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Old 03-24-2023, 05:13 PM
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We love Voortman chocolate chip oatmeal cookies. Up until 2 weeks ago the package was 12.34 ounces with 20 cookies for $3.79. Bought today, same price, same size packaging now it's 7.4 ounces with 12 cookies! I had to toss my cookies after seeing that! (pun intended). I have seen breakfast cereal "shrink" an ounce or 2 in the same size box and other similar "shrinks" but this one took the cake, er, cookie!
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My favorite: a certain kind of cooking spray--can't recall the name--had
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Opened up a can of Delmonte cooked Beets for a salad. Can was filled to the brim with liquid and 5 slices of beets golf ball size. Usually the can is packed with slices and small amount of liquid. Good thing I have beets growing, soon to be harvested.

On a positive side TJ’s potato chips are the same full bag, as always. So far haven’t noticed any size difference in products I buy there. New lemon scones were very good, but vanilla bean still my fav.
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Potato chip bags 1/2 the size of previous bags, same price
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Old 03-24-2023, 08:47 PM
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We’ve always made our homemade oatmeal raisin/chocolate cookies. Also noticed the same with potato chips and only buy them on sale. It’s frustrating we know just say NO it’s easy.
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We love Voortman chocolate chip oatmeal cookies. Up until 2 weeks ago the package was 12.34 ounces with 20 cookies for $3.79. Bought today, same price, same size packaging now it's 7.4 ounces with 12 cookies! I had to toss my cookies after seeing that! (pun intended). I have seen breakfast cereal "shrink" an ounce or 2 in the same size box and other similar "shrinks" but this one took the cake, er, cookie!
Have you measured the width of your toilet tissue lately ? A roll "used" to just fit into any standard T.P. holder, rather wood, metal, ceramic, etc. all were a standard width to accommodate a roll. You put in a new roll, it filled the holder, side to side, sometimes even a little difficult to pull off a length from a new roll due to the tight fit. Kept shrinking over the years by just 1/4 of an inch at a time, then by a full 1/2", has gradually been reduced to about 4 inch width by some brands. Nice to be retired, we have time to notice weights, widths, and volumes. Check out a HALF GALLON of ice cream these days, and the newest one I noticed, a "half gallon" of bleach is no longer a "half gallon", the math books really need to be "updated". How many ounces in a pound can of coffee now ? 14 ounces ? 12 ? 10 ?

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Costco's Kirkland branded coffee still comes in a 3 pound can, unlike most of the national brands.
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Have you measured the width of your toilet tissue lately ? A roll "used" to just fit into any standard T.P. holder, rather wood, metal, ceramic, etc. all were a standard width to accommodate a roll. You put in a new roll, it filled the holder, side to side, sometimes even a little difficult to pull off a length from a new roll due to the tight fit. Kept shrinking over the years by just 1/4 of an inch at a time, then by a full 1/2", has gradually been reduced to about 4 inch width by some brands. Nice to be retired, we have time to notice weights, widths, and volumes. Check out a HALF GALLON of ice cream these days, and the newest one I noticed, a "half gallon" of bleach is no longer a "half gallon", the math books really need to be "updated". How many ounces in a pound can of coffee now ? 14 ounces ? 12 ? 10 ?
Maybe it's because people's butts are getting smaller? Just kidding.
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Have you measured the width of your toilet tissue lately ? A roll "used" to just fit into any standard T.P. holder, rather wood, metal, ceramic, etc. all were a standard width to accommodate a roll. You put in a new roll, it filled the holder, side to side, sometimes even a little difficult to pull off a length from a new roll due to the tight fit. Kept shrinking over the years by just 1/4 of an inch at a time, then by a full 1/2", has gradually been reduced to about 4 inch width by some brands. Nice to be retired, we have time to notice weights, widths, and volumes...
And here I thought the TP issue had been thoroughly covered.
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Maybe it's because people's butts are getting smaller? Just kidding.
That is funny!
Butt's are not getting smaller, but many are getting tighter.
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Robby....wait for Publix to have a buy one get one sale on your favorite cookies
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As a positive, the egg prices seem to have come down to a much more reasonable range.
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As a positive, the egg prices seem to have come down to a much more reasonable range.
Milk has come down as well.
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If you boycott these insane product increases and shrinkages, they will be forced to rethink what they are doing
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