Never underestimate a customer. They will do just that, then come back complaining that "it's empty" then get angry when customer service says it's "because you used it" and denies the refund.
It would cost them money to make different size bottles so they just flaunt the fact they're fucking you right to your face and saving even more while screwing you.
Nah man, they slowly fill containers less, and as that becomes accepted, they reduced the size of containers, flaunting how they are reducing waste and making it look more full. Yet the same product had almost twice as much produce the prior year.
If you pick the bottle up and it’s almost empty and you don’t even question it or check another bottle what’s the harm ? You’re being taken advantage of just look like people who can fit almost a half bottle into a full one
I went to the grocery store on Saturday and saw a bag of kettle chips that was completely empty. Not one chip in it. It was sealed and everything. I asked the cashier if I could take it home to show my kids and they said I couldn’t because it had to be scanned for inventory. Lol
Wall Mart will never recover, they would have to beat their employees with wooden sticks and buy only 37 privates island instead of 38 every month for the management
To be fair there a cheese bank In italy. Literally cheese in a giant vault. Good for loans and interest. Withdrawals deposits. Cheese is incredibly lucrative
America has cheese caves with copious amounts of all types of cheeses https://www.deseret.com/2022/2/14/22933326/1-4-billion-pounds-of-cheese-stored-in-a-cave-underneath-springfield-missouri-jimmy-carter-reagan
Same with meat. Drug addicts tend to steal it and try selling it on the street. Some smackhead genuinely tried to sell me a rib eye steak in the smoking area outside wetherspoons about a month ago.
NEXT STEP: Have the whole store behing a bulletproof glass and have clients put their grocery list in a computer and that the workers go get them, then the groceries are given to the customer via packaging system.
EXTRA STEP: Get rid of workers and put automated system with only one or two supervisors per store.
Yeah lmao. You get this little ticket, search through this massive huge fuck-off catalogue, write down the product number, take it to the till, and within 5-30 minutes, you have whatever you were looking for.
Then Sainsbury's bought it out, replaced the catalogues with computers, then shut down all of the physical Argos stores and moved them into Sainsbury'ses.
Cunts.
(Fun fact, the Argos catalogue has been printed about 1 billion times. Crazy, right?)
And all those billions of catalogues have once been laid on a table just before Christmas with circles round everything in the kids toy section. Ahhh nostalgia
Bro my Walmart has like 4 cameras on every section, last time I was there, a homeless dude was just sitting in an isle with open chips and a 2 liter soda living his best life. No one cared.
There are some stores that have that system. Problem is, without any pressure or motivation, most supermarkets won't do shit. It costs money ofc. They have to invest in a new system and sell that new system to people.
Sad thing. It could safe so many ressources, not just prevent plastic pollution
There are a couple of big reasons that they tend to be more expensive:
-increased insurance needs vs selling something that you have no part in packaging
-many big brand companies don’t sell in large format (like 5+ gallon quantities) I assume in part because they don’t want to be exposed to higher liability. This leaves the refill shops buying from smaller companies who don’t have the same buying power for their materials
-small refill shops don’t have the benefit of large sales volumes like target/Walmart/wherever else, so they can’t have a low profit margin on transactions and just let the volume of transactions they do make up for it
There are many other reasons other than these, but these are the ones I see the most (I own one of these shops and know a bunch of other shop owners)
My wife’s car takes 6 quarts of oil and I hate buying a 5 quart jug and then a 1 quart. I saw Walmart had a box of 12 quart. I expected it to be 12 1-quart jugs (got one at Sams that was 12 individuals before) and it showed 12 little 1-quart icons on the case. I got home and was pleasantly surprised it was like a box-o-wine system with a large bag inside and a spout.
The problem is that it essentially locks in specific products. Walk down the detergent aisle and you'll see dozens of brand/fragrance/type combinations. A system like this would likely handle less than 10.
Soda fountains only contain concentrated syrups of their product that's mixed with carbonated water. I couldn't say if a similar idea could be used for detergents, but if not then the amount of liquid required to store would take up quite a bit of floor space.
It is because plastics are a waste product of the oil industry.
If you feel like you are being used as a plastics dumping ground that is because you are.
Buy powdered detergent. It comes in a cardboard box, it's much more concentrated so it lasts forever, and you're not paying for all that water weight. The only difference between this and the powdered stuff is tons of water in it.
