Vince68 wrote:
Thats nothing new, it has been going on for quite awhile now. When was the last time you bought ice cream that contained a full half gallon of ice cream? There is at least one brand around here, Stewart's Ice Cream Shoppe for one, that does, but all the major brands like Breyers only contain 1.5 quarts of ice cream. They not only put less product in the package, but they hit you with a double whammy by raising the prices as well.
Your darn lucky if you are getting 14 ounces of coffee in a can. I bought 3 cans of coffee which were on "sale" recently (a major brand which has been around since I was a kid) and the cans not only had 10.5 ounces of coffee (down from 11.5 ounces not all that long ago) and the sale price was more than what this brand cost a year or so ago. Opening the first can, the coffee was about 2" below the top of the can.
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We have at least one brand of ice cream in Texas that still gives you a full half-gallon for a reasonable price.
Aside from that, go to the coffee company and check their costs and expenses now vs a year ago. They are not trying to gouge anybody, nor are they being greedy. 99.9% of the time they are just trying to keep their noses above the water line. "[T]he coffee was about 2" below the top of the can" is why they stress they are selling by weight, not volume. Product settles during shipping.