Comments | valacosa: The cheese recession

valacosa

The cheese recession

May 11, 2009 23:19

I noticed Cracker Barrel is on sale at Zehrs this week, so I stocked up again.

But, in the flyer, it said "500g bars". "That can't be right," I thought to myself. "It's probably a typo, supposed to be 200g bars or something."

The flyer was correct. The large bars of cheese are now 500 grams. Funny, the cheese bars from the last sale (still in my ( Read more... )

food, marketing

Comments 9

carnielu May 12 2009, 11:34:36 UTC

They used to be 2lbs (908g) and have shrunk to 500g. And yes the price has virtually stayed the same.

valacosa May 12 2009, 11:36:53 UTC

Heh. Black Diamond has reintroduced the 908g bars as "Family Size!"

They're more expensive, of course.

timmyson May 12 2009, 13:35:47 UTC

I remember 740g for sure.

My mother says this was promised against when the metric system was introduced: all products were supposed to have standard weights, and new sizes would have to be approved by the government. My father was working at Dad's or McCormick's (when they were into cookies) and can recall the furor there was in the industry over government suits showing up and telling them there would be regulation of package sizes.

I think it's better that they didn't, it would have been a massive government institution, I think, but it would have been nice. Ah, the Trudeau years.

valacosa May 13 2009, 12:08:45 UTC

I'm not sure how it'd be any more of a massive government institution than the recently introduced "made in Canada" laws.

markster3000 May 13 2009, 15:26:12 UTC

Oh, the good old anti-metric days.

Of course, even if we were still in Imperial, this would still happen. It's just as easy to change a package from 32oz to 30oz. I imagine this happens in the States all the time.

markster3000 May 12 2009, 18:28:32 UTC

I really thought that those were still 600g.

I saw a hilarious bag of chips at Zhers. There was no way that it contained the amount it claimed. It was a bag of air with a about an inch deep layer of chips at the bottom.

chemical_lover May 12 2009, 19:19:58 UTC

You should have sent it in with a complaint and gotten free stuff. If the weight on the package is wrong, and it isn't a packaging mistake the company can get in serious trouble for mis-advertising.

But then did you really want free chips?

janusglance May 13 2009, 11:02:53 UTC

This reminds me of a bit from Top Gear. No, really. I think I mentioned it to you before. And now, because I am bored, you will have to read it ( ... )

valacosa May 13 2009, 11:54:50 UTC

You made me laugh two or three times with that exchange. (I agree with James.)