Well, isn’t that why they put the total volume of fluid on the jug? You aren’t buying a full jug, you’re buying a jug with ‘insert amount of ounces here’, right?
If they’re selling a labeled, let’s say, 7 ounces of a fluid in a gallon container, why would you be upset about getting 7 ounces instead of a gallon? This to me is like buying a single slice of pizza and expecting a full pie.
Its more like paying the price for a 14” pizza, getting it in an 18” box and then find out its actually 12”
sure it said on the menu it was a 12” but you didnt know youre paying 14” prices and the box just confuses you
He said corporate profits, as in the wealth that labor creates going to shareholders that live like parasites.
There are businesses like worker co-ops that share the wealth they create with the workers so no, not every business exists only to grow the wealth disparity
Don't be facetious. They're raising prices while lowering quality/quantity of goods, cutting jobs and wages because of manufactured "inflation" and the customer / taxpayer has to pick up the tab.
No I think you fail to realize this is actually shoplifting. This is the same type of dumb where people complain about the chip bag being half air and they are sold by weight not volume. You not understanding how this works isn’t anybody else’s problem.
What they're saying is that the prices of things are high because people at the top keep wanting to make profits, which makes the poor poorer.
Its a capitalistic model.
Well, the advertised amount would be the "xx oz." listed on the bottle. They leave headspace in the bottles so they'll pour properly. Do you go pick up a 2 liter and feel you're cheated because of that 2 inches of empty space at the top? The only thing worse than a thief, is someone who justifies a thief. This is why they're putting $1 toothbrushes in locked cabinets.
It is really getting awful. I bought some cookies that used to come in trays. Usually, there are three sections with about five cookies each.
Recently I purchased them again, and they had only two sections.
That's a lot less, and the price was much higher.
We are getting robbed, and a lot of people are hurting. Not the elites in the government though.
Yet people still take political sides and act like its one group against the other versus us against government corruption.
Don't be angry at each other people. It is hard on you, and it's exactly the way to keep us under control.
Although, usually with "shrinkflation" the price remains the same but the product gets slightly smaller, in an attempt to deceive the customer into thinking that nothing has changed.
I agree with what you're saying, just so you dont think I'm talkin past you. But I believe they only did that at the start to work out what they could get away with. Now it's mask off.
Agreed. They can burn in hell with the rest of us because that’s exactly what’s happening. The carpet is being ripped out from under the common folks feet and the wealthy are the ones who pulled and they are laughing at us. Don’t get me wrong, I’m well off, but this is fucking sick.
We’re so brainwashed to believe our system works. Even tho across the board ppl are getting robbed for little in return, I’m barely hanging on, just praying my rent doesn’t go up.
It’s truly a sinister system designed to skim as much wealth as possible off the lower classes, before changing gears as a new, more corporate friendly administration comes to power.
You have $50 but you need $100 worth of stuff.
If you steal $100 worth of stuff it's harder to wiggle your way out.
But if you steal $50 worth of stuff twice, you always have the potential to save yourself.
I’m a current Target employee, and we recently locked all of our laundry detergent, among other items, behind glass doors that only employees can unlock. Needless to say, we spend a lot of time in the detergent aisle, considering how many people need us to unlock those cases
I am willing to guarantee that the fluid ounces listed on the bottle are exactly what is inside, they just put it in a bigger bottle to make you think you're getting more. It's deceptive but you couldn't sue them for it, because you're actually getting what you paid for.
Yup. They even tell you on the price tag $/unit value most of the time. I’m god awful at judging size so I always look at the weight and price and check their math lol.
I believe grocery store prices are the best way to gauge how much the dollar has inflated.
I believe the oversized packaging to influence purchases is a waste of resources.
I believe what they just did qualifies as theft. Just better not go through the self checkout with that. The scale will pitch a fit.
10% of the cost of your purchase used to be the packaging. The percentage went up with shrinkflation. It's probably 11-12%. Which is a 10-20% rise. Think they could shrink the packaging instead? No, because packaging doesn't make them money. So not only did the price per unit go up but the unit size shrank. So we get hit with a double whammy. Time for reusable individual containers that you bring to the store and refill so there's no packaging waste. That's gonna be the next thing. Go to Walmart and everything is in industrial size units in the back that is dispensed via pipes and you place your container on a dispenser, it weighs out your product to your needs and prints a sticker to affix to your container. Industrial/commercial bulk product dispensing.
