Shame on you Tropicana Juice Company

[Got Duc]

So today I went out and got a BACON, Egg and cheese on a roll. I also purchased a container of Tropicana Ruby Red Grapefruit juice.

I normally don't have breakfast but I felt like it today.

When I opened the container of juice (which by the way is the wax covered paper cartain normally 16 ounces) I looked inside. It did not look right. I looked in again and it looked like there was less juice in it. I then looked on the side of the container where the ounces normally are and there was no amount. I had to look in the serving size area of the continaer to find out that it was only 14 Fl ounces and not the normal 16 Fl ounces as it had been in the past.

I guess this was a part of the recession and it's way to make up the lost revenue by giving the customer less for the same price as they paid before.

[ducpainter]

They're not the only company doing it.

[1KDS]

They're not the only company doing it.

+1, my friend is a dairy dept. manager at a grocery store.  He said a lot of the packaged cheese etc. is a couple ounces smaller at the same price rather than upping the price.

[He Man]

atleast they didnt water it down?

[bluemoco]

We've seen this many times before.  Cereal companies did this a few years ago - made the boxes smaller (thinner, actually) so there was less product inside.  Same price, of course.   

[Mad Duc]

Tons of examples here:
http://consumerist.com/cgi-bin/mt/mt-search.cgi?IncludeBlogs=1&limit=20&search=shrink+ray

[Oldfisti]

Check your beloved # of  , it's most likely a 12oz pkg.

[redxblack]

old, and classic:

Jimmy Dean Sausage Complaint with Storyboard!

edit: the end of the clip's audio = not work safe

[The Bacon Junkie]

^^^^

[He Man]

freakazoid!~~!!

[JEFF_H]

That extra space in the top of the packaging is so you can top it off with vodka, obviously.

[mstevens]

This Thanksgiving I noticed all the bags of fresh cranberries had 12oz  regardless of brand. This not only means they're selling you less for the same price, but that if you need a pound for a particular recipe you now have to buy two bags and figure out what to do with the leftover half-pound.

[lwszabo]

Its because we are to fat

[mitt]

That extra space in the top of the packaging is so you can top it off with vodka, obviously.

     the kids love it that way


mitt

[Slide Panda]

I first noticed this a few years back with dannon yogurts. They got smaller... same price. Bryers ice cream recently went from their stright sided 1/2 gal containters to something that tapers, and is less than 1/2 gal... and of course same same price. Oj is the same way... booo on all of em.