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<\/a>It’s been a while since I looked at\u00a0one closely.<\/p>\nThe white stuff has shrunk.
\nA lot.<\/p>\n
This is what the Oreo looked like before I ate it.<\/p>\n
The filling is the reason I like Oreos in the first place.
\nThere’s hardly any.<\/p>\n
There’s certainly not enough left for me to want to buy them again.<\/p>\n
If you can’t pull them apart and lick the stuff – why bother?<\/p>\n
I’m not saying this is the case here, but making things smaller is the latest great idea from most companies.<\/p>\n
Here’s the logic, as\u00a0I have heard it:<\/p>\n
It’s costing more to make stuff, like cookies.<\/p>\n
So, what they do is make things a bit smaller, or put less in the package, so they don’t have to raise the price.<\/p>\n
Supposedly the idea is we won’t want to pay a 50-cents increase for\u00a0a dozen pieces of something, but we’re willing to pay the same old price for only\u00a0ten pieces.<\/p>\n
How messed up is that?<\/p>\n
Sure, salaries and benefit costs go up.
\nRaw material is more expensive.<\/p>\n
Things are going to go up.<\/p>\n
My mother bought a new Chevy when I was a kid for $5,000.<\/p>\n
I bought a new Jeep last year for $32,000.<\/p>\n
No one was selling a $5,000 car with only 3 wheels, no seats and a rubber-band motor to keep the price the same.<\/p>\n
If Oreo, or anyone, is going to make a product worse in order to keep its customers, they’re like a dog sniffing at the wrong hydrant.<\/p>\n
When any product is no longer what we thought we were buying then we stop buying and go elsewhere.<\/p>\n
That’s the logic they should be looking at.<\/p>\n