[mythrwy]

I was at the store today looking at packages and picking them up to see weight. Most of them could have held much more product.

I felt like (in some cases at least) it was deceptive implying the quantity of product was larger. The deception is a bit of a problem but the larger problem is "do we need that much wasteful packaging?". It's really environmentally unfriendly between useless production and disposal.

I personally don't care for bulk bins and cloth shopping bags, but this is a bit out of control.

Look at how much stuff you throw away each week. Maybe we could tax packaging somehow and make it more efficient?

[loonster]

Just require everything to be sold using a preferred number for volume/mass. Some countries have these laws already.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preferred_number

[greedo]

I also notice how traditional grocery stores have embraced some aspects of Costco/Sams warehouse stores by touting larger size bags/boxes of food. For example, at my grocery store, Barilla Spaghetti noodles are $1.28/lb in the 1lb box. But they prominently display a 2lb box for $3.12. Same with Lays Potato Chips, almost 25% more for the same weight when you compare the "Family Size" bag with the next size down.

I think the beancounters have realized we've all been so brainwashed to by huge packages that they've adjusted the pricing to compensate and take away any price savings

[metiscus]

So customers usually cue off of visuals before written text and weight. Companies for this reason and tooling changes being expensive are more prone to shrink contents before raising prices or changing packaging.

[clifdweller]

it's suprising how far they take this. Kudos used to be size of full candybars in early 90s. By the time they were gone they never once retooled their boxes so 3 boxes of them could fit into one box.

[ac29]

The places I usually shop have usually have a price / volume calculation printed, if you find yourself spending too long deciding what to buy like I do.

[jdeibele]

Yes, but there are times where basically the same item will be priced seemingly randomly by ounce, by pound, and sometimes even by count (how many items in the bag or box).

Is $.33/oz a better deal than $5/pound? How about $.31/oz?