Food Weights con

stephen77

Borage wrote: »

If everything had standard sizes this rip off could,nt happen

The sizes is in on the pack. Shelf edges often have price per kg present as well.

Having standard sizes is not pratical. THere was enough lobbying against bread when that had size standards.

Plus who decides the sizes? Why should Tesco have to have x size product because Waitrose want it and vice versa.

juno

bambibear wrote: »

The latest victim are the cadburys Peanuts in chocolate. They've changed the packaging and lo and behold they seem to have lost 20g of their weight also!
They're now only 180g where the yellow packets had 200g.

Don't seem to have lost 10% of their cost though.

All of the Cadbury's things in that range - like the Wispa bites and Caramel button things - lost weight recently. Caramel had a slight package change; the pack went from having pics of large buttons on the front to showing smaller ones.

Borage

stephen77 wrote: »

The sizes is in on the pack. Shelf edges often have price per kg present as well.

Having standard sizes is not pratical. THere was enough lobbying against bread when that had size standards.

Plus who decides the sizes? Why should Tesco have to have x size product because Waitrose want it and vice versa.

You must have time to trawl over packaging to find the weights then.
Why arn,t standard sizes practical ?
Who lobbied against bread standard size , the manufacturer ?
Price per kilo dont tell you if a bar of chocolate is a few grams less does it

SoWhatIsNext

Borage wrote: »

You must have time to trawl over packaging to find the weights then.
Why arn,t standard sizes practical ?
Who lobbied against bread standard size , the manufacturer ?
Price per kilo dont tell you if a bar of chocolate is a few grams less does it

That's why you pay attention to what you buy instead of just throwing it in the shopping trolley.

Either way, whether it's;

• a product that is the same size but the price goes up

or

• the size is reduced but the price stays the same

it results in you paying more per kg/unit.

Borage

SoWhatIsNext wrote: »

That's why you pay attention to what you buy instead of just throwing it in the shopping trolley.

Either way, whether it's;

• a product that is the same size but the price goes up

or

• the size is reduced but the price stays the same

it results in you paying more per kg/unit.

If the price goes up its noticeable, but price per Kg/unit is only good if you knew the Kg per unit price before the weight drop

stephen77

Borage wrote: »

1) You must have time to trawl over packaging to find the weights then.
2) Why arn,t standard sizes practical ?
3) Who lobbied against bread standard size , the manufacturer ?
Price per kilo dont tell you if a bar of chocolate is a few grams less does it

1) It does not take that long to find.

2) whole host of reasons A) go to the foreign isle in a supermarket and they will have whole host of non-eu products. what durastriction do we have over them to tell them what size to do?
if one supplier makes cakes weighing 180g and another making 160g. Both are old tradational recipes going back many years. Why should one change because you want to see standard packaging sizes. Plus change the weight may effect the eat of the cake.

3) I am not sure who lobbied against it. Probably a variety of people and groups. Manufacturers were probably less keen to change as it meant buying new tins and process and having more lines. Its in the consumer interest to have more than one option.

4) price per kg will not tell how much the product weighs. It tells you price per kg. Which your concern about being wripped off, is probably the most important thing as the price per kg has increased since the packaging change. So this will say your getting less for your money. It allows you to compare with other supermakets who sell different sized products at a glance to see where the best value for money is.
I look at that all the time to see where the best value is. Eg loose carrots are 10p a kg cheaper than bagged carrots in a major supermarket. Thus I buy the loose version as better value for money.

Borage

stephen77 wrote: »

1) Eg loose carrots are 10p a kg cheaper than bagged carrots in a major supermarket. Thus I buy the loose version as better value for money.

Very true. Someone mentioned a cadburys chocolate bar as being 20g lighter, but unless you knew the old price per Kg of that particular bar it would,nt do you much good would it

stephen77

Borage wrote: »

If the price goes up its noticeable, but price per Kg/unit is only good if you knew the Kg per unit price before the weight drop

Besides writing it down. Your not going to have much chance.
some products do state price per kg on the recipt.
Quite a few products also state the weight of the product on the recipt as well.

Borage

stephen77 wrote: »

Besides writing it down. Your not going to have much chance.
some products do state price per kg on the recipt.
Quite a few products also state the weight of the product on the recipt as well.

So until the weight is put along with the price, and the same size as the price, they are, shall we say, deceiving us

stephen77

Borage wrote: »

Very true. Someone mentioned a cadburys chocolate bar as being 20g lighter, but unless you knew the old price per Kg of that particular bar it would,nt do you much good would it

to a a degree what you paid for it last week. Is irrelavent.

You are either going to pay X price for the item or not. You have to base the item being value for money on competitor shops rather than how much the item was last week.

Price per litre is very useful especially with garages. I know which are the cheap and exspensive garages are near me.
The price per litre last week does not matter as I need to fill up today. I just choose the garage with the best value, rather than the one who put up prices.