Termyn8or
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I have to disagree with the detergent opinions expressed here. What it really is is that alot of people do not get their clothes dirty enough. If you wear a pair of jeans to work for eight hours and change when you get home, how many times did you fart ? Just how much dirt does this wonder detergent have to remove anyway ? Unless you work on cars or something, you are not putting it to the test. Change clothes twice a day and you really would only have to use ½ as much. How many people do that ?
Now let's move on. Coffee. I don't drink it anymore but if you have been watching the cans for a while, you will notice that the proverbial five pound can is nowhere near five pounds. Are people going to say that the coffee is that much stronger ? Bullshit. Remember I did drink it in the past, and I can't stand the "dishwater" coffee. If I wanted water I would drink water, same with tea. I was never an avid tea drinker but I wonder if something similar has happened there. "Our tea bags are smaller to save trees, because our tea is now stronger, but please steep longer if you want a darker tea". Bull fucking shit !
There are a couple of things, some of them necessities that do not seem to suffer from the shrinking can. Gasoline, a gallon is still a gallon. My twelve ounce beer is still twelve ounces. Produce and other products sold by the pound are still a pound.
I too have been hip to unit pricing for a long time, and the products with which they try to get over people are the ones they figure people will not notice. But look at what else they do, look at the price of gas, not the dollar amount, at the end. In the US it always ends up with a nine tenths at the end. This is because when you see three seventy eight nine, you don't realize that it is really three seventy nine. Let's put it this way, if you take thirty gallons to fill your tank, that is three cents off the whole load. In fact it seems almost every price in this country ends in 99.
By all means, get a job as a mechanic and take a week's worth of work clothes and throw them in an extra large capacity washing machine and use a ¼ cup of detergent. Try following instructions to make a pot of coffee, and to me at least, if you can see through the pot that is not coffee.
But then the consumer protection zealots here have made it so we can be sure of our TV screen size. Things have changed now, but Sonys that were called twenty seven inch here are called twenty nine elsewhere. They are very strict about that.
Things sold by weight - the deli weighs it and you buy it. Been going on for years, but have a look at the prepackaged meats. Your package of bacon, hot dogs, just about anything. Look how snack foods have gotten smaller, including that which is peddled as real food by fast food places.
I eat about no fast food now, but one of my last haunts was Arby's. Their roast beef was not poisonous, and they had kickass fish and chicken sandwiches. I mean huge. Beat Burger King by a mile. Very tasty as well. But now they aren't much bigger than a cheap sandwich. But they just don't make them that way anymore.
Hey, folks in here in the forties, do you remember a commecial a very long time ago on TV, a guy opens up a newspaper and it splits, a couple of other things like that, and they are singing "Things seem to be getting thinnner, so much thinner all the time" ?
And now I remember another one about the first 100 cigarettes. Little did people realize that they were thinner. Actuallt recently I bought a pack of Camel wides and know what ? They are shorter.
I guess in the end you ain't gettin' nuthin for nothin. But now you get less for somethin'.
T
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Consumers are getting LESS, as prices go up! - 
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