Have you tried to buy a five-pound bag of sugar lately?
Or a quart jar of mayonnaise?
Then there's the matter of graham crackers. Don't get me started.
Oh, you can buy the package of sugar that sort of looks like the 5-pound bag you've been for buying your whole life--and your mother before you--but no such thing exists any more. Not even the off brands make a 5-pound bag. It's four pounds now . . . at the same price, or higher, actually.
And the jar of mayo looks about the same as it used to, except the bottom isn't flat. Not by a long shot. And it's a 30-ounce jar now. And if you buy the name brand, Best Foods, you'll pay about $3.50 for a jar.
But I am started on the graham crackers. I have a recipe that calls for 12 graham crackers, which used to be what you found in one of the packs inside the box. Handy. Then one day, the inner pack held 11 graham crackers. Now it's down to 9. And it's not cheap.
How do they do it? Isn't it expensive to keep redesigning and re-manufacturing packages? Oh, yeah, that's right. It is. And guess who pays for it.
2 comments:
That's why us old folks have to die off - so there's nobody left who remembers . .
No dying off, please!
But don't even get Jeremy started on ice cream container sizes.
I noticed the four-pound bags of sugar a few weeks ago and thought it was the weirdest thing. Who ever heard of a four-pound bag of sugar!?
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