Manipulate to Marketability
It is all a manipulation to keep the products marketable. It happens with everything but especially with food products. You are used to going to the grocery store and buying the same products for the same price. So when you go to the store to get a package of bacon you only see the similar price, not that it is now 12 oz rather than 16. The yogurt cups your wife loves are on sale, awesome, and you never notice that the size of the cup has grown slightly smaller. Your favorite breakfast glazed cinnamon rolls are now 3 to a package rather than 4. The lunch meat and cheeses you buy are the same way, all slightly smaller packaging but you are used to the price so it seems Ok. Take a look at the last package of frozen shrimp you bought and remember it used to be 16 oz also. Rather than raising prices to keep profits the same the vendors are reducing the amount of product so that when you buy it the perception is the same. Only now people are starting to notice as even with the smaller packaging the prices are rising. Now when you look at that package you are saying 'Hey, I am paying more now and getting less?'. But it has been going on for years relatively unnoticed. The younger generation doesn't have a clue about it. They pay what they pay and don't really care. It will be interesting if they did a poll of the elementary, high school, colleges and see what percentage actually had observed the change?
Good Luck to All! :^)
PLAN the TRADE and TRADE the PLAN!