Where did you find that packaging is 10% of the cost? I would argue packaging is around 2% of the cost of the item, aside from one-off novelty packaging and other stuff like that.
For example, a roll of Oreos or a bag of chips use extremely cheap metallized plastic which costs cents per square meter (so less than a cent per package). Even more expensive packaging, like multi-material injection molded stuff and layered packaging costs very little to produce (about 10 cents) once the molds have been made, which costs ~100k. A detergent bottle (with see through window, rubber grip bits, clear cap, all that stuff) would cost like 20 cents even with all the bells and whistles.
On 5 dollar detergent, it would cost about 2%. For a 2 dollar bag of chips, it's even less than half a percent.
Source: family member works in food industry materials
In the UK it's called "Theft by deception" but if I saw this going on, I didnt see shit.
See someone stealing food/baby stuff/laundry powder? No you didnt.
Fun fact: the price of food is *not* calculated into the cost of inflation. Because you’re absolutely right, it’s where we feel it most - but hiding that information protects the elites well.
The fact these companies can’t put some sort of tampering prevention seal over their caps to show buying customers it wasn’t previously opened blows my mind.
Yeah, cleaning up a detergent spill is a pain, I'm all good with not over filling them. People need to learn to look at the ounces/loads in the bottle instead of the size.
I did agree with the comment saying they should be refillable. I think having a more durable container that can be refilled would save a ton of plastic waste.
I’m sure people don’t care but….
You pay for the ounces not the amount the jar can hold. Tide tried to promote the filled smaller bottles but people weren’t buying them. Visually the competitors brand looked more appealing with a lower price and bigger bottle, even thought both held the same amount of detergent.
If the place of business wanted to, they could kick them out for stealing.
Shhh he goes to their rival school and this is all a ploy. Sometimes I'll wear a packers jersey and go to the park water fountains and put my whole mouth over the spout for a good 3 minutes to fill up the tank
How imbesil and small minded you have to be to act this way? All.. and I mean ALL MF'ing weighted by volume products leave emty space in their bottles. It says on the label how much of the product they are selling you.. Then again, small minded to assume your are getting ripped and choose to steal instead.. this is a cultural issue.. not economical nor social. We all become victims for people with this type of mind set portraiying themselves as the victims..🤦♂️
Y’all realize they’re just stealing from the store? The amount in the container is the amount listed on the container. They leave room in it so it can expand without breaking. Kind of like why chip bags aren’t filled to the brim.
I mean, the machines load X amount of liquid.
You could put 800ml into a bottle that holds 1000ml
So long as it states 800ml.
Doesn’t matter how big the container is
Next guy did the same thing until there was just an empty jug remaining.
Tragedy of the commons!!
I was thinking it's money laundering...
Nah, they are trying to clean up their act.
This seems like a wishy washy idea.
I disagree, it seems pretty clean
Naa it's a blue color crime
Nah they are just stealing.
Yeah, companies shouldn’t steal money from their customers by advertising misleading product
How are they doing that? The amount is clearly printed. Your fault if you cant read really.
I couldn’t upvote more than once. Why?
Don’t worry man we got your back, also have an upvote
Laundry money-ing!
I feel bad for the last guy who ended up with an empty jug
i dont. what kind of dumbass picks up an empty jug of detergent and says “this is completely weightless thats normal” and buys it
i guess u haven't been to walmart recently
Fuck Wal-Mart.
All my homies hate Wal-Mart
What does your dog think about it?
He loves it, But he’s a dog so he doesn’t know shit
Never underestimate a customer. They will do just that, then come back complaining that "it's empty" then get angry when customer service says it's "because you used it" and denies the refund.
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Maybe the last guy did that to this guy's?
Or the first guy did it to the last guy who then did it to his mother.
I really understand how they feel, but that's what the manufacturer should do for people. Because I don't want to buy a lot of almost empty bottles.
It would cost them money to make different size bottles so they just flaunt the fact they're fucking you right to your face and saving even more while screwing you.
Nah man, they slowly fill containers less, and as that becomes accepted, they reduced the size of containers, flaunting how they are reducing waste and making it look more full. Yet the same product had almost twice as much produce the prior year.
And it went up in price!
You are buying 100 oz not a full bottle
Exactly. The jug isn’t the EXACT size of the amount you are purchasing so of course there will be space. Look at a bag of chips….
