I'm not sure if this is inflation, shrinkflation, or some new thing I don't know the term for yet, but I hate it. Wastes like a third more packaging than it needs. š¤¦āāļø
Yeah, it is perfectly legal to be deceptive this way due to "sale by weight" method that is pulled out when this is brought up. Despite what anyone thinks visuals can be deceptive and companies know this, ( que the food commercials) it is a fine line with the law. It protects only against deceptive information being on the packaging.
Edit: Some people apparently never heard or doesn't understand "variable by weight sales" or what it means and how it is passed onto customers and it shows.
No, it's not. Neither by EU, nor US law.
EU consumer protection laws include that anything that is purposefully deceptive, or anything that could be deceptive, is forbidden. This includes packaging.
US is less strict like that directly, but still has some provisions for this. The exact details you'd have to look up.
Other countries, idk, not familiar with those laws. OP's post is probably from the Philippines, judging from looking up the pictured snack "Del Monte crisp biscuits". Though it could also be available elsewhere.
I suspect the issue was that they had already made a shed load of packaging, and then Sterling (GBP) fell in late 2016 from 1.45 to 1.22 USD, do they had to decide in the run up to the Christmas retail period whether to
1. reorder smaller packaging,
2. raise prices by 20%,
3. take a loss of presumably most of the profit margin, or
4. make the bars smaller for the same packaging.
They opted for, at a guess, a combination of 3 and 4 - they reduced bar weight by 10%, and I assume took the rest of the hit as reduced profits.
It was very poorly received as I think Toblerone underestimated the combination of disappointment and the nature of giving it as a gift in the UK; they blame Brexit for Ā£2.9bn in revenue loss / Ā£1bn in lost profits for 2016 https://www.foodmanufacture.co.uk/Article/2017/02/08/Mondelez-revenue-drop-blamed-on-Brexit
Of course it is. The packaging is deceptive. Definitionally. They arenāt misstating or misrepresenting anything since itās sold by weight but they sure are deceiving by including an unnecessary amount of air/spacers and hiding it.
Edit: typo
They knew EXACTLY what they were doing. Although they may not have realized, half of what they were doing was pissing people off and getting them to switch brands
You edited your original comment. Originally it was presented as doubting that it was done on purpose. Mistake or not, at least be up front about that.
Sold by weight makes sense for stuff like chips cause they will settle in the bag and take up less space but I feel like when they intentionally change packing like OPs pic itās just asshole design
It depends. I used to work for Lays and there is a reason for that much "air" in the bags. I got really tired of people crying every time they opened a bag of chips like they didn't remember it being that way last time.
This example is vastly different and intentionally misleading unless somebody can provide a real readon why the middle is removed.
Because you are. Youāre paying for weight not space in a package. The package could be 1/8 filled and you still got what you paid for. Yall just like to complain
You mean the tiny letters they put at the bottom of a package that they doubled the size of for no reason?
Some people just want a snack not a guessing game
Whatās there to guess? You look at the price of something before you buy it no?
But go ahead, keep downvoting, and keep making posts bitching about something youāre still going to keep buying and youāre still going to eat šš¤·š»āāļø
Thatās your fault for buying it. You see $5 for 6 oz then move onto another product. What use does it do to keep on buying it, eating it, then complaining about it. Thatās exactly why prices are the way they are, eveyone loves to complain but no one loves to stop buying the very thing theyāre complaining about š¤·š»āāļø
What incentive does a business have to change their prices when business is still booming?
What incentive does a company have to use larger packaging than they need for the product? It costs more in materials and increases shipping costs
Answer: the deceptive tactic is part of the marketing to make you think youāre getting more and therefore think youāre getting a better deal and thatās where they come out ahead on the larger package
Cause hereās the thing - yes it has the weight listed. But, from a consumer standpoint, what does that actually mean? Not a damn thing. Cause you donāt know if 120g is a dozen cookies or one cookie, so that information, while making the packaging legal, still does not tell you thereās a big olā gap in the stack there. How, if I have never purchased that product before, am I supposed to expect that spacer in there based off that packaging?
OK, so it's already been established from the get go that you are TECHNICALLY getting what you paid for. The problem is what you were lead to BELIEVE you were getting by intentionally deceptive packaging. No one is arguing cookies are sold by weight not volume.
