DALLAS — From cereal and ice cream, to toilet paper and even soap, there’s something happening inside North Texas grocery stores. You might have already noticed it. Your cost per item is going up, on many popular everyday items, and the additional cash is buying less product. When the economy began to slump, manufacturers started looking for ways to cut back. However, some people say the choice some manufacturers made is maddening. Enraged shopper, Edgar Dvorsky, started Mouseprint.org when he noticed his groceries were actually shrinking. ‘The companies have found a sneaky way to pass on a price increase by taking out some of the content from the package, but making the package look the same size,’ he explains. Dvorsky noticed the change in a jar of Skippy Peanut Butter. To the untrained eye, there’s no real difference between the old jar and the new jar. But if you put to two side by side and look closely, you’ll see there are actually two fewer ounces in the new Skippy jar than the old. ‘Most people don’t check the net weight of a product to make sure it hasn’t been reduced […]
Tuesday, February 3rd, 2009
Companies Shrinking Product Sizes, But Not Prices
Author: NERISSA KNIGHT
Source: CBS 11 News
Publication Date: Nov 14, 2008 10:00 pm US/Central
Link: Companies Shrinking Product Sizes, But Not Prices
Source: CBS 11 News
Publication Date: Nov 14, 2008 10:00 pm US/Central
Link: Companies Shrinking Product Sizes, But Not Prices
Stephan: Thanks to Rosemarie Pilkington, PhD.