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kiwiduncan
Joined: 18 Jun 2007
Location: New Zealand
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 Posted: Sun Jun 08, 2008 5:42 am Post subject: Annoying Korean packaging rip-offs |
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It's bloody annoying how deceptively large the packaging for various Korean food products can be. I think you'll see more of this in the future - as food prices continue to rise they'll keep the packets the same size but reduce that actual amount of food. I know they've done this with YeonYangGang in the last couple of years.
In New Zealand I am sure there would be laws against this. |
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victorology
Joined: 10 Sep 2007
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| Posted: Sun Jun 08, 2008 5:50 am Post subject: |
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| They do the same thing in America. Cereal manufacturers are especially notorious for it. They keep the big box to maintain shelf space but reduce contents. |
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nautilus
Joined: 26 Nov 2005
Location: Je jump, Tu jump, oui jump!
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| Posted: Sun Jun 08, 2008 5:56 am Post subject: |
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| victorology wrote: |
| They do the same thing in America. Cereal manufacturers are especially notorious for it. They keep the big box to maintain shelf space but reduce contents. |
Cereal is the worst.
U buy a jumbo pack only to find the bag is inflated with air and little else. |
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Stormy
Joined: 10 Jan 2008
Location: Here & there
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| Posted: Sun Jun 08, 2008 6:05 am Post subject: |
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| Same with chips. You buy a decent sized packet of the old S & V to find it's about 1/5 filled with chips & the rest is just good smelling air. |
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Young FRANKenstein
Joined: 02 Oct 2006
Location: Castle Frankenstein (that's FRONKensteen)
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| Posted: Sun Jun 08, 2008 7:52 am Post subject: Re: Annoying Korean packaging rip-offs |
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| kiwiduncan wrote: |
| It's bloody annoying how deceptively large the packaging for various Korean food products can be.. |
It worse back home. If they increase the price on something, they have to tell you. so what do they do instead? Keep the price the same, but make the product smaller. Loophole for them, less bang for the buck for you. |
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samd
Joined: 03 Jan 2007
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| Posted: Sun Jun 08, 2008 8:16 am Post subject: |
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Ice creams seem to have gotten smaller and gone up to 700won recently  |
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madoka
Joined: 27 Mar 2008
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| Posted: Sun Jun 08, 2008 8:19 am Post subject: |
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There actually are US laws that regulate just how much free space is allowed in a package. I worked briefly on such a case about 12 years ago. The problem is that most government attorneys were not interested in pursuing such cases, so California attorneys depended on a private attorney general statute (section 17200) to do it themselves.
Here's a particularly crappy package:
http://www.tabloidcolumn.com/packaging-scams.html |
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bassexpander
Joined: 13 Sep 2007
Location: Someplace you'd rather be.
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| Posted: Sun Jun 08, 2008 2:05 pm Post subject: |
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I simply stop purchasing the product.
I stopped buying Dove chocolate, and got disgusted with the Canadian candy bar "Mr. Big" for doing the same thing (it is substantially thinner than before).
I'm sure they'll eventually start to see sales take a hit when people get angry and stop buying. The trick, however, is to come out and say the product is 20% larger (after shrinking it down), but at a 30% price increase over what it originally was for the same size to begin with. |
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gangpae
Joined: 03 Sep 2007
Location: Busan
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| Posted: Sun Jun 08, 2008 2:12 pm Post subject: |
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| 'Mr. Big' is Canadian? What is your point dude? |
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crazy_arcade
Joined: 05 Nov 2006
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| Posted: Sun Jun 08, 2008 2:12 pm Post subject: |
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| FYI: that dove chocolate is a Chinese product. |
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Mr. Pink
Joined: 21 Oct 2003
Location: China
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| Posted: Sun Jun 08, 2008 3:16 pm Post subject: |
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| gangpae wrote: |
| 'Mr. Big' is Canadian? What is your point dude? |
Probably that it is one of the few Canadian snacks sold in Korea and that scamming customers isn't something localized to the American confectionery companies. |
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aarontendo
Joined: 08 Feb 2006
Location: Daegu-ish
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| Posted: Sun Jun 08, 2008 3:37 pm Post subject: |
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| gangpae wrote: |
| 'Mr. Big' is Canadian? What is your point dude? |
He was pointing out that it was Canadian because the title of the thread sorta implies that it's only Korean products that are like this.
Go eat your Kraft Dinner and ask your mom to finish sewing the maple leaf on your backpack now.
**edited to get rid of jackass comment**
**edited again because every good thing comes in 4's**
Last edited by aarontendo on Sun Jun 08, 2008 6:