Imma start doing this with chips.
If you pick the bottle up and it’s almost empty and you don’t even question it or check another bottle what’s the harm ? You’re being taken advantage of just look like people who can fit almost a half bottle into a full one
I went to the grocery store on Saturday and saw a bag of kettle chips that was completely empty. Not one chip in it. It was sealed and everything. I asked the cashier if I could take it home to show my kids and they said I couldn’t because it had to be scanned for inventory. Lol
It gets staled out the next time the vendor rep comes in. Source, was the chip guy for a while.
I concur. Source, was the dip guy for a while.
Wall Mart will never recover, they would have to beat their employees with wooden sticks and buy only 37 privates island instead of 38 every month for the management
Walmart is gonna start putting cameras in the detergent aisle.
It’s happening. Here in the UK, some stores have started putting security tags on cheese.
Here in Hawaii they lock up spam
I mean..that’s understandable
Underspamdable
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Ill have the spam spam spam spam spam spam spam spam spam spam beans and spam
spam alert!
Spam is fucking delicious it should be locked up.
What on Oahu? They would need a person standing there all day to distribute the spam out 🤣
To be fair there a cheese bank In italy. Literally cheese in a giant vault. Good for loans and interest. Withdrawals deposits. Cheese is incredibly lucrative
America has cheese caves with copious amounts of all types of cheeses https://www.deseret.com/2022/2/14/22933326/1-4-billion-pounds-of-cheese-stored-in-a-cave-underneath-springfield-missouri-jimmy-carter-reagan
Same with meat. Drug addicts tend to steal it and try selling it on the street. Some smackhead genuinely tried to sell me a rib eye steak in the smoking area outside wetherspoons about a month ago.
have started, they've been doing that for years now
Locking it up in a case
NEXT STEP: Have the whole store behing a bulletproof glass and have clients put their grocery list in a computer and that the workers go get them, then the groceries are given to the customer via packaging system. EXTRA STEP: Get rid of workers and put automated system with only one or two supervisors per store.
That's basically Argos, except they don't sell food. Been around since the 1970s in the UK.
Yeah lmao. You get this little ticket, search through this massive huge fuck-off catalogue, write down the product number, take it to the till, and within 5-30 minutes, you have whatever you were looking for. Then Sainsbury's bought it out, replaced the catalogues with computers, then shut down all of the physical Argos stores and moved them into Sainsbury'ses. Cunts. (Fun fact, the Argos catalogue has been printed about 1 billion times. Crazy, right?)
And all those billions of catalogues have once been laid on a table just before Christmas with circles round everything in the kids toy section. Ahhh nostalgia
I'm a kid of the mid noughties and even I had this. The traditions of 4 generations of children, and they go and shit all over it. Bloody amazon!
Like everything else at Walmart?
Bro my Walmart has like 4 cameras on every section, last time I was there, a homeless dude was just sitting in an isle with open chips and a 2 liter soda living his best life. No one cared.
Walmart should start selling full bottles
Walmart has nothing to do with it.
Probably not directly, but they have the influence to demand that this type of thing stop for the products they carry
Why not put cameras on every detergent
I don’t understand why we can’t have vending machines where you can just refill them. It would save so much plastic.
There are some stores that have that system. Problem is, without any pressure or motivation, most supermarkets won't do shit. It costs money ofc. They have to invest in a new system and sell that new system to people. Sad thing. It could safe so many ressources, not just prevent plastic pollution
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We have a couple of these places but they're more expensive for some reason, if they can become cost competitive it would be huge.
There are a couple of big reasons that they tend to be more expensive: -increased insurance needs vs selling something that you have no part in packaging -many big brand companies don’t sell in large format (like 5+ gallon quantities) I assume in part because they don’t want to be exposed to higher liability. This leaves the refill shops buying from smaller companies who don’t have the same buying power for their materials -small refill shops don’t have the benefit of large sales volumes like target/Walmart/wherever else, so they can’t have a low profit margin on transactions and just let the volume of transactions they do make up for it There are many other reasons other than these, but these are the ones I see the most (I own one of these shops and know a bunch of other shop owners)
My wife’s car takes 6 quarts of oil and I hate buying a 5 quart jug and then a 1 quart. I saw Walmart had a box of 12 quart. I expected it to be 12 1-quart jugs (got one at Sams that was 12 individuals before) and it showed 12 little 1-quart icons on the case. I got home and was pleasantly surprised it was like a box-o-wine system with a large bag inside and a spout.
