canned tuna?
Gary
Not only has canned tuna gone up in price this past year....it now comes in
5oz cans. I could have sworn they used to be 6oz cans.
I just looked through my old 1979 copy of the "Betty Crocker Cookbook" and
they have several recipes using canned tuna. All of them called for a 6.5oz
can of tuna! I knew it! They have secretly reduced the can size over the
years.
I noticed that same thing many years ago with candy bars.
Jerry Avins
It's not secret; the weight is on the can. Canned tuna at Trader Joe's
is still 6.5 oz.
Jerry
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price of gasoline went up several years ago. They saw an opportunity to
raise the price of their product and use the increase of shipping their
goods on the trucking industry as their reason. The trucking industry
charges by weight not volume.
John
Wayne Boatwright
And before that they used to be 7 oz. cans.
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jalapeno
> It's not secret; the weight is on the can. Canned tuna at Trader Joe's
> is still 6.5 oz.
To my surprise, Whole Foods sells its 365 brand solid white
albacore in 6 ounce cans for $1.50, which isn't too bad
considering that the best price I can find at Safeway. et
al is $1.00 for a 5 ounce can when it is occasionally on
sale, but much higher when it is not on sale.
I priced solid white at TJ's this past weekend. I'm pretty
sure it was $1.49 for a 5 ounce can.
RonzNews
Tuna is not the only item like that. Everyone is doing it rather than raise
prices. Soap used to be 4.5 oz bars. They are now 4 oz. Ice cream used to
be one gallon. They are now 1.75 liters. I'm sure there are lots of other
examples.
Just my 2 cents...
...Ron
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"Jerry Avins" <j...@ieee.org> wrote in message
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Jerry Avins
> Hi Folks,
>
> Tuna is not the only item like that. Everyone is doing it rather than
> raise prices. Soap used to be 4.5 oz bars. They are now 4 oz. Ice
> cream used to be one gallon. They are now 1.75 liters. I'm sure there
> are lots of other examples.
>
> Just my 2 cents...
It's a lot more than $.02, Ron. Coffee used to be a pound.
Chemo the Clown
> RonzNews wrote:
> > Hi Folks,
>
> > Tuna is not the only item like that. Everyone is doing it rather than
> > raise prices. Soap used to be 4.5 oz bars. They are now 4 oz. Ice
> > cream used to be one gallon. They are now 1.75 liters. I'm sure there
> > are lots of other examples.
>
> > Just my 2 cents...
>
> It's a lot more than $.02, Ron. Coffee used to be a pound.
>
> Jerry
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> Engineering is the art of making what you want from things you can get.
I still buy coffee by the pound. Oh, you must be buying like Folgers
or something else already ground and packaged?
Jerry Avins
I buy beans. One good brand comes in pound bags, another in less. I use
a burr mill that I rescued and rebuilt.
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Stormmmee
sizes sold for different methods of selling so its a pita when you think yu
are getting a good deal as a seller and it arrives and is smaller than what
you are currently selling, Lee
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"Gary" <g.ma...@worldnet.att.net> wrote in message
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Jerry Avins
> yah, they make the wrappers bigger, and the candy bars smaller.
> INSANE!
The cereal makers have been doing that for years. A box shaped like a
book uses a lot more cardboard for what it holds than something
squatter. But it looks a lot bigger and has more room for gimmicks to
attract the customer's eye.
Stormmmee
products arrived in the packagage that is totally sealed with the tabs on
the end, the folded paper wrappers were so much easier to get to vend these
new ones are a royal pain... remember when you buy something from a ending
machine, even if it gets put in right, the packaging can screw the whole
thing up, Lee
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"Gigglz" <nut...@nuthin.com> wrote in message
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> yah, they make the wrappers bigger, and the candy bars smaller.
> INSANE!
>
> giggz
Stormmmee
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"Gigglz" <nut...@nuthin.com> wrote in message
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> hey, our hershey bars still have the foil. i guess that means we are
> backwards here. hehehehe
Gary
>
> HA! Just as I suspected! Has anyone else noticed this?
>
> Not only has canned tuna gone up in price this past year....it now comes in
> 5oz cans. I could have sworn they used to be 6oz cans.
>
> I just looked through my old 1979 copy of the "Betty Crocker Cookbook" and
> they have several recipes using canned tuna. All of them called for a 6.5oz
> can of tuna! I knew it! They have secretly reduced the can size over the
> years.
Well.....paybacks this week, folks. Starkist tuna is on sale for 50 cents
per can until next Wednesday. I plan to stock up as I do use it often
enough. I bought 4 cans today and will be back there tomorrow and get
more. I haven't seen the price this low in a long, long time.
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Stormmee
guy who fills it muttering obscenties its because it was probably put in
right... but got stuck anywya. Lee
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"Gigglz" <nut...@nuthin.com> wrote in message
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> ha, maybe so!