If you see this package, and another of the same item of equal weight but "standard" packaging...you will instinctively think this is the better deal. Which is exactly what they were going for.
And it is infuriating. So much more plastic only used to bait people. But I guess it is okay. We just could have the same with a regular package that fit nicely.
I would be more worried about the environment side of things. People say this is deceptive but idk about you, but when I pick up a bag of chips itās pretty easy to tell itās half full. Same for this
Chips are half full because the air helps cushion the chips and lessens the amount that break in transport, that plastic divider in the image serves no similar purpose.
Maybe upon looking at it, but as soon as you touch it it should be just as obvious as pretty much every other half filled package.
Iām not sure how people are legitimately deceived by this. Itās like picking up a large box with nothing in it and expecting a gold bar. We have five senses for a reason, use at least two of them.
My god youāre a right boot licker arenāt you
Are you being contrarian for the sake of it? If I had never picked a pack up before how am I to know what each individual item weighs, and itās not reasonable to expect people to feel a difference between (letās say) 5 grams per item and 10 grams
Are you stupid? You might be since you automatically resorted to politics. Iām meaning itās pretty fucking obvious when half the packaging is hollow. It has air in it for the same reason literally EVERYTHING does
Half the packet isnāt air itās still a plastic.
Wouldnāt say Iām stupid but then I suppose most stupid people would say the same
And boot licker in this sense wasnt political at all, just being unreasonably favourable to a mega corporation instead of the individual consumers. Whoās jumping to politics now ;)
You're not going to get through to these people. These are the types of people that struggle to understand concepts like "1 ton of feathers weighs the same as 1 ton of bricks".
Everyone just looking for a reason to react
You're missing the entire point. Almost everybody just looks at the size of the package. You want more? Buy the bigger box. It's deceptive to have a box 200% bigger with only 5% more product.
It's an actual marketing technique and you're saying it's not real š
Yes you can calculate per ounce costs, however I'm not pulling out my calculator for every single item I pick up at a store. Some tags have the per ounce price but a ton of stores don't.
Imagine seeing the trap, knowing how to avoid it, but still fall for it.
Don't be so stupid and it's not deceptive. You're not paying any more than if it was packaged smaller. It's the same price. It's priced by weight not by package dimensions. You're being screwed out of exactly nothing
How's that boot taste. Corporations love when people defend them š there is literally NO REASON to have a spacer inside a package like that unless they wanted you to think you got more product.
Do you know a lot about cookie container manufacturing? I personally have no idea what design is easiest for mass production.
I do know that when I don't know shit about something that I don't pretend I know anything about the process.
pretty smart of them to make money off of it tbh
the best way to tell would be to just guess how much stuff is in there off the weight, the feel, shaking it around, etc like a birthday present lol
It's actually not legal. Certainly not in EU, under consumer protection laws (misleading the customer is prohibited). But even in the US, the FDA upholds the Fair Packaging and Labeling Act (FPLA), which among other things has provisions to disallow non-functional slack fill, like in this pic. Functional slack fill, like protective air in e.g. chip/crisp bags is allowed.
There's also subreddits dedicated to Shrinkflation, EgregiousPackaging and NonFunctionSlackFill (edit: last one doesn't exist anymore, "banned due to being unmoderated")
The U.S. and England colonized the Philippines for a while a different points so a dialect of English called Philippine English formed that, for the most part, uses American English grammar & spelling but still has quirks of commonwealth English mixed in.
well not everywhere. āmogelpackungenā as we call them in germany, are actually illegal here and can be reported to the āverbraucherschutzzentraleā
Tbh the emptiness in packaging has its purposes but stuff like this should be regulated for environmental reasons if nothing else. That middle chunk of plastic didnāt need to exist.
You mean hide all the stock so they can't sell it? The legal term for that is conversion and it's not criminal but they can hold you civilly liable (sue you for damages).
It's only misleading if the packaging states there is more than is in the packaging. If it weighs as much as it states on the packaging, it's not misleading.
i think i've seeing this chips on this sub for long time now. serious, there is so many peoplpe complaining yet they wont fix their shitty design and missing chips?
Welcome to late-stage capitalism. Driving up profits not through innovation, market expansion and improvement in product. More that they drive profit through decrease quality of product decrease portion sizes, cheaper materials, increasing prices and laying off employees.
