ourselves for various building projects as I was growing up was always within 1/4-1/8 of an inch of the "true" size when fully cured.
Isn't it because when they sand it down to make it smoother, they take off the rest so that its 1.5x3.5
and its the same way with any other lumber, a half inch short of the measurements on every side
Yes, as I understand it, most of the "loss" to lumber's dimensions results from the process of being planed. Actually, I don't have a problem with this, and don't regard it as getting "ripped off." My gripe is with the state government forbidding an individual from producing and building with his or her own, self-produced lumber.
My guess would be that it's a question of verifiable building quality/safety. The gov't is not going to attempt to inspect the process for everyone who could conceivably cut a chunk of lumber, so by limiting the construction use of lumber to only "certified" lumber providers, they have a more reasonable method of ensuring that any buildings constructed meet minimum specs for structural integrity. Now if they're restricting the use of lumber for non-structural use, that's a whole 'nother animal.
They must have a job lot of brown over there!
I know it"s your favorite colour and the tins of paint are smaller as well.
Hahaha, I couldn't stop laughing after reading this :-D
I thought some might be amused by that comment.
If and when you ever visit over here you'll be shocked at what
you see. Especially in the South it seems to be worse.
Dog food used to be $27 for a 44Lbs bag. Now it's $54 for a 35Lbs bag!
Thieves!!!
True thieves they are, Those 35 lb bags are much easier to handle though. But $54 for dog food of all things.
The Bible calls it the love of maney.
The largest oilfield has been discovered in America but the price of Gas will not go down!
Now look at this in a bigger view and you wil see what 1st Timothy 6:10 is talkng about "The love of money is the root of all evil"
Now watch our ewcconomy fall!
Birdman
Ah yes the good book.
I can only imagine that's gotten smaller somehow.
Fewer verses perhaps or it used to be 10 commandments for $19.95
Now you only get 8 commandments for $24.95
I wouldn't be surprised.
I sure have been noticing this Kevin quite a bit, and some of it is done in a most "sneaky" way.
Anyone bought one of those big Pop Corn tins lately and noticed the Pop Corn is about 1-1/2" from the top? It wasn't like this last year, the year before that and even 10 years ago.
Justin~
ps:Be cautious at the Dollar Tree stores now.
I avoid dollar stores there two upscale for me
"It's about the dollars, always the(insert word here)dollars" Joe Pesci from Casino once said.
Indeed the Dollars, or Euros, or Pounds, or even Danish Krona.
Noticed the same thing in cracker boxes. I was wondering if that new toilet paper has reached terminal width? :)
Reminds me of a recent Wendy's (A fast-food chain here in the US of A) commercial showing somebody picking up this tiny quarter-sized burger and thimble-sized drink from another chain, and somebody else eating a nice big Wendy's burger.
- Oren
I'm partial to Culvers myself although I imagine you don't have them in your neck of the woods.
I love Culvers! There are 3 of them here in the Dallas/Fort Worth, TX area. The nearest one being 16 miles from me - wish it was closer!
I do stop by the one in San Antonio, TX when I'm down there.
- Oren
I wasn't sure they were down there yet. They're everywhere up here, my town of 43,000 has 2.
...oh, and it's going to get even smaller when this nano-technology thing takes off.
Nano-arse-wipe anyone [grin]
- Oren (looking under couch for the car...)
I'm sure genetic engineering will eventually find a way to make people smaller.
Ice Cream Carton
I don't know if anyone's noticed this, but after decades of being two full quarts most of the first-line grocery-store ice-creams--Breyers, Edy's, etc.--have gone down to 56 ounces. Of course, they're often paired with heavy discounts, which seems to confuse the issue as much as anything. The discounts aren't always the same, and I only buy when they're on sale anyway, so it's not too bad, I guess. After all, gentle inflation seems to be part of a healthy economy.
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Yup just 3 or 4 years ago you used to buy ice cream in half gallons now they're 1.75 quarts. And as they're sold by volume if you put them on a scale you'll see they aerate the cheaper brands so you get less sill.
It's too bad the hair salons aren't trimming less hair for the same price
As in Crappy Cut's hair salon special $7 cuts. They used to trim 2 inches in the old days now you only get 1.25 inches off
Wouldn't that be nice.
LOL
Kevin
lol I've noticed this too! My favorite brand of pasta costs the same but the boxes mysteriously shrunk. Hmmmmm
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