Today I had a couple of cookies after lunch and just by chance, I had a close look at the packaging. At first glance this cookie package looked to be holding 18 cookies. Upon closer examination, it turns out that in fact, there were only 16 cookies.
You can see how they deliberately made the two middle indentations smaller so they could only hold two cookies stacked on each other whereas the end indentations can hold a stack of three.
Clearly, this design was done to deliberately deceive consumers into believing they were getting more.
They have done the same thing with bacon. It used to be standard that bacon was sold by the pound. Now, they package it in 375 gram packages. That’s only .83 of a pound.
Remember back in the early 70’s when Canada switched to the metric system. Gas then started to be sold by the litre instead of gallon. People back then lost track of what they were really getting for their buck.
Then they started selling butter tarts in packages of ten instead of the traditional dozen. Same with donuts.
What’s next. 10 eggs in a carton?
Geez!
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