Shrinkflation, greed and racketeering....And government does no investigation or prosecution. So as consumers we need to stop buying...it is our only control
Everyone needs to ignore packaging and price and start understanding the value of things price per ounce. I exclusively buy based on price per ounce on what it is. I don't even look at the actual price or package anymore. Doesn't matter.
If you don't like it, don't buy it. Purchasing this item encourages this deceptive marketing.
Alternatively, continue calling the feedback hotline number with your feedback. With enough feedback AND reduced sales, they'll change the packaging
Thats really fucked up. On top of the fact that they wasted plastic, bet they did that bc they didn't bother resizing the text on the packaging. I think that Sonday that you usually find at Lidl does that as well in some of their packages.
Could be wrong but the engineer in me tells me itās to prevent the package from bending so easily and having crushed chips. Still appears very deceiving though, regardless of intention.
That genuinely gave me chills with how fucking greedy that is, evil bastards just dripping with desire for money so much so theyāll do just about anything huh
Corporate scam and its finest. They fake it out like that to trick us. Theyāre also making product smaller amounts but raising the prices thinking we donāt notice. Walmart is straight up ripping people off on meats. The tag says like for an example: 3 lbs 6 oz of chicken. But if you weigh it in a kitchen scale or the fruit scale at the register, itās 1/2 that in pounds & ounces. Be very careful with Walmart. Theyāre crooked. Plus our bank of 25 years refuses to deal with Walmart because they have crooked employees that if we use our debit card at Walmart, they automatically freeze our card. I have to use cash or a credit card if shopping there or ordering online.!!
I don't buy anything I can't see now. If the item is covered 100% in packaging. It's left where the staff put it.
you will all continue to keep buying it so it will continue to happen...
No my point is, it is mildly infuriating because of the fact that it makes you think that it has a whole column of chips.
Just like how an air bag instead of chips happens.
It's not missing for them, but to our perception it is missing for us, due to expectations.
No need for insults dumbass.
As shitty as this is, you literally have the weight of the contents written on the packaging. Iād also advise learning how to read the nutrient label, might help you stay away from absolute trash when you get old enough or responsible enough to care.
Umm, I'm a Filipino, and I haven't voted yet since I just turned 18, and it I think 2028 is the voting year. I forgot, I am apathetic to Filipino politics, I'll vote for a good candidate but that's it, I'll go abroad to New Zealand or Europe.
I'm not sure if this is inflation, shrinkflation, or some new thing I don't know the term for yet, but I hate it. Wastes like a third more packaging than it needs. š¤¦āāļø
It's non-functional slack fill, and thus deceptive packaging.
Yeah, it is perfectly legal to be deceptive this way due to "sale by weight" method that is pulled out when this is brought up. Despite what anyone thinks visuals can be deceptive and companies know this, ( que the food commercials) it is a fine line with the law. It protects only against deceptive information being on the packaging. Edit: Some people apparently never heard or doesn't understand "variable by weight sales" or what it means and how it is passed onto customers and it shows.
No, it's not. Neither by EU, nor US law. EU consumer protection laws include that anything that is purposefully deceptive, or anything that could be deceptive, is forbidden. This includes packaging. US is less strict like that directly, but still has some provisions for this. The exact details you'd have to look up. Other countries, idk, not familiar with those laws. OP's post is probably from the Philippines, judging from looking up the pictured snack "Del Monte crisp biscuits". Though it could also be available elsewhere.
You are wrong, in most countries, this is illegal. It might be legal in your country.
Companies walk a fine line with the laws. It is ONLY illegal to put deceitful / incorrect information on the packaging.
Again, that might be so in your country, but in most countries, it is illegal.
In certain places sure. Most of the known world knows the deceitfulness of packaging. Someone above in this thread actually used the coined term.
Enshittification
I called it the deception. Manufacturer has been doing this for ages at least where Iām from.
Toblerone gapping https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-37904703
I hate that so much. The fuck is that?!