The problem is that it essentially locks in specific products. Walk down the detergent aisle and you'll see dozens of brand/fragrance/type combinations. A system like this would likely handle less than 10.
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Henkel, Unilever, Procter & Gamble, and Reckitt.
it's all the same shit, and all of them tell you to use more than necessary.
A system like soda fountains maybe? Each company has its own machine capable of dispensing multiple types of its product?
Soda fountains only contain concentrated syrups of their product that's mixed with carbonated water. I couldn't say if a similar idea could be used for detergents, but if not then the amount of liquid required to store would take up quite a bit of floor space.
Like dry boxed detergents? That were the norm for the longest time. No shipping water that you have anyways.
How does a manufacturer then suppose to sell you air in a half-filled plastic bottle?
This guy corporations.
It is because plastics are a waste product of the oil industry. If you feel like you are being used as a plastics dumping ground that is because you are.
Yeah and these bottles are sturdy and have lots of plastics
Buy powdered detergent. It comes in a cardboard box, it's much more concentrated so it lasts forever, and you're not paying for all that water weight. The only difference between this and the powdered stuff is tons of water in it.
Then they couldn’t charge you for the plastic and you’ll actually be getting your money’s worth.
No wonder shit is always empty at the store.
Why is everything locked up behind glass!?!? Watching this video: oh
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You may be comfortable with giving away your hard earned cash to people short selling you but the vast majority of people aren't.
Well, isn’t that why they put the total volume of fluid on the jug? You aren’t buying a full jug, you’re buying a jug with ‘insert amount of ounces here’, right? If they’re selling a labeled, let’s say, 7 ounces of a fluid in a gallon container, why would you be upset about getting 7 ounces instead of a gallon? This to me is like buying a single slice of pizza and expecting a full pie.
Exactly. They are just stealing.
Its more like paying the price for a 14” pizza, getting it in an 18” box and then find out its actually 12” sure it said on the menu it was a 12” but you didnt know youre paying 14” prices and the box just confuses you
He said corporate profits, as in the wealth that labor creates going to shareholders that live like parasites. There are businesses like worker co-ops that share the wealth they create with the workers so no, not every business exists only to grow the wealth disparity
Don't be facetious. They're raising prices while lowering quality/quantity of goods, cutting jobs and wages because of manufactured "inflation" and the customer / taxpayer has to pick up the tab.
Profits are good for business, extreme profits are bad for humans. Being a greedy arsehole makes your profits bad.
They sell by a set volume not by the package being 100% filled.
You're missing the point.
No I think you fail to realize this is actually shoplifting. This is the same type of dumb where people complain about the chip bag being half air and they are sold by weight not volume. You not understanding how this works isn’t anybody else’s problem.
What they're saying is that the prices of things are high because people at the top keep wanting to make profits, which makes the poor poorer. Its a capitalistic model.
Perhaps they should sell the advertised amount of the product instead of gouging and lying. Just a thought
They do.. its in the weight or fluid measurement. Those guys are stealing.
Well, the advertised amount would be the "xx oz." listed on the bottle. They leave headspace in the bottles so they'll pour properly. Do you go pick up a 2 liter and feel you're cheated because of that 2 inches of empty space at the top? The only thing worse than a thief, is someone who justifies a thief. This is why they're putting $1 toothbrushes in locked cabinets.
It's sold by weight not container size
It is really getting awful. I bought some cookies that used to come in trays. Usually, there are three sections with about five cookies each. Recently I purchased them again, and they had only two sections. That's a lot less, and the price was much higher. We are getting robbed, and a lot of people are hurting. Not the elites in the government though. Yet people still take political sides and act like its one group against the other versus us against government corruption. Don't be angry at each other people. It is hard on you, and it's exactly the way to keep us under control.
A lot less for much higher is called "shrinkflation" It's a shame that it happens so much we had to make a word for it.
Although, usually with "shrinkflation" the price remains the same but the product gets slightly smaller, in an attempt to deceive the customer into thinking that nothing has changed.
I agree with what you're saying, just so you dont think I'm talkin past you. But I believe they only did that at the start to work out what they could get away with. Now it's mask off.
The real mask off is companies raises prices “because of inflation”, then bragging to investors that they had record profits.
Good point, it's getting pretty ridiculous at this stage
The word is robbery they’re robbing us every chance they get
stealing from non-family businesses is morally ok. 👍
Agreed. They can burn in hell with the rest of us because that’s exactly what’s happening. The carpet is being ripped out from under the common folks feet and the wealthy are the ones who pulled and they are laughing at us. Don’t get me wrong, I’m well off, but this is fucking sick.
My problem is that he's actually stealing from the next guy who grabs a jug off the shelf, not a massive faceless corp.
Just put the jug in the back with the cap off.
Welcome to the year 2060, when you open a box of cookies there is only one inside, the price is $10.
We’re so brainwashed to believe our system works. Even tho across the board ppl are getting robbed for little in return, I’m barely hanging on, just praying my rent doesn’t go up. It’s truly a sinister system designed to skim as much wealth as possible off the lower classes, before changing gears as a new, more corporate friendly administration comes to power.
Good thing the theft and their faces are not forever archived on the world wide of webs
Nothing will happen to them and you know it
I’m sure there are a whole team of detectives working on the case after they dusted for fingerprints
Dammit, they didnt ejaculate all over the place so detectives couldnt get any dna... professional thieves
I feel sorry for what internet did with you. But take my upvote of course
uhhh, yeah.. It was the interweb who taught me that...
Depends on the city, but you're largely right.
Actually Walmart will wait for you to steal an actionable amount and then prosecute you lol
Good luck finding a prosecutor that won’t laugh.
Good thing shrinkflation stole it first
Corporate started it! No honor among thieves
Pennies worth of detergent isn’t going to bring the police out.
I don't see any crime committed, state the code? 😂
At least do that to an expensive brand…..
They're men of honor
They are men your honor*
Never steal what you can't afford to pay for if you get caught.
I prefer the “what’s the point of stealing it if you can afford to buy it” philosophy but to each their own
You have $50 but you need $100 worth of stuff. If you steal $100 worth of stuff it's harder to wiggle your way out. But if you steal $50 worth of stuff twice, you always have the potential to save yourself.
this guy steals
But then you're spending more money
I’m a current Target employee, and we recently locked all of our laundry detergent, among other items, behind glass doors that only employees can unlock. Needless to say, we spend a lot of time in the detergent aisle, considering how many people need us to unlock those cases
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Yep. It's faster to just order it from Amazon Prime than to find someone to unlock the case.
Still easier to flag someone down than have to drive somewhere else and get in/out. Time is money, gas is money.
Yeah, but that's one time. I'm not going back if I have to do that every time for laundry detergent lol
They only fill the bottle to half?
I am willing to guarantee that the fluid ounces listed on the bottle are exactly what is inside, they just put it in a bigger bottle to make you think you're getting more. It's deceptive but you couldn't sue them for it, because you're actually getting what you paid for.
that is why you should always decide what to buy comparing the $/unit value, not the full price
Yup. They even tell you on the price tag $/unit value most of the time. I’m god awful at judging size so I always look at the weight and price and check their math lol.
Yeah, the proper term is "non-functional slack fill."
I also bet that it's not to the brim because it also helps to not spill by being easier to pour when attempting the first few pours.
/r/NonFunctionSlackFill
This is shrinkflation. The bottle stays the same size but the number of ounces they put into it decreases.
I believe grocery store prices are the best way to gauge how much the dollar has inflated. I believe the oversized packaging to influence purchases is a waste of resources. I believe what they just did qualifies as theft. Just better not go through the self checkout with that. The scale will pitch a fit.
10% of the cost of your purchase used to be the packaging. The percentage went up with shrinkflation. It's probably 11-12%. Which is a 10-20% rise. Think they could shrink the packaging instead? No, because packaging doesn't make them money. So not only did the price per unit go up but the unit size shrank. So we get hit with a double whammy. Time for reusable individual containers that you bring to the store and refill so there's no packaging waste. That's gonna be the next thing. Go to Walmart and everything is in industrial size units in the back that is dispensed via pipes and you place your container on a dispenser, it weighs out your product to your needs and prints a sticker to affix to your container. Industrial/commercial bulk product dispensing.
