15 Examples Proving How Companies Make Us Feel Cheated. We’re Paying More and More for Less and Less
The customer is always right. Or they used to be. Today we are nothing but a prey falling to a number of cunning tricks. Manufacturers go to great lengths to reduce costs but it is us who pay the higher price in the end.
Greg
Feb 24, 2023 | updated: 2:15 PM EST, February 26, 2023
#15 Regular shampoo versus its XXL version
#14 The same container in terms of size but definitely smaller in terms of the content
#13 The new (on the left) does not necessarily mean 'better' than the old (on the right)
#12 One twist less for your dog
#11 If you didn't keep the old bottle, you probably would have never noticed the difference
#10 Both packets are alleged to contain 500 grams of chips, but the new ones (the green ones) have got lots of free... air! To share!
#9 After a month the box of garbage drawstring bags somehow shrank. The price, unfortunately, did not
#8 So did the family size of this orange juice cartons. Still, the price has not changed
#7 The shrinking disease also affects chocolate bars. Just take a look at the older version (at the bottom)
#6 The chips seem to be smaller too. And so are the tubes.The price? Some things never change!
#5 In 2014 Coca-Cola reduced the size of plastic bottles from 2 liters to 1.75 Of course in order to keep the price steady
#3 The packet is much lighter. The price is not
#1 It's getting more and more for some drinks to come in various volumes, still at the same price
BONUS IMAGE: Did you really think they keep piles of towels there?
Have you ever caught the food industry red-handed?