That kinda makes me glad I gave up pop earlier this year.
I find this annoying
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Yeah, Pepsis are still in 12 pks and 24 pks here, but the ice cream has been reduced in size but sell for the same price the half gallons used to be. I refuse to buy the name brands anymore, and just get the store brand ones which are larger and cheaper and generally taste just as good.
I don't drink soda or eat ice cream, so I'm safe from all this.
I couldn't afford them anyway after I get done paying for my smokes and booze.
I remember the first time I went to Safeway to buy just a SIX pack of Pepsi and found that the six packs only come in EIGHT OUNCE CANS.
Uggh...
8 ounce cans would REALLY piss me off.
I hope they don't start making all cans 8 ounces now.
To be fair, they started the 8 oz. can six packs like nine years ago. I wouldn't worry too much about the standard size being reduced any time soon.
This downsizing with the same price is happening all over the supermarket. Canned veggies used to be 16 oz; now they're 14.5 oz, and I expect that will decrease soon. Cereal boxes have dropped in size, but I don't know when that happened or if it's even across the board. It's even happening with stuff like dish soap. The 13 oz bottle I was able to buy a couple years ago was replaced by a 11.5 oz bottle and is now down to 10 oz.
DH and I gave up soda for tea at home to save some money.
Mallory is right -- if Pepsi gets away with this, Coke and the others will soon follow.
DH and I gave up soda for tea at home to save some money.
Mallory is right -- if Pepsi gets away with this, Coke and the others will soon follow.
But how much is in each can?
Don't make me quote Bulletproof Monk to you people...
Standard soda can size in UK is a metric measure of 330ml (about 11.2 oz)
You can buy smaller drink cans that this, I think they're 225ml but unsure, but they're only for real fruit juice soda, not for colas.
For canned food, the EU standardises can sizes/volumes (diameter=75mm, height=115mm), while the weight varies depending on the product.
Most food cans weigh in at 400-410g contents, although some of that is drainage water (canned pulses) or syrup (canned fruit). The ratio of food to water is unspecified and imprecise.
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This is more despicable than the soft drink shrinkage. There are some recipes that are formulated to use a 16 ounce can of a particular vegetable as an ingredient. shinking the size of a "standard" can is going to cause problems with those recepies tasting right and/or providing the proper serving/nutrient size.
Ouch, that's even less than American cans.
I couldn't stop drinking my favorite flavor because of this.
Coke has nothing even remotely like Dew. No one does.
For food cans, you could get the environmentalists lobbying the government to reverse package size shrinkage.
In a year, how many cans/bottles/packets of food would you get through for your RDA of 2000 kcals per day?
With the new smaller sizes, how many cans/bottles/packets will you be getting through now to maintain your 2000 kcals per day?
How much extra strain does that put on recycling, and on landfill?
These manufacturers are clearly operating anti-green policies.
In a year, how many cans/bottles/packets of food would you get through for your RDA of 2000 kcals per day?
With the new smaller sizes, how many cans/bottles/packets will you be getting through now to maintain your 2000 kcals per day?
How much extra strain does that put on recycling, and on landfill?
These manufacturers are clearly operating anti-green policies.
If enough consumers purchase the brands that haven't taken the reduced container option, the size cutters will get the message.
The same goes for the outrageous prices on the name brand sodas (pop). If sales of the store brand drinks rise while the name brands, at nearly twice the price, sit on the shelf the name brands will feel the pressure to be more reasonable.
The same goes for the outrageous prices on the name brand sodas (pop). If sales of the store brand drinks rise while the name brands, at nearly twice the price, sit on the shelf the name brands will feel the pressure to be more reasonable.
Makes me glad the Pepsi points promotion is ending 12/31. I've been buying Pepsi instead of Sam's Cola because I liked using the points for Amazon mp3 downloads. I've missed my Sam's Colas. MUCH cheaper, I like the taste better, and the smaller cans are easier to find. With the Pepsis, I'd buy the 6-pack bottles and drink half per meal. With Sam's I can get the little cans and drink one per meal.
The Pepsi marketing guys really dropped the ball on this.
They should have proclaimed on the new 8-packs: "Same great taste! Same price! Now just 2/3 the calories in each case!"
They should have proclaimed on the new 8-packs: "Same great taste! Same price! Now just 2/3 the calories in each case!"
OMG...you are SO frugal, my dad would have been prouder to call you "son" than he was ME!
I probably wouldda just yanked up your shorts, threw you to the curb and taken your lunch money.
You're bitching about 8-packs? I remember when one could purchase a 6-pack of canned cola.
The problem with two litre bottles is that if you only want one class of pop you've basically wasted the rest because it will go flat in less than a day. It is definitely a lot cheaper per volume, especially when 2L bottles go on sale for under a buck.
I buy 2L bottles if I know I'll go through it, but cans the rest of the time.
Having said that I really don't drink much pop these days, just a couple times a week at most.
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