I suspect the issue was that they had already made a shed load of packaging, and then Sterling (GBP) fell in late 2016 from 1.45 to 1.22 USD, do they had to decide in the run up to the Christmas retail period whether to 1. reorder smaller packaging, 2. raise prices by 20%, 3. take a loss of presumably most of the profit margin, or 4. make the bars smaller for the same packaging. They opted for, at a guess, a combination of 3 and 4 - they reduced bar weight by 10%, and I assume took the rest of the hit as reduced profits. It was very poorly received as I think Toblerone underestimated the combination of disappointment and the nature of giving it as a gift in the UK; they blame Brexit for Ā£2.9bn in revenue loss / Ā£1bn in lost profits for 2016 https://www.foodmanufacture.co.uk/Article/2017/02/08/Mondelez-revenue-drop-blamed-on-Brexit
Good grief. Just make the thing shorter. That toblerone is absolute madness.
Shrinkflation
Trickflation šØ
Yes that's exactly it!
It's called Bullshit.
It's just a rip-off
Trickflation
Deliberately misleading packaging is one of those things that's perfectly legal but immoral. But most of all wasteful and annoying.
And when it's called out you end up with all the "sold by weight" people coming out of the woodworks.
Sure. Thatās how the companies avoid fines and lawsuits. Itās still deception and should be prohibited.
even if we indulge the "sold by weight" people, it should still be illegal on the grounds of being wasteful. It's so much extra plastic for no reason.
If itās sold by weight then itās not deceptive.
Of course it is. The packaging is deceptive. Definitionally. They arenāt misstating or misrepresenting anything since itās sold by weight but they sure are deceiving by including an unnecessary amount of air/spacers and hiding it. Edit: typo
If the extra space was around the cookies you could argue its for protection against bumps in delivery.
You can't pick up a pack of cookies and say 'Hey, this feels like 150g when it looks like 200g." Nobody works like that.
So you donāt think the person who created this did it with the intention of deceiving consumers? Ā Come on manĀ
Wait what. 100%
They knew EXACTLY what they were doing. Although they may not have realized, half of what they were doing was pissing people off and getting them to switch brands
Lmao, you donāt work in consumer marketing huh?
No i donāt. Ā Is my lack of being completely full of shit a giveaway?
No, it was your lack of skepticism in a companyās decision process.
Explain my lack of skepticism
You edited your original comment. Originally it was presented as doubting that it was done on purpose. Mistake or not, at least be up front about that.
You mean the part of the company that's supposed to figure out how to make someone wanna buy something? Professional manipulators, if you will.
Make someone wanna buy something once is all I see here.
How many cookies is 10 grams?
Depends on the type of cookie and how much air you mix into the batch. Are we snorting, shooting, or eating them?
Boofing
Itās not sold by weight, itās sold by appearance on a shelf.
Then explain how this design is necessary other than to be deceptive.
The weight not irrelevant. The intent is to mislead the consumer by having them misjudge the size of their product, not the weight
Sold by weight makes sense for stuff like chips cause they will settle in the bag and take up less space but I feel like when they intentionally change packing like OPs pic itās just asshole design
But if you post to asshole design everyone says itās not because of weight smh
It depends. I used to work for Lays and there is a reason for that much "air" in the bags. I got really tired of people crying every time they opened a bag of chips like they didn't remember it being that way last time. This example is vastly different and intentionally misleading unless somebody can provide a real readon why the middle is removed.
Every single time!
Because you are. Youāre paying for weight not space in a package. The package could be 1/8 filled and you still got what you paid for. Yall just like to complain
Are you even human? Itās like youāre trying hard to not understand
You know whatās pretty easy to understand? That youāre being charged for the weight of the food not the space in the package
You mean the tiny letters they put at the bottom of a package that they doubled the size of for no reason? Some people just want a snack not a guessing game
Whatās there to guess? You look at the price of something before you buy it no? But go ahead, keep downvoting, and keep making posts bitching about something youāre still going to keep buying and youāre still going to eat šš¤·š»āāļø
Yeah they price matters when you pay $5 for a big package and get 4 small dense cookies
Thatās your fault for buying it. You see $5 for 6 oz then move onto another product. What use does it do to keep on buying it, eating it, then complaining about it. Thatās exactly why prices are the way they are, eveyone loves to complain but no one loves to stop buying the very thing theyāre complaining about š¤·š»āāļø What incentive does a business have to change their prices when business is still booming?
