They’re careful to make sure the bottle still looks the same from the front, but from the side you can see the difference.
AnotherDirtyAnglo ( @AnotherDirtyAnglo@lemmy.ca ) 28•4 months agoGo to your local restaurant supply place and go buy the 1 gallon jug instead for half the price.
PraiseTheSoup ( @PraiseTheSoup@lemm.ee ) 11•4 months agoGreat idea, I’ll just drive 4 hours to my local restaurant supply store for some dish soap.
AnotherDirtyAnglo ( @AnotherDirtyAnglo@lemmy.ca ) 2•4 months agoNot our fault you live in the middle of nowhere, dummy.
_MusicJunkie ( @_MusicJunkie@beehaw.org ) 2•4 months agoSounds even better if you don’t have a car like me.
CanadianCorhen ( @CanadianCorhen@lemmy.ca ) 22•4 months agoReally need a law that if the amount, or recipie changes it is notified on the packaging for… 3 months?
goatmeal ( @goatmeal@midwest.social ) 9•4 months agoMan that would be great but you know these companies are just gonna claim its an entirely different product to get around that
I feel like if we had an independent crowd sourced site or something to track these it would have better visibility
BakedCatboy ( @BakedCatboy@lemmy.ml ) English5•4 months agoI feel like openfoodfacts could be relevant to that - there are a lot of non-food grocery items tracked like dish soap. But yeah the main challenge would be tracking sku changes since openfoodfacts is based on barcodes. But the openfoodfacts database would be a good starting point since it has lots of data like container size and stuff.
One possible way to track it would be to show a banner on any item that has had a recent quantity change. If a new sku is introduced, they could track when one product code replaces another, and show a similar warning (or if that is too hard to track, a warning when a sku is newer than x months would alert you so that you don’t mistake it for that product you’ve regularly bought for years).
Either way I’m not sure how it would be made low friction enough to be practical since openfoodfacts requires you to scan each items barcode to see details, unless you had like AR glasses that auto scanned products and showed warnings from openfoodfacts.
CanadianCorhen ( @CanadianCorhen@lemmy.ca ) 4•4 months agoI agree that companies would try to get around it, but that’s what government agencies are for, and the fact they will try and Weasle out of it doesn’t mean we shouldn’t try
Calavera ( @calavera@lemm.ee ) 5•4 months agoI remember something like that happened for toilet papers in Brazil many years ago. Many brands reduced the roll length and there were an outcry among the people. In the end a law was created to do exactly that what you said, but this didn’t stopped companies to continue shrinking products
Here is an example with the warning in yellow
Swarfega ( @Swarfega@lemm.ee ) English12•4 months agoIn a world where we should be using less packaging this sort of practice just increases more waste.
kent_eh ( @kent_eh@lemmy.ca ) English7•4 months agoOnce again demonstrating that corporations don’t give a fuck about anything except constantly increasing their profit.
The customer doesn’t matter. The survival of the planet doesn’t matter.
As long as profit increases every single quarter the world could burn for all they care.
BCsven ( @BCsven@lemmy.ca ) 1•4 months agoIn general I agree this is a true statement, but for this particular bottle it is blow molded from the same preform and so weather they blow the shape narrow or wider it is same amount of plastic. But you obviously buy more bottles due to less soap.
Swarfega ( @Swarfega@lemm.ee ) English3•4 months agoYes. My point was you now need to buy more frequently. So producing more wastage.
Wahots ( @Wahots@pawb.social ) 8•4 months agoSame thing happened to my deodorant. I looked at the shelves recently, and ALL the deodorant was now the same redesign, down to the gram.
GrindingGears ( @GrindingGears@lemmy.ca ) 5•4 months agoI’m convinced that theres actually like 4mm of deodorant in these friggin tubes anymore. I just bought my deodorant, and it’s already showing the bottom.
Wahots ( @Wahots@pawb.social ) 2•4 months agoI’m 70% sure they made the deodorant stick shorter on the inside too. It seems to run out way faster now. Same bottle, much more single use plastic thrown in the landfill…
nieceandtows ( @nieceandtows@programming.dev ) 7•4 months agoSeventh generation that we use went down from 25oz to 19oz.