@ExtremeNext Could it be that he was mixing a lot of drinks and just got distracted?

@cherokeepatti maybe but if you can't do your job you shouldn't have it

@ExtremeNext I might try that if I ever start drinking again maybe they'll give me to hits of scotch.

@TheOneyouwerewarnedabout heard of a woman here decades ago if she bought anything like Tylenol or other meds or multiples of things she would count every one when she got home. Sometimes she would be short-changed and would go back to the store and get a refund or another package and count that one out. I have noticed the size of eggs that were supposed to be the very same size sometimes vary by brand. I buy large size and a dozen eggs are supposed to weigh a certain amount of weight but if you see them marked large and looking a size smaller they will fall short on weight.

@InHeaven I think they can get by with the water/ice weight though. Chickens have water injected in them or “broth” and that raises their weight.

@InHeaven I have bought frozen pollock and thawed out some and squeezed one dry and it wasn’t half the weight it was to begin with, mostly water. And pollock is a cheap fish too.

@cherokeepatti pizza franchises arent really a thing here.. its mostly family businesses from turkey etc.

@Strawberrry better food then I’m sure.

@cherokeepatti really hit and miss... some are great others are terrible...

@cherokeepatti Buy another box, do not open.
Just in case the product is removed once you make initial contact. Who were you planning to send your e-mail to?
Contact the regulatory body and ask them to investigate.
Only by doing this can something be done about the company.

@Gusman I believe if Walmart gets enough e-mails they’ll stop this crap. They don’t like lawsuits or negative e-mails. And it may not even be just their line of products, it could be an entire industry doing it.

Net weight should just be the weight of the product. @Gusman

@Ambroseguy80 for all the boxed pasta that is filled and trucked to stores in a single day those shorted amounts, even small amounts, will add up to a huge amount.

@cherokeepatti Buy the store brand, because you can blame the cheating on the store.

@4meAndyou I would love to find a local independent consumer agency that would be willing to investigate the stores in this area and had scales that had been calibrated and accurate. Because these stores can twist it around and say that kitchen scales are not accurate. Their produce scales are supposed to be calibrated and every once in a while someone comes in to check to make sure. But the increments on ounces is harder to measure exactly than a smaller scale. If I had calibration weights and a digital kitchen scale it would be good.

@cherokeepatti Try going to the post office and ask if they will weigh the box as a favor to you.

@RadiantRuby not just unfair, the calorie and nutrition counts for the package of food may be important to the consumers who buy it and also it can affect a recipe if they put a certain amount on the package and you buy it and use it thinking it’s the correct amount.

@Dumbman i have done that with carrots and found they usually go over the 16 ounces that is marked on the package.

@Lostpoet Not supposed to include the weight of the packaging in the Net Weight.

@Azlotto butcher putting his thumb on the scale was a real thing. I don’t know how common it was but it happened.

@SW-User Greed and I think it’ll get worse. When the Covid thing first started people were grabbing up basic pantry foods to stock up on so the shelves got wiped bare. No one questioned it. And now with the prices rising so much and projected shortages of grains and other staples I think it’ll be more common.

@cherokeepatti yeah, this is terrible