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liam_laddie

(1,321 posts)
28. Actually LESS than half!
Tue Nov 8, 2016, 11:33 AM
Nov 2016

Original bar=400g. New bar=150g. That's less than 40% of the original.
This is similar to how Mondelez ruined the Red Oval Farms Stoned Wheat Crackers (a Canadian product widely available in the USA) a couple years back. Were excellent crackers, the best of the type. Mondelez buys the brand, substitutes their truly awful Nabisco saltine recipe and does NOT revise the package graphics. I call that pure fraud! A fine product becomes pure crap!
The best replacement I've found is The Original Mariner Biscuit Company Stoned Wheat Original Crackers, made in Hingham, MA; it's a part of Venus Wafers, Inc.
The website "www.consumeraffairs.com" has compiled customer complaints about a wide range of products, worth checking out if you're curious about a change in a favorite product. Foods, appliances, ISP's, and so on.

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Did the same thing to Jimmy Dean sausages.... My Pet Goat Nov 2016 #1
Well, that was entertaining. progressoid Nov 2016 #25
600 pounds of men cyberswede Nov 2016 #35
Its like getting a half or box of cereal.... Historic NY Nov 2016 #2
Actually LESS than half! liam_laddie Nov 2016 #28
That is not the decrease. SomethingNew Nov 2016 #32
It's so damn obvious dalton99 Nov 2016 #3
Oh shit this is a really big deal! snooper2 Nov 2016 #4
MAKE TOBERONE GREAT AGAIN!! progressoid Nov 2016 #22
This is an abomination. Brickbat Nov 2016 #6
^this nt cyberswede Nov 2016 #36
If they had done it incrementally (like every other candy bar), most people wouldn't have noticed. progressoid Nov 2016 #26
Plus it messes with an iconic shape matt819 Nov 2016 #27
As Proctor and Bergman said in 1973: Doc_Technical Nov 2016 #31
bastids trof Nov 2016 #33
That stuff is gross, anyway. ronnie624 Nov 2016 #34
Man up and raise the price, Ya Greedy Fucks. Iggo Nov 2016 #39
That is unsavory but totally normal business practice. Weight has to be correct, is all. Hekate Nov 2016 #40
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