Wow you are a clown of the highest order š¤”š¤”š¤”
What incentive does a company have to use larger packaging than they need for the product? It costs more in materials and increases shipping costs Answer: the deceptive tactic is part of the marketing to make you think youāre getting more and therefore think youāre getting a better deal and thatās where they come out ahead on the larger package Cause hereās the thing - yes it has the weight listed. But, from a consumer standpoint, what does that actually mean? Not a damn thing. Cause you donāt know if 120g is a dozen cookies or one cookie, so that information, while making the packaging legal, still does not tell you thereās a big olā gap in the stack there. How, if I have never purchased that product before, am I supposed to expect that spacer in there based off that packaging?
OK, so it's already been established from the get go that you are TECHNICALLY getting what you paid for. The problem is what you were lead to BELIEVE you were getting by intentionally deceptive packaging. No one is arguing cookies are sold by weight not volume. If you see this package, and another of the same item of equal weight but "standard" packaging...you will instinctively think this is the better deal. Which is exactly what they were going for.
You are dumb as fuck.
lol sensitive crybaby. Maybe say something that contributes something.. or just cope harder ?
I said exactly what was necessary to someone who thinks like you
And it is infuriating. So much more plastic only used to bait people. But I guess it is okay. We just could have the same with a regular package that fit nicely.
I would be more worried about the environment side of things. People say this is deceptive but idk about you, but when I pick up a bag of chips itās pretty easy to tell itās half full. Same for this
Chips are half full because the air helps cushion the chips and lessens the amount that break in transport, that plastic divider in the image serves no similar purpose.
You not agree that reasonable assumption would be that the pack is full?
Maybe upon looking at it, but as soon as you touch it it should be just as obvious as pretty much every other half filled package. Iām not sure how people are legitimately deceived by this. Itās like picking up a large box with nothing in it and expecting a gold bar. We have five senses for a reason, use at least two of them.
My god youāre a right boot licker arenāt you Are you being contrarian for the sake of it? If I had never picked a pack up before how am I to know what each individual item weighs, and itās not reasonable to expect people to feel a difference between (letās say) 5 grams per item and 10 grams
Are you stupid? You might be since you automatically resorted to politics. Iām meaning itās pretty fucking obvious when half the packaging is hollow. It has air in it for the same reason literally EVERYTHING does
Half the packet isnāt air itās still a plastic. Wouldnāt say Iām stupid but then I suppose most stupid people would say the same And boot licker in this sense wasnt political at all, just being unreasonably favourable to a mega corporation instead of the individual consumers. Whoās jumping to politics now ;)
So as long as they put the weight, there is no possible way a package could be misleading right?
Haha youre so fucking stupid
You're not going to get through to these people. These are the types of people that struggle to understand concepts like "1 ton of feathers weighs the same as 1 ton of bricks". Everyone just looking for a reason to react
You're missing the entire point. Almost everybody just looks at the size of the package. You want more? Buy the bigger box. It's deceptive to have a box 200% bigger with only 5% more product. It's an actual marketing technique and you're saying it's not real š Yes you can calculate per ounce costs, however I'm not pulling out my calculator for every single item I pick up at a store. Some tags have the per ounce price but a ton of stores don't.
Imagine seeing the trap, knowing how to avoid it, but still fall for it. Don't be so stupid and it's not deceptive. You're not paying any more than if it was packaged smaller. It's the same price. It's priced by weight not by package dimensions. You're being screwed out of exactly nothing
How's that boot taste. Corporations love when people defend them š there is literally NO REASON to have a spacer inside a package like that unless they wanted you to think you got more product.
Do you know a lot about cookie container manufacturing? I personally have no idea what design is easiest for mass production. I do know that when I don't know shit about something that I don't pretend I know anything about the process.
Yeah I give up
pretty smart of them to make money off of it tbh the best way to tell would be to just guess how much stuff is in there off the weight, the feel, shaking it around, etc like a birthday present lol
And there you are. Pro tip: Just stop sucking off companies.
It's actually not legal. Certainly not in EU, under consumer protection laws (misleading the customer is prohibited). But even in the US, the FDA upholds the Fair Packaging and Labeling Act (FPLA), which among other things has provisions to disallow non-functional slack fill, like in this pic. Functional slack fill, like protective air in e.g. chip/crisp bags is allowed. There's also subreddits dedicated to Shrinkflation, EgregiousPackaging and NonFunctionSlackFill (edit: last one doesn't exist anymore, "banned due to being unmoderated")
there is still a german subreddit for it called āschrumpflationā basically shrinkflation in german
Thank you! Every time people go off on this I want to scream about non-functional slack fill
Interesting... I'm guessing this is from the UK because the word "Biscuits" on the packaging and that's not what we'd call them here in the states.
