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- Sep 7, 2019
that's the way they've been doing it for decades, but usually they at least go through the effort to "redesign" the package to mask it.Not even the store brands are that much less expensive anymore. They're still a bit cheaper, but not by nearly as much as they were five years ago. And their prices are still creeping up to keep pace with the name brands too. I've noticed more of that "slight-of-hand" trickery lately too where the price stays the same, the package stays the same size, but the product volume/weight goes down just a wee bit (i.e. raising the price by selling you less for the same price).
truth is most shoppers are retards, they only ever look at the price (and even then they get it wrong if the product is set up to fuck with calculations), not what they're actually buying. over here it's law to have the price per weight on the label, but even that gets fucked with - it's small as fuck to make it less noticeable, some recently started to use different measurements. usually its price/kg, sometimes price/100g for small stuff, but now you see price/500g etc..
this way people not only have to look for the small print, you now have to recalculate it half the time.