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But seriously, that new shape is fucking ridiculous. It's like strategically designed to make the consumer feel ripped off. There are plenty of tricks to make a thing appear bigger in the package than it really is without the consumer noticing. This is the exact opposite of that. It would be like a if I sold you hourglass shaped mattress.

God I'm effort posting about fucking Toblerones. Kill me.
 
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Strelok said:
But seriously, that new shape is fucking ridiculous. It's like strategically designed to make the consumer feel ripped off. There are plenty of tricks to make a thing appear bigger in the package than it really is without the consumer noticing. This is the exact opposite of that. It would be like a if I sold you hourglass shaped mattress.

God I'm effort posting about fucking Toblerones. Kill me.
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I don't understand why they didn't just make it smaller, or make it shorter. People wouldn't have even noticed that, or if they did, wouldn't have been flat out insulted by it. They really couldn't have rubbed it in harder that they were screwing you without putting le happy merchant on the box.
 
"Toblerones Salt" or "First World Problems: The Salt"

(the latter can apply to many a salt)
 
For a long time, (back in the mid 20th Century I believe) Hershey's used to change the size of their bar so that it would always stay the same unit cost for the end consumer. They'd make it bigger when ingredients got cheap, and make it small when they were expensive, but, you always paid the same amount. The idea was you'd know that if you had, say, a nickel, you could afford it.

This idea could've worked if the presentation had been better, but as others have pointed out, when you leave big GAPS that leave the consumer no doubt they're buying a substantial volume of air in their food product, well, how can you not expect a little anger?

Don't they TEACH the marketing people this stuff anymore?
 
I like Toblerone, and whilst it's annoying that they've reduced how much there is of it, the amount of things that people are using to blame the change on is hilarious.

It's not like the people in charge were like 'Fuck, Trump got elected/Brexit happened/*insert ree target here*, let's change the shape whilst everyone is distracted.
 
Cadburys did a similar thing here in the UK way before Brexit, their milk chocolate bars now have rounded, bubble-shaped blocks rather than rectangles and so there is less chocolate. Their chocolate tastes watered-down now, too.

In fact, I've noticed a bunch of chocolate bars have been shrinking for decades. Anyone remember how big Wagon Wheels used to be?

Edit: lol, Kiwi Farm's autocorrect :D I was left thinking for a few seconds why the fuck I wrote "tard cum" instead of m_i_l_k
 
Why would they make a decision like this in November last year? It would have made sense around 2013-14 because the price of cocoa was at a high but it crashed around the middle of last year. So either Toblerone is slow to respond to the market or they're a bunch of Cocosteins.
 
They could've hollowed out the interiors (or at least more air inside) instead of openly ripping people off.
 
DuskEngine said:
Why would they make a decision like this in November last year? It would have made sense around 2013-14 because the price of cocoa was at a high but it crashed around the middle of last year. So either Toblerone is slow to respond to the market or they're a bunch of Cocosteins.
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Even still they did it on the best possible opportunity to piss off these fat crybabies.
 
Toblerbones remind me of these:
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Also this thread is reminding me that it has been a year since I raided a chocolate aisle in a Swiss supermarket.
 
dunbrine47 said:
Toblerbones remind me of these:
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Also this thread is reminding me that it has been a year since I raided a chocolate aisle in a Swiss supermarket.
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Migros own brand chocolate is pretty good tbh

Migros as a supermarket is shite though, fuck off for putting all the alcohol in Denner
 
I had a kickass high school geometry teacher who once brought a bunch of these to class and if we could correctly calculate the volume of the triangular box we could have one.

This makes me sad. It looks like a goddamned rack for pool cues now. :c
 
I don't quite know what to think right now. On one hand, I rarely buy the overpriced bastards. But on the other hand, that redesign makes me want to shit in disgust.
 
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