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This pattern with happening with tools. Milwaukee released a impact driver and it received great reviews, they were practically indestructible. They just released a revision of it, same model number and packaging but completely changed the inside and now you can't even change a set of tires with one before it dies.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=iusVoa21daQ

And in fact, some tech reviewers recently declared (as recalled in a submission in this pages) that it is becoming useless to review products that may suddenly be shipped with a dramatic drop in their quality, while keeping the same name.

It should be illegal to change a product without changing the model number or at least add a revision number.

BJ Novak was onto Cadbury pulling this same stunt 15 years ago - no ability to blame COVID.

https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=494133268428617

Wouldn’t this be a first in, first out approach if you’re consuming the oldest item on the shelf whenever you need it?

That’s what they mean I think. Standard procedure at stores and businesses and lets you keep a lot in stock.

Yeah sorry, that's what I meant. It was late at work and I was tired. Thankfully most people got what I really meant

> labelled 50g less than a bag I had purchased a few months ago. It wasn't the case that there were less nuts in the bag.

50g less nuts without less nuts in the bag? You mean they went to less dense nuts?

I think they meant that the bag didn’t seem “emptier” so they shrunk the bag to make it seem just as full.

Like the half gallon jugs that are now 58 ounces or whatever.

But that's not what "less nuts" means. The same mass of nuts... Will be the same mass. That's how mass works, unless like the previous commenter mentioned the nuts are truly less dense. I was also confused by the phrasing the OP used

As far as I'm aware, half gallon isn't 58 ounces so that's not what that container is. You can't just say that there is a new conversion factor

That’s the point - they have jugs that look like the half gallon ones did but they’re smaller (and labeled as such).

Minute Maid Orange Juice, Fruit Juice Drink, 59 fl oz

https://www.walmart.com/ip/22176379

That same look used to be half a gallon.

Half gallon is not a look or particular container design. It is a measurement of fluid volume

I see the same tetrapack design used for quarts, do you call those "half gallon" as well?

I don't mind smaller sizes. In fact, I prefer them, because I usually eat the entire package regardless of its size.

Of course, I do mind skimpflation, i.e., the reduction in quality.

I do mind keeping the price the same or higher.

That's out of the control of food producers. The central banks create more money every year so everyone else just has to deal with it. It's widely agreed on that a small amount of inflation is good for society. Just means prices go up slightly every year but hopefully your wages get bumped in sync.

> Make an awesome product, get people hooked on it, and then slowly ratchet back the value to reap the gains. And of course hope people don't notice.

It's almost as though the whole business world uses the same tactics as VC backed tech startups...