The great Walkers swindle

ColinFishwick

Oh for Petes sake okay you feel annoyed if you thought first time a multi pack was same size but you know they aren't now so dont buy them if you feel annoyed about it. Plenty of other suppliers out there and there crisps are better. ie Seabrooks for a start. No one is forcing you to buy them.

Labmanager

JethroUK wrote: »

People shopping in a busy supermarket environment are buying 99.99999999999999999999% of items "at face value"

Walkers could reduce the weight again - tomorrow - and they would sell millions before anyone noticed - including you!!!!!

common sense? - You are living in a dream if you believe otherwise

More nonsense I suggest. Where do you get that figure from? Or did you just make it up?

mo786uk

MSE probably has a disproprotionate amount of savvy shoppers.

Its fair to say the vast majority of people do not track prices or value with any determination or precision. The retailers all know this and as someone who champions the consumer its a dman shame.

If consumers really were a lot more savvy people like the supermarkets wouldn't be able to price in the way they do (i.e always moving prices up and down with them eventually going up).

Most peopel thesedays are too busy to be going around keeping track of the price/size of every product they buy.

wealdroam

No-one seems to have noticed Hintza's revelation in post #71.

Here is another example of the OP's strange thoughts.

It's possible that even Zandoni may not agree with that.

dacouch

The simple answer is that Gary Linekar is paid in crisps, they have reduced the multi pack sizes to give them enough crisps to feed Gary

Zandoni

tomwakefield wrote: »

"Allow themselves to fall for marketing tricks" or "able to read the packaging"?

The first bit......

Zandoni

wealdroam wrote: »

No-one seems to have noticed Hintza's revelation in post #71.

Here is another example of the OP's strange thoughts.

It's possible that even Zandoni may not agree with that.

I never commented on your previous post about the OP's previous threads because it's not relevant to this discussion. I don't understnd why it's necessary to research someone on here when they start a thread.

squeaky

Zandoni wrote: »

What reason would there be to make a slightly smaller bag for the multipacks if it wasn't to deceive. They would need lots of special equpment to measure and pack them.

Actually no, honest.

They just need to change the tube and the forming shoulder that the bags are made on, (and the roll of packaging film) - then change the weight that the filling machine dispenses at.

Takes just a few minutes to do and, in fact, is done regularly in many packaging companies who pack different types and sizes of products.

JethroUK

shaun_from_Africa wrote: »

If the outer bag states that it contains 6/8/12 bags of crisps each weighing 25 grams, then where does the underpacking come into it?

I'll take it that your obtuse response is your substitute for a suitable explaination

Good idea

Any attempt to explain this under-packing away would make anyone look foolish

JethroUK

mo786uk wrote: »

MSE probably has a disproprotionate amount of savvy shoppers.

Its fair to say the vast majority of people do not track prices or value with any determination or precision. The retailers all know this and as someone who champions the consumer its a dman shame.

If consumers really were a lot more savvy people like the supermarkets wouldn't be able to price in the way they do (i.e always moving prices up and down with them eventually going up).

Most peopel thesedays are too busy to be going around keeping track of the price/size of every product they buy.

mo786uk for Vice President :T:T:T:T:T:T:T

You are right on all counts - and the law should 'step-up' to prevent unscrupulous companies ("WALKERS") exploiting this