Size Does Not Matter
Oh really?!
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Some detergent bottles are getting smaller, have you noticed? Each time that I go into our favorite Big W or Wally World, as you guys call it, the detergent bottles are smaller and flatter! Yet I pay the same price! What is up with that?
In fact, for a while now most of the items we buy have gotten a makeover. They are packaged in smaller containers but they still cost the same! And although they are in smaller containers, the contents themselves are even smaller than the packaging so we get socked both ways!
I just read an article that now all the manufacturers who make detergents are going to make their containers smaller than what they are now, and one thing will remain the same, the price! Uh?
Do you know the reason why they are going to do this? Because of Wal Mart! The giant retailer wants the smaller packaging so that they can fit more on their shelves! Of all the #@@%&*%$#! I tell you, if there’s proof that I should not shop there anymore, there it is right there! I’ve been complaining about shopping there lately, although I do it for the convenience and for the prices, going there lately have been very annoying! What with them sneakily raising the cost of everything they sell on a daily basis, lack of supplies and lack of staff! And you know one of the biggest scam about them going small, “they are doing it for the environment!†What a crock!
According to the article:
[quote]â€Retailers are pushing the big shrink in detergent bottles because when their shelves are full with smaller bottles, they lose fewer sales to products being out of stock and less employee time is spent replenishing product. Retailers also save on transportation costs because more of the smaller bottles can fit on a truck. Meanwhile, manufacturers, which over the past two years have been hit hard by high oil prices, save on the petroleum-based plastic packaging as well as the costs of shipping to retailersâ€[quote]
So its not just Wally World, it’s all retailers! So they expect us shoppers to swallow this crap? Wow, we must be so impressionable and such suckers! They have no respect for their consumers do they not? It’s bad enough that snacks and other food items have undergone drastic shrinking, now they are doing it where we need it the most! We certainly do have to launder our clothing!
I know, some people continue to buy regardless, what choice do we have if we want the item? I tell you what choice, avoid shopping at some places and if you do, avoid buying some of the things that are shrinking! I know, easily said than done, but I do not buy potato chips in bags anymore. If I do because my son likes it, I buy the other types with the covers once in a while! As for shopping at Wally World, I am not visiting there as often as I used to. I have got to take it slowly, because I cannot go into immediate denial, I would begin to have withdrawal symptoms!
Here is a link to the article! Link
What, you thought I was going to talk about something else?! [grins – gotcha!]
! Now Joe, that's a mighty fine idea!