I once bought a scotch and coke at the pub paid $10 when I had a drink it was just coke I took it back and they said oh yeah sorry I forgot to put it in
@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.
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No, but I saw someone weighing frozen fish package and after it thawed she weighed again and it turned out that out of specified on package only 1/3 was fish the rest was ice, so she mostly paid for ice
@SW-User 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.
When I worked at a grocery store people from some weights and measures agency came in with their scale every so often and weighed random things. Anything that came up short had to be pulled from the shelves.
Check what is written on the box - Net weight means product plus the weight of the box. There are huge fines here if companies are knowningly dudding the consumer.
@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.
i started to measure the pizza diameter when ording one... they almost all lie. then again i also always calculate the diameter to price ratio and see which size actually gives me the mosst pizza
The yogurt carton says 5.3 ozs, yet when I weighed the yogurt itself, I had to scrape it to get close to 4 ozs. I also noticed my protein bars are a lot slimmer. We are being shortchanged.
I’ve been watching my weight and weighing my food portions meticulously since August, and I will say there are discrepancies from time to time - but nothing that seemingly outrageous like you had. Crazy times we are living in! Buyers beware!!!
@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.
@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.
heck no , but they are getting cheaper putting potatoes in the can of meat balls and gravy the cheapos so i gotta get em else where for just the meat balls in gravy , no freaking potatoes taking up room in the can , but mind you they cost like 5.49 $ a can
@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.
@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.