Have you Noticed
By nanknibbs
@nanknibbs (31)
March 4, 2012 9:56am CST
Have you noticed that large eggs are smaller. They look what medium used to be. And the toilet paper roll is narrower. Things are getting smaller as we pay more for them. A pound used to be 16 oz. not a pound of coffee is 10 oz. A gallon of gas is still a gallon, just cost more.
4 responses
@purplealabaster (22094)
• United States
4 Mar 12
Actually, a pound is still sixteen ounces ... that does not change.
I do understand what you are talking about, though. They are packaging things in smaller quantities but charging you the same or just a little bit more to make you think that you are still getting the same amount for your money. For example, a package of bacon used to be a pound, but now a package is only twelve ounces. It is a marketing trick that works when people do not pay attention to the amounts listed on the packages.
I do understand what you are talking about, though. They are packaging things in smaller quantities but charging you the same or just a little bit more to make you think that you are still getting the same amount for your money. For example, a package of bacon used to be a pound, but now a package is only twelve ounces. It is a marketing trick that works when people do not pay attention to the amounts listed on the packages.
@mysdianait (66009)
• Italy
4 Mar 12
I suppose that as time passes many things will become smaller than we were used to in the past
@mysdianait (66009)
• Italy
6 Mar 12
PA maybe they become smaller because as we age our eyesight becomes impaired
@purplealabaster (22094)
• United States
7 Mar 12
Hmmm ... I am not that old and my eyesight is not impaired ... well, not much anyway ... so I do not think that is the case. Still, just to test your theory, perhaps we should make better use of all our senses and start feeling our way around just to make sure that everything is the proper size and in the right spots.
@megamatt (14292)
• United States
6 Mar 12
Oh believe me, I have noticed. They have been downsizing everything lately. I mean everything. Even if you don’t eat chips, just go to the score and look at a bag of chips and feel how much air is in it. It is over half of the bag. It is rather horrifying. And a gallon of milk does seem to be just slightly smaller than a gallon. Not as much to where the average person would notice but they have been downsizing in subtle ways.
It is all about downsizing and it is happening so gradually that most people will never notice. Well except people like me, who take a disturbing amount of attention to these sort of things. Everything is going down in quantity and perhaps quality as well and up in price. Welcome to the world in 2012.
@louievill (28851)
• Philippines
4 Mar 12
I think that's one way business people do to prevent an alarm a price increase does, they could do it gradually and at times I think sneakily 
and at the same time not lose patronage or following and to be fair they stay in business. Also it might also be that some things are not really standardized like large egg, medium etc....Gasoline is different, it's standard so a gallon is a gallon and the price is what all the people are looking at, see how it causes alarm and sometimes panic whenever it goes up
and at the same time not lose patronage or following and to be fair they stay in business. Also it might also be that some things are not really standardized like large egg, medium etc....Gasoline is different, it's standard so a gallon is a gallon and the price is what all the people are looking at, see how it causes alarm and sometimes panic whenever it goes up 