SIZED DOWN QUANTITIES IN PRODUCTS
My first experience with this occurrence was when I was a kid in the 1950s. I heard that the one oz. candy bars were going to be sized down as well as the wrigley 5 stick chewing gum packets.
I remember when a can of tuna was 7 and 3/4 onces. I do not know how many sizes it kept dropping too except that last size I experienced was 6oz. Recently tuna is now in a 5 oz can. It cost the same amount of money. More so, when I was a kid, my mother made a whole meal for me out of that 7 3/4 oz can which cost 25 cents from Krasdale sold at an outfit called Great Eastern Mills in Hempstead,Long Island. I was doing fine with the 6 oz can which made me a fine meal but the 5 oz can is just not enough nor do I feel like opening up two 5 oz cans of tuna to placate my appetite, so tuna canners, screw you, I am not going to be eating that much tuna anymore until you bring back that 6 oz can which I doubt you will.
This week, Tropicana OJ, is going to reduce their half-gallon container to 59 oz. of juice in April at the same price. It's all because of the "freeze" this winter in Florida. On the carton, they use oranges from Brazil as well. So who are they fooling with their "explanation". Nobody; Tropicana, nobody. I wonder how many other growers will follow suit like Florida's Natural for example. Hell, the next thing is that gasoline companies will sell gas at 4/5 of a gallon and who knows what else.
Alot of sized down quality crappola goes on right under our noses. I think that Ocean Spray Cranberry sauce which used to be 16 oz is now 14 oz. If I have used something for years at a certain weight and quanity, I expect that quantity to be there at the store and not be tricked and deceited by sizing down. Somebody is going to size down the wrong thing one of these days that is going to effect somebody nutrionally and is going to be sued and end up in the slammer.
Folks, this is an abuse of our capitalistic society that we are so proud of and we are being held ransom by greedy deceitful corporations on their products. What do we have to now write laws on quantites and notices of quanties?
I remember when a can of tuna was 7 and 3/4 onces. I do not know how many sizes it kept dropping too except that last size I experienced was 6oz. Recently tuna is now in a 5 oz can. It cost the same amount of money. More so, when I was a kid, my mother made a whole meal for me out of that 7 3/4 oz can which cost 25 cents from Krasdale sold at an outfit called Great Eastern Mills in Hempstead,Long Island. I was doing fine with the 6 oz can which made me a fine meal but the 5 oz can is just not enough nor do I feel like opening up two 5 oz cans of tuna to placate my appetite, so tuna canners, screw you, I am not going to be eating that much tuna anymore until you bring back that 6 oz can which I doubt you will.
This week, Tropicana OJ, is going to reduce their half-gallon container to 59 oz. of juice in April at the same price. It's all because of the "freeze" this winter in Florida. On the carton, they use oranges from Brazil as well. So who are they fooling with their "explanation". Nobody; Tropicana, nobody. I wonder how many other growers will follow suit like Florida's Natural for example. Hell, the next thing is that gasoline companies will sell gas at 4/5 of a gallon and who knows what else.
Alot of sized down quality crappola goes on right under our noses. I think that Ocean Spray Cranberry sauce which used to be 16 oz is now 14 oz. If I have used something for years at a certain weight and quanity, I expect that quantity to be there at the store and not be tricked and deceited by sizing down. Somebody is going to size down the wrong thing one of these days that is going to effect somebody nutrionally and is going to be sued and end up in the slammer.
Folks, this is an abuse of our capitalistic society that we are so proud of and we are being held ransom by greedy deceitful corporations on their products. What do we have to now write laws on quantites and notices of quanties?
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