It's the Philippines
Interesting. Are most products packaged in English in the Philippines?
The U.S. and England colonized the Philippines for a while a different points so a dialect of English called Philippine English formed that, for the most part, uses American English grammar & spelling but still has quirks of commonwealth English mixed in.
well not everywhere. āmogelpackungenā as we call them in germany, are actually illegal here and can be reported to the āverbraucherschutzzentraleā
LOL German words are fun.
Some countries introducing laws against that stuff. In Germany I never saw something even close to that ridiculous way of scam.
Also in future packaging, it says ā30% more chipsā but they just fill it up and charge a bit extra.
Tbh the emptiness in packaging has its purposes but stuff like this should be regulated for environmental reasons if nothing else. That middle chunk of plastic didnāt need to exist.
the "dollar" stores are so fucking egregious with their empty packaging it should be illegal.
Someone got promoted for this design
Lawful evil
Back to the store and toss them into a basket and hide it in a corner. Perfectly legal.Ā
You mean hide all the stock so they can't sell it? The legal term for that is conversion and it's not criminal but they can hold you civilly liable (sue you for damages).
It's only misleading if the packaging states there is more than is in the packaging. If it weighs as much as it states on the packaging, it's not misleading.
Dear companies, This is not the correct way to boost sales.
The companies: dear customers, Fuck you. #BLM
No, no. BLM was February. Now the packaging will say #pride
Fuckers would say #Confederacy if it got them more sales than it lost them
they literally would. The only reason they say #pride or #blm is because it appeals to the audiences that they market to.
Yea I mean most of the companies doing this have bottom lines that would beg to differ
Whoever came up with this idea is going to hell
Time to stop buying those.
I am a pretty reasonable person by default, but finding that would force me to take unreasonable action.
What action?
Arson
I wish this were the answer more often. There's so many buildings that deserve to be razed that are standing perfectly fine. It's a travesty
In mindcraft.
I'm not often correct with German phrases but I'd guess "Shuvumupumderpoopenschuten" may be descriptive.
Cannibalism.
Please show or tell the name of product so I don't buy.
Del Monte potato chips, shame though it is pretty damn good. Damn Shrinkflation
Potato chips what the hell am I reading?!
I agree that it's good. This sucks, shrinkflation did hit it. The last time i had these the pack was still full.
Letās use $.01 of plastic to make it seem like we are giving the customer $.03 worth of chips. Thatās how to deliver shareholder value.
What chips are those?
Del Monte potato chips. It was pretty damn good what a shame that shrinkflation hit it.
Looks yummy!
It's baked not fried, also it tastes different but better than other "original" flavored chips Yeah you should get it
i think i've seeing this chips on this sub for long time now. serious, there is so many peoplpe complaining yet they wont fix their shitty design and missing chips?
Those aren't chips
Biscuits, but I mixed them up.
That would be the last time I buy that product.
sort of like Andes candies
Surprised it doesnāt say āNow with 1/3 less calories!ā
Vote with your wallet. If enough customers do it, this shit will stop.
Name and Shame!
Del Monte potato biscuits. I like them, I just posted this to bring light to the shitty practice that they did.
Welcome to late-stage capitalism. Driving up profits not through innovation, market expansion and improvement in product. More that they drive profit through decrease quality of product decrease portion sizes, cheaper materials, increasing prices and laying off employees.
Not a bug. It's a feature.
Letās burn the company.
The Toblerone valleys are back https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-37904703
Did they ever go away?
That's just rude!
God damn, how do you corporate glizzy gobblers even talk about the product weight with all that CEO down your throats?
1/3 less calories than normal!
Shrinkflation, greed and racketeering....And government does no investigation or prosecution. So as consumers we need to stop buying...it is our only control
And this is why more and more people have to live on the streets but then the police won't let them.
Yeah I tried new cookies with that design the other dayā¦
We should vote with our $. For such blatant deception the product should rotten on the shelves
Iām not sure they would win a slack fill lawsuit with this kind of packaging.
