Supermarket Weights and Measures Trickery - as eggs are surely eggs?

2sides2everystory

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George_Michael

Edited for clarity.

There are a number of apologists for the retailers people who disagree with me inhabiting these threads and I am especially fed up with the view that consumers must be 'idiots' or silly if they can't spot the difference in carton sizes or any other pack size just by looking at it and perhaps comparing it with known sized alternative products on neighbouring shelves.

DCFC79

Whats the plan then ? if it bothers you that much then stop buying eggs form a supermarket and from another source lets say a local farm shop.

pitkin2020

its an egg..........what you going to do force the chicken to produce equal sized eggs...............

2sides2everystory

Oh no ... I see George Michael has come up with another of his careless whispers :rotfl:

And DCFC, No. The answer is that supermarkets should start respecting the law instead of constantly bending it and disrespecting their customers.

Pitkin - No. I don't know if you get out much so I don't know if you've seen one. There is more than one chicken at the egg laying plant. It isn't just one bleedin' great one that lays all the country's eggs. This means that they have size grading machines at the egg-packing plant and that they can control small eggs into boxes marked S and bigger eggs into other boxes marked something else (if they want to).

pitkin2020

2sides2everystory wrote: »

Pitkin - No. I don't know if you get out much so I don't know if you've seen one. There is more than one chicken at the egg laying plant. It isn't just one bleedin' great one that lays all the country's eggs. This means that they have size grading machines at the egg-packing plant and that they can control small eggs into boxes marked S and bigger eggs into other boxes marked something else (if they want to).

WOW there is more than one chicken, are you sure??

Seeing as I get my eggs fresh off the farm they are all different sizes as funnily enough they do come from different chickens, even the same chicken is unlikely to produce an egg that is exactly the same as the last.

Supermarkets waste so much produce because people are becoming so anal about things like this, its an egg !!!!!!. They are graded sml and lrg to near enough sizes not to exact measurements. Hundreds and thousands of tonnes of produce are not sold to supermarkets (and usually end up as waste/animal feed) because a cucumber isn't straight, a banana isn't curved enough, an orange isn't orange enough in colour.

Maybe if you got out of the city a bit more where meat doesn't come from the animal prepackaged and veg isn't prepacked you will see in the real world the hundreds of variations a single item can produce.

pitkin2020

DCFC79 wrote: »

Whats the plan then ? if it bothers you that much then stop buying eggs form a supermarket and from another source lets say a local farm shop.

Thats not going to happen now is it, the OP wants every egg to be exactly the same size perfectly. Now in the real world if you buy 12 eggs from a farm shop you will get 12 eggs, not 12 eggs that have 90 cubic ML of egg inside everyone lol

Forwandert

Egg grading machines work by weight not size, or they did do can't see why that would have changed.

shaun_from_Africa

Even a 5% reduction in diameter (that's 1/20th) results in an almost 15% reduction in the contents (that's getting on for a sixth)

I defy the clever dicks to argue they can tell this just by looking.

Why would they want to?
The "clever dicks" would know that if they buy eggs in the UK, then their diameter has nothing to with how they are labeled.
Provided it is within a certain weight range then A large egg is a large egg irrespective of whether it is 20mm or 30mm in diameter.

pmduk

I have never been an apologist for large retailers in my life. But the box of eggs I bought last said 10 mixed size eggs. As long as it contained 10 eggs, both the hens & retailers have done their job surely? You're arguing for the sake of arguing.

westendguy

I normally buy boxes of 10 free range eggs which sell for £1.80 at my local Rainbow (Co-op). Whilst the eggs have always been mixed sizes, they have recently changed the size of the box so the eggs contained therein are, on average, smaller.