I live, write, and garden in the PNW with my husband of 27 years, disabled daughter, college-aged son, and my 84-year-old mother. We have paid off $250,000.00 worth of debt (if you include the interest) in the last fifteen years and as of 6/12/2020 are 100% DEBT FREE!!!!...Just change the size.
I hate when places do this sort of thing. My current rant is against Little Caesar's pizza restaurant. About six months ago or so, they started putting less sauce in the little containers of Crazy Sauce. Used to be one container of sauce was needed to get through one container of Crazy Bread. Now, it's not. Not if you are a real dipper like the people in my family. It annoyed me, though not nearly as much as the change to the smaller container did 3 or 4 years ago.
Then around the same time they did that, they dropped the number of wings in the small size from ten to eight. Again there was no change in price, but definitely a change in what you got.
Well, yesterday when we ordered our bread, and we got 3 packs because we go through a lot of it, it was all very much shorter than its ever been. Usually you get five or six long pieces and 2 shorter ones. Well, all the bread we got yesterday was a good 3 to 4 inches shorter than what its ever been before, and all the pieces were more uniform in length. I might have thought it was a mutant loaf if it hadn't been that all three of them were like that. No change in price, though.
I like my stuff in the quantities I'm used to. I understand if they have to raise their prices on occassion. But this kind of backwards sizing really annoys me. I feel like they are cheating me through deception and I do not like it.
The only reason I go there is for the wings and breadsticks. It's not for the pizza, that's for sure.
Don't Change the Price...
August 5th, 2007 at 06:56 am
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August 5th, 2007 at 01:11 pm 1186319512
I'm with you. Keep the volume the same and increase the price if necessary.
I've run into a problem a couple of times when making a recipe that called for a certain amount of an ingredient, like a 16 oz can of something. I go searching only to find that the cans are now 14 oz, not 16. So do I short the recipe by 2 oz or do I buy 2 cans and take 2 oz out of the 2nd can and be stuck with 12 oz extra?
August 5th, 2007 at 02:15 pm 1186323334
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August 5th, 2007 at 06:49 pm 1186339788
One company is currently "right sizing" all of their products. We just got the list and some of these are only changing by 1-2 ounces! Why bother going through the whole pain of changing the packaging, changing your market tracking, etc. for a couple of measly ounces?
I have the same rant about the postal service. Quit raising the stamp price one or two pennies every year. Make a bigger jump if you need to, but stick with it for a few years! I'm sick of always needing those supplemental stamps.