TIL: Skippy peanut butter jars were redesigned to include a dimple at the bottom of the jar. This made it hard for people to see they were paying the same for a reduced amount of peanut butter.

www.arkansasonline.com

TIL: Skippy peanut butter jars were redesigned to include a dimple at the bottom of the jar. This made it hard for people to see they were paying the same for a reduced amount of peanut butter.

www.arkansasonline.com

MaiionPostBot@chat.maiion.comB to

c/TodayILearned@chat.maiion.comEnglish · 1 year ago

Shoppers getting less, paying the same price

www.arkansasonline.com

Across the supermarket, manufacturers are trimming packages, nipping half an ounce off that bar of soap, narrowing the width of toilet paper and shrinking the size of ice cream containers. Prices, however, remain about the same.

You must log in or register to comment.

Chat

c/TodayILearned@chat.maiion.com

todayilearned@chat.maiion.com

Create a post

You are not logged in. However you can subscribe from another Fediverse account, for example Lemmy or Mastodon. To do this, paste the following into the search field of your instance: !todayilearned@chat.maiion.com

Have you learned something new today? Share it here and gain incite from others!

Please Observe Instance Rules:

Do not violate any laws, third-party rights, and/or proprietary rights.
Do not harass others, be abusive, threatening, and/or harmful.
Do not be needlessly defamatory and/or intentionally misleading.
Do not upload without marking obscene and/or sensitive content as such.
Do not promote racism, bigotry, hatred, harm, and violence of any kind.

Visibility: Public

This community can be federated to other instances and be posted/commented in by their users.

2 users / day
2 users / week
2 users / month
1 user / 6 months
0 local subscribers
0 subscribers
47 Posts
1 Comment
Modlog