turnkey4099
Elite Member
Ustacould find most everything in packages of uniform unit sizes, quarts, gallons, pounds, etc.
Then they started half units, pints instead of quarts. Strawberries and blueberries were in quarts or pints. Now I see blueberries in 6 ounce packages. Corn was always priced by the dozen. Then came half dozens. Now I see it priced by the ear. Bananas, peaches oranges and apples are priced individually in some places.
Canned and jarred groceries are in 30 ounce units instead of 32, or 15 ounce instead of 16. Soups are 10-3/4 ounces. Really?
Eggs in half dozens?
Some cheeses are in 6 ounce packages or smaller. I've seen 4 ounce packages.
I'm sure y'all can come up with a whole lot more examples.
The one I remember is the sudden, unannounced AFAIK the increase in the size of a paper towel, from a square sheet to a rectangle but the price of the roll remained the same. Brilliant, get the consumer to use a bigger sheet and we sell more the same size roll but it only lasts 2/3 as long.
I mentioned it on several forums. My solution was to cut every sheet in half rsulting in my getting about 1/8 more use out of each roll = less money per sheet....Then they came up with the "choice", perforated the retangular sheet in half also. At least it saves me the time to cut full sheets now.