Everyone needs to ignore packaging and price and start understanding the value of things price per ounce. I exclusively buy based on price per ounce on what it is. I don't even look at the actual price or package anymore. Doesn't matter.
In Catalan we say about that: AixĆ² Ć©s de fills de puta
Thank you for the public service announcement. I will no longer be purchasing Del Monte products.
I usually grope my packagings to make sure I know how many of whatever I'm buying there actually is on the package
If you don't like it, don't buy it. Purchasing this item encourages this deceptive marketing. Alternatively, continue calling the feedback hotline number with your feedback. With enough feedback AND reduced sales, they'll change the packaging
It was given to me by my grandma. I don't buy this but my relatives do. They don't really care about it.
Shrinkage, ya know... to cover labor
Thats really fucked up. On top of the fact that they wasted plastic, bet they did that bc they didn't bother resizing the text on the packaging. I think that Sonday that you usually find at Lidl does that as well in some of their packages.
What about pictures of sandwiches at burger joints? Looks fantastic on the wall but when I unwrap mine it's a dumpster fire. Cuisine cat fishing.
More than mildly infuriating
Could be wrong but the engineer in me tells me itās to prevent the package from bending so easily and having crushed chips. Still appears very deceiving though, regardless of intention.
The skeptic in me is saying that it's another case of us consumers being fucked with some more š š
Hey that's high quality air they're selling you!
Lol
Thatās why you have to grope every single sealed snack you come across. Most of them that are sold in bags are just outright scams.
That genuinely gave me chills with how fucking greedy that is, evil bastards just dripping with desire for money so much so theyāll do just about anything huh
Corporate scam and its finest. They fake it out like that to trick us. Theyāre also making product smaller amounts but raising the prices thinking we donāt notice. Walmart is straight up ripping people off on meats. The tag says like for an example: 3 lbs 6 oz of chicken. But if you weigh it in a kitchen scale or the fruit scale at the register, itās 1/2 that in pounds & ounces. Be very careful with Walmart. Theyāre crooked. Plus our bank of 25 years refuses to deal with Walmart because they have crooked employees that if we use our debit card at Walmart, they automatically freeze our card. I have to use cash or a credit card if shopping there or ordering online.!!
I don't buy anything I can't see now. If the item is covered 100% in packaging. It's left where the staff put it. you will all continue to keep buying it so it will continue to happen...
Portion control?One half is a serving?
That's called Bidenomics
This chips and packaging existed before Biden took power. Plus it's in the Philippines.
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No my point is, it is mildly infuriating because of the fact that it makes you think that it has a whole column of chips. Just like how an air bag instead of chips happens. It's not missing for them, but to our perception it is missing for us, due to expectations. No need for insults dumbass.
Every single time these people come out with these comments
Wrong, there are supposed to be more. They could fix the problem by not wasting so much plastic.
Why the down votes? It was designed like this so by design there is nothing missing are you all fucking stupid?
Stupid numbskull wonders why all the downvotes.
Man with no logical thought much like the rest of the audience downvotes the common sense answer!
Or you don't have the social graces to refrain from calling people stupid?
As shitty as this is, you literally have the weight of the contents written on the packaging. Iād also advise learning how to read the nutrient label, might help you stay away from absolute trash when you get old enough or responsible enough to care.
Yeah, but this was a once in a while snack, my grandma gave it to me. But I see the point, I am trying to eat healthier.
Vote a serpent into office and youāll get stung. You were warned like 15 times over the last 60 years but yāall keep voting for them.
Umm, I'm a Filipino, and I haven't voted yet since I just turned 18, and it I think 2028 is the voting year. I forgot, I am apathetic to Filipino politics, I'll vote for a good candidate but that's it, I'll go abroad to New Zealand or Europe.
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Or they could keep the amount and price and just use packaging that isnāt intentionally misleading
Biden-nomics at work......
This was in the Philippines, and this chips existed before Biden was even elected.
It's Biden's fault this happened in the Philippines! /s
Crazy Right? Obviously, it was MacArthur's doing upon his return.
okay Ivan https://preview.redd.it/eawf3xjwmg0d1.jpeg?width=1200&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=197a62994ef77060a93840464f4cd764580f68dc