Four is the new Five

[freeradical]

Has anyone else noticed that the small bags of sugar are now all four pounds instead of five pounds.

[Mini 9]

Did the quake upset gravity?

[DinerDave]

Ice cream half gallons went to 56 oz, now some are 48 oz.
What was it, 20 years ago or so a pound of coffee shrunk to 13oz.
In the consumer's mind, it's helping to hold a better price point.

Dave

[cbelt3]

It's the Giant Economy Size. This model has been going on for years. Bought a can of coffee later ? Used to be 5 lbs. It's like, what,, 3 lbs now ?

[steve...]

My Folgers is now 1 lb 11.8 ounces. I think Costco still has larger sizes.

It's a good thing one bag of sugar lasts me a long time.

[space-time]

but at the restaurants the portions are bigger and bigger!

[JoeH]

Major brands of OJ just went through a down-sizing instead of price-increase too. 59 oz instead of 64 oz in the cartons. They did a pretty good job of camouflaging the change, the cartons are almost indistinguishable from the old ones. Similar size changes showed up in other sizes too.

[The UnDoug]

Don't even GET me started talking about yogurts!

:-)

[graylocks]

The UnDoug wrote:
Don't even GET me started talking about yogurts!

:-)

aren't some down to 5oz now?

[Grateful11]

My wife just handed me a Kleenex and they're square now, not a rectangle like they used to be. They've cut
at least an 1" off the end, box looks to be the same size.