Thursday, January 31, 2013

Less Cadbury Creme Eggs

Cadbury chocolate creme eggs are a seasonal product so they almost got away with this one. Luckyly someone went on Conan and pointed out the truth.


Price: Same
Quantity: ~20% smaller size

Less Pringles Potato Chips

Pringles chips a few years back got a longer tub, but not to many people noticed that the tubs were containing less chips. Both the overall size and density of the chip is less. You did not used to be able to shine a light through the chip but now you can. Here is a video of someone else that noticed that the size has been shrunk as well.
Personally I used to love them but the smaller, thinner size has actually made the taste pretty bland. Not much potato left in there to enjoy. You are just getting artificial flavouring and crunch now. 

Price: Same
Quantity: Longer tubs, smaller and thinner chips

Less Orbits Sugarfree Gum

Orbit sugar-free gum, now has a convenient "finger grip" at the cost of 1 gum. 


Price: Same
Quantity Drop: 24 to 23 pieces of gum

Less is NOT More

I think it started for me when there was a commercial on the TV, I think it was for mutual funds. It was about how a VP of a pickle company was a genius for removing one pickle from each jar to save the company money. My take on that was, sure the stock price will go up for a bit but people will get annoyed that they are paying for less and will change to a different company. It seems that the VPs of many companies saw that ad and took the face value to heart. Companies are giving less and less all the time but charging the same or more.

This site is not to complain, it seems to be a fact of life, I am just creating this site to point out which companies don't care about you and leave the rest for you to decide what to do about it. Should you change loyalty to another company because they are not being loyal to you? Should you contact the company telling them to stop? Should you just be sad and take it because they still make a good product, just less of it? It's up to you.