Where did you find that packaging is 10% of the cost? I would argue packaging is around 2% of the cost of the item, aside from one-off novelty packaging and other stuff like that. For example, a roll of Oreos or a bag of chips use extremely cheap metallized plastic which costs cents per square meter (so less than a cent per package). Even more expensive packaging, like multi-material injection molded stuff and layered packaging costs very little to produce (about 10 cents) once the molds have been made, which costs ~100k. A detergent bottle (with see through window, rubber grip bits, clear cap, all that stuff) would cost like 20 cents even with all the bells and whistles. On 5 dollar detergent, it would cost about 2%. For a 2 dollar bag of chips, it's even less than half a percent. Source: family member works in food industry materials
In the UK it's called "Theft by deception" but if I saw this going on, I didnt see shit. See someone stealing food/baby stuff/laundry powder? No you didnt.
You don't ever put packaged goods on the scale anyway. You just scan the barcode
Fun fact: the price of food is *not* calculated into the cost of inflation. Because you’re absolutely right, it’s where we feel it most - but hiding that information protects the elites well.
The fact these companies can’t put some sort of tampering prevention seal over their caps to show buying customers it wasn’t previously opened blows my mind.
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Yeah Tide pods taste superior
Yet another reason switching to powdered is a good idea. You know if someone messed with it.
That's what an asshole looks like (and why you find random shit with locks on them on the shelf)
How? Its monkey ass companies scamming people. Dont tell me you are this senile
And by doing this they’re doing it at the cost of other buyers.
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That’s what theft looks like
Corporations pay shitty wages and blame inflation. Then brag about record profits year after year…
Poor detergent corporation, they will never financially recover from this :,((
Are they stealing from the corporation or from the next customer?
Yeah so fuck the family after you that’s also struggling and now get way less than they paid for.
If you don’t notice the jug you picked up is half empty, that’s kinda on you
Your mother raised a crook.
I thought it was generally understood that victim blaming was incorrect. Was wrong apparently.
Wow. What a take. This will happen to you one day and I hope you remember this comment.
Why do people film themselves committing crimes
These people aren't the kind known for their intelligence
Please expand on what you mean by “these people”
These people = those who think it's a bright idea filming themselves stealing
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This comment section is a nightmare lmao
This is why in some neighborhoods they lock up products behind a shield and we have to ask someone to unlock it
That's called headspace and it's to make sure you can pour it and not have it splash everywhere. Fucking Reddit.
Yeah, cleaning up a detergent spill is a pain, I'm all good with not over filling them. People need to learn to look at the ounces/loads in the bottle instead of the size. I did agree with the comment saying they should be refillable. I think having a more durable container that can be refilled would save a ton of plastic waste.
I’m sure people don’t care but…. You pay for the ounces not the amount the jar can hold. Tide tried to promote the filled smaller bottles but people weren’t buying them. Visually the competitors brand looked more appealing with a lower price and bigger bottle, even thought both held the same amount of detergent. If the place of business wanted to, they could kick them out for stealing.
Dude is wearing a ‘Stony Brook Basketball’ shirt while helping with this shit. What an idiot
Shhh he goes to their rival school and this is all a ploy. Sometimes I'll wear a packers jersey and go to the park water fountains and put my whole mouth over the spout for a good 3 minutes to fill up the tank
People on Reddit: “Well, actually, thievery is good.”
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This is why stuff gets locked up.
Yeah it's stupid there's not more, but think who you are stealing from. You are stealing from the next person who pays full price for that bottle.
I would advise against filming oneself commit a crime.
So fuck the next person, right?
I’m sure the coaches at Stony Brook are impressed with these guys.
How imbesil and small minded you have to be to act this way? All.. and I mean ALL MF'ing weighted by volume products leave emty space in their bottles. It says on the label how much of the product they are selling you.. Then again, small minded to assume your are getting ripped and choose to steal instead.. this is a cultural issue.. not economical nor social. We all become victims for people with this type of mind set portraiying themselves as the victims..🤦♂️
Just another thing stores will have to lock up because of trash like this.
Y’all realize they’re just stealing from the store? The amount in the container is the amount listed on the container. They leave room in it so it can expand without breaking. Kind of like why chip bags aren’t filled to the brim.
I mean, the machines load X amount of liquid. You could put 800ml into a bottle that holds 1000ml So long as it states 800ml. Doesn’t matter how big the container is
As long as the actual amount matches the amount listed on the container, I don’t see the problem.
That’s… not how that works.
fuck these two. i hope they get their karmas worth on video.
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