I went grocery shopping today and spent $118. I bought all the things I usually buy, spent about the same as I usually do (maybe a little more) but I noticed that I had fewer bags to carry. It made me wonder what was going on. At first I thought “Maybe the bag boy missed a few bags.”, but then I realized that I watched him pack and load my cart and everything went in.
When I was unpacking at home it finally came to me. While I was still paying the same price for things, the packaging they came in has mysteriously gotten smaller! It wasn’t easy to detect with some things until I checked the ounces on the package. Ice cream was easy, the ½ gallon carton now looks like it was made for a little girl’s play kitchen, but my mayonnaise bottle had 4 less ounces than before and the packaging read “bright new package, same great taste!” It may have the same taste, but they’re charging me the same amount of money and giving me less product. I could care less about the bright new packaging!
