Harbor Fright Down Grades Quality Again

They didn't go "out of their way" to note that the product was changed (similar to Turbo Tax Deluxe, this year).

Doug Winterburn wrote in news:552ecfbf$0$34433$c3e8da3$ snipped-for-privacy@news.astraweb.com:

Raising the minimum wage would save billions in subsidies to McDonalds and Walmart (etc) employees.

Sure, we can read and that is why we are bitching about it. I'd rather pay the higher price and get the former half gallon of ice cream instead of buying 1 1/2 quarts. In a year's time I have to buy 16 packages instead of 12 to get the same amount of product. It is a waste of packaging material too.

Try putting a quart of home made soup in a 30 ounce mayo jar.

The manufacturer is attempting to deceive.

I think that is the key point! We expect better behavior from *our* nation's corporations.

Let me rephrase that:

We expect better behavior from *our* national corporations.

Since there was so much interest, I did the calculation just for fun. This years increase represents a 16.1% price increase, in the price of each bag, before sales tax. Feel free to double-check. I think that the extent of the effective price increase will not be noticed by more shoppers (which of course, I think is part of the strategy of implementing it this way). I've typed this the following sentence in other forums: When our nations corporations "go to war" against it's citizens, we can be less proud as a nation.

A quality item (an item that has quality) has the ability to perform satisfactorily in service and is suitable for its intended purpose. It may not suite Bill's need, but if the new design performs to the now intended purpose, it is of equal quality.

If it was of equal quality, why would Bill prefer the old box?

Deceiving you buy clearly labeling the product with the amount and a price. Make perfect sense. Every village needs idiots.

I know you have a hardon for Intuit (I'll not be using them next year, either) but there is a comparison of the various software levels on the package.

Absurd.

He wants added features.

When people have been buying quart bottles of mayo for 50 years, most don't look at the jar size every time they buy. Then it becomes 30 ounces for the same retail price. The purpose it to raise revenue and hope the customer does not notice. It is called deception. Perfectly legal. Many people have not notices until they got home. Sleazy way of doing business, IMO.

I'm not sure Back a couple of centuries ago (1963) I had a minimum wage job and was able to support myself, pay for college and buy a 2 year old car.

Today, many minimum wage workers are getting subsidized healthcare and food stamps.

What is different? See my other post bout inflation and comparitive value. My $1.55 per hour then is equal to $11.89 today. Minimum wage has not kept up.

It's either hit the shrink ray (the popular term used) or increase prices.

Which would YOU prefer?

--------------------------------------- My customers as well as myself prefer being straight up front about it and increase the price, but we are in the industrial side not the sleazy retail side.

Lew

I can assure you is wasn't the same price for 50 years. If they are guilty of taking advantage of idiots, it's the idiots' fault.

If people are too stupid to see the volume or weight CLEARLY written on the package and then blame the company for ripping them off, then

I can't advocate for taking advantage of idiots.

Maybe the right question is to ask whether the mayo jar was changed with the intent "to deceive". Our society leaves a lot of room for angle-shooters (too)--look what is spent on getting ahead via the law. Ask Intuit who successfully lobbies against a simplied tax system.

That's a ray of light..."Sorry, m'am, you now make too much to qualify for Section 8" :)