Tide detergent 200oz: 33% more*

[ponyo]

Originally posted by: mugs
Get Kirkland detergent, it's probably the same stuff.

Kirkland detergent is the only Kirland product that disappointed us. Clothes smelled terrible when washed with the stuff. It was so bad that I returned the detergent out of principle.

 

[Jeff7]

Originally posted by: 0roo0roo
http://consumerist.com/5033568...the-grocery-shrink-ray
http://consumerist.com/5027266...the-grocery-shrink-ray

and yea they also make the fill up lines inside the cap measuring cup confusing hoping people over fill.

I love the cat litter - "New and improved pouring spout!" Pay no attention to the smaller size behind the curtain.
The Similac can was classic too - the new canister is shallower, but wider, so it looks bigger.

Some of my engineering professors have said some "discourteous" things about marketing people.
I have had some similar thoughts of my own.

 

[LS21]

i always thought laundry detergents had the funniest labeling. though 2nd on the Kirkland stuff. costco FTD

 

[DomS]

do you think most people know that 200 is 33% more than 150 though?

 

[DomS]

my friend used to work at this store, they had a 2 for 10.00 sale on something....no one bought a thing......they changed it to 3 for 20.00 and they sold out of whatever it was in one weekend.

 

[halik]

Originally posted by: 0roo0roo
http://consumerist.com/5033568...the-grocery-shrink-ray
http://consumerist.com/5027266...the-grocery-shrink-ray

and yea they also make the fill up lines inside the cap measuring cup confusing hoping people over fill.

Brilliant... how else do you deal with 3% inflation and consumers that hate increasing prices?

 

[waggy]

Originally posted by: halik

Originally posted by: 0roo0roo
http://consumerist.com/5033568...the-grocery-shrink-ray
http://consumerist.com/5027266...the-grocery-shrink-ray

and yea they also make the fill up lines inside the cap measuring cup confusing hoping people over fill.

Brilliant... how else do you deal with 3% inflation and consumers that hate increasing prices?

this is what happens when gas prices shoot up. either jack up the prices or some special packaging.

 

[pyonir]

My mom. She see's 10 for $10. Gotta get 10! I tell her, mom, there's no minimum...you don't need to buy 10 to get them for a buck each. :roll:

 

[Zenmervolt]

Originally posted by: hanoverphist

Originally posted by: Modelworks
My favorite is the 2 for $1.28 sales when the original price was 64 cent each.
My dad was in the grocery business all his life, you wouldn't believe the things they do that actually make people buy more.

burger kings first few years of "combo meals" were actually more expensive than buying the parts separately. i used to tell them that every time i went to one (i knew the owner of a bunch of them in mesa) and wouldnt buy the combos until he finally changed the pricing to be an actual bargain.

At McDonald's around here, a 10-piece package of McNuggets is about $3.50. The 4-piece package is $1.00. I cannot for the life of me figure out how they ever manage to sell even a single 10-piece box.

ZV

 

[Jeff7]

Originally posted by: pyonir
My mom. She see's 10 for $10. Gotta get 10! I tell her, mom, there's no minimum...you don't need to buy 10 to get them for a buck each. :roll:

That's just it; some stores did, and perhaps still do, require the purchase of the full quantity to get the advertised price. (Whether or not it's a sale price is another matter entirely.)
They don't want to get just one, then wait in line at the register, and find out, "Sorry you have to buy 200,000 of these if you want the sale price." Then the cashier Tases you.

Good old marketing.
A good motto for marketing people: "A fool and his money are soon parted, and the sooner the better."

 

[mugs]

Originally posted by: pyonir
My mom. She see's 10 for $10. Gotta get 10! I tell her, mom, there's no minimum...you don't need to buy 10 to get them for a buck each. :roll:

On the other hand - if it's a good deal for 1, it's a good deal for 10 as long as it won't expire before you use it.

 

[Wreckem]

Originally posted by: waggy

Originally posted by: ElFenix
i like how they rate detergent by number of loads.

i then like how the cap is 3x larger than the recommended amount, so that anyone who doesn't look for line number 2 uses all that detergent in half or less the number of loads.

I hate that.

the cup needed for my detergent is fricken huge. but there is a line (have to really look to even see it) that is like 1/3 of the way up.

though if you actually read the packaging it says where the line is.


i remember like 15years or so ago. KFC changed the chicken breast. they said it was 33% larger. well yeah it is but its like 70% bone now where it used to be like 5% bone. you used to get a lot more meat on the breast.

I dont know where you eat, but chicken parts have been getting larger. The size of breasts has increaded due to hormones. Ive seen breats(single split breat) close to the size of footballs, and legs the size of turkey legs. Now that is the extreme case, but the size of chicken parts have gotten bigger over the past 15 years.

 

[zeruty]

Originally posted by: Wreckem

The size of breasts has increaded...

Can't complain about that.

 

[zeruty]

Originally posted by: mugs

Originally posted by: pyonir
My mom. She see's 10 for $10. Gotta get 10! I tell her, mom, there's no minimum...you don't need to buy 10 to get them for a buck each. :roll:

On the other hand - if it's a good deal for 1, it's a good deal for 10 as long as it won't expire before you use it.

I find it amusing when 1/3 of the 10 for 10 items cost $1 anyways...

 

[BoomerD]

First, 200 oz IS 33% more than 150 oz., so what's wrong with that?

Next, it sounds like it's only a comparison of volume...just like shopping at Costco...buy bigger, make less trips to the store, MAYBE save a little. (have to actually compare the price per oz.)

Kirkland laundry detergent is ok...I use it as my primary laundry detergent. Cheaper than the "name brands," does a good job.

 

[zeruty]

I wonder how many people open up the bottle of laundry detergent they are going to purchase and fill it to the top from another bottle. Never done it but that thought occurred to me when I opened my last new bottle of laundry detergent and saw the amount of empty space in there.

 

[Rudee]

Yeah, and I'm sick of every manufacturer sticking green tea in their products because it's a popular buzz word lately. Especially in products which are not for consumption. There is hand lotion with added green tea in it. WTF?!?!

 

[0roo0roo]

Originally posted by: halik

Originally posted by: 0roo0roo
http://consumerist.com/5033568...the-grocery-shrink-ray
http://consumerist.com/5027266...the-grocery-shrink-ray

and yea they also make the fill up lines inside the cap measuring cup confusing hoping people over fill.

Brilliant... how else do you deal with 3% inflation and consumers that hate increasing prices?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008_baby_milk_scandal

and now even in regular milk
http://www.theaustralian.news....24378283-12335,00.html

 

[alkemyst]

Originally posted by: JS80

Originally posted by: JEDI
*than competitor's 150 oz :|

the "33% More" was prominently displayed on the front of the bottle.

then in alot smaller font was "than competitor's 150oz."

no shit sherlock. your also paying more because it's 33% bigger.

i didnt buy Tide out out of priciple.

Is the avg person doing the laundry this stupid?!

I think the avg person doesn't read it.

Is the avg marketing team this elitist that they think avg person would jizz their pants and buy their product because it's 33% bigger?

I never see the big box/containers at the grocery store, but at the warehouse stores these bigger packages are the same price as their smaller counterparts.

To me that is really getting more free.

The biggest value I have seen at the warehouse stores though is salsa. For some reason the same large container of it that goes for $7.50 to $8 at the grocery is only $4 at the warehouse...it used to be $3.50ish prior to the gas rates rising.

 

[alkemyst]

Originally posted by: pyonir
My mom. She see's 10 for $10. Gotta get 10! I tell her, mom, there's no minimum...you don't need to buy 10 to get them for a buck each. :roll:

well in the past in her day you did. Still some stores do have min. quantity.

Albertson's around here doesn't require a min.


Also back to detergent. I see in the future with logistics becoming more and more a problem that slowly all the fillers and pointless sudsing agents will be removed. I am not sure the exact numbers but probably over 75% of detergents are really non-essential ingredients. People love to scoop / put in large amounts and seeing all the bubbles or feel it's not going to clean well.

Now-a-days though the cost to store these boxes is more costly than the extra profits from fluffing the boxes.

 

[eits]

Originally posted by: JEDI
*than competitor's 150 oz :|

the "33% More" was prominently displayed on the front of the bottle.

then in alot smaller font was "than competitor's 150oz."

no shit sherlock. your also paying more because it's 33% bigger.

i didnt buy Tide out of priciple.


Is the avg person doing the laundry w/Tide this stupid?!

"you're"

get a brain moran

 

[BUTCH1]

Originally posted by: Wreckem

Originally posted by: waggy

Originally posted by: ElFenix
i like how they rate detergent by number of loads.

i then like how the cap is 3x larger than the recommended amount, so that anyone who doesn't look for line number 2 uses all that detergent in half or less the number of loads.

I hate that.

the cup needed for my detergent is fricken huge. but there is a line (have to really look to even see it) that is like 1/3 of the way up.

though if you actually read the packaging it says where the line is.


i remember like 15years or so ago. KFC changed the chicken breast. they said it was 33% larger. well yeah it is but its like 70% bone now where it used to be like 5% bone. you used to get a lot more meat on the breast.

I dont know where you eat, but chicken parts have been getting larger. The size of breasts has increaded due to hormones. Ive seen breats(single split breat) close to the size of footballs, and legs the size of turkey legs. Now that is the extreme case, but the size of chicken parts have gotten bigger over the past 15 years.

It is illegal to feed poultry hormones. Some producers have used this misconception by labeling their chicken "hormone free" when in fact no poultry produced today is fed hormones or steroids of any kind..

 

[MrBond]

Originally posted by: zeruty
I wonder how many people open up the bottle of laundry detergent they are going to purchase and fill it to the top from another bottle. Never done it but that thought occurred to me when I opened my last new bottle of laundry detergent and saw the amount of empty space in there.

There's so much headspace because the laundry detergent foams up when they fill it. If you gradually pour it in it's not too bad, but they're not gradually filling them in production. During shipping all the bubbles break and it looks like you have a bottle that isn't full.

Antifreeze is the same way.

 

[sao123]

Originally posted by: JEDI
*than competitor's 150 oz :|

the "33% More" was prominently displayed on the front of the bottle.

then in alot smaller font was "than competitor's 150oz."

no shit sherlock. your also paying more because it's 33% bigger.

i didnt buy Tide out of priciple.


Is the avg person doing the laundry w/Tide this stupid?!

um... it didnt say 33% more FREE so dunno what you were expecting...

 

[MotionMan]

Originally posted by: hanoverphist

Originally posted by: Modelworks
My favorite is the 2 for $1.28 sales when the original price was 64 cent each.
My dad was in the grocery business all his life, you wouldn't believe the things they do that actually make people buy more.

burger kings first few years of "combo meals" were actually more expensive than buying the parts separately. i used to tell them that every time i went to one (i knew the owner of a bunch of them in mesa) and wouldnt buy the combos until he finally changed the pricing to be an actual bargain.

The In 'n Out Burger "meals" cost exactly the same as buying them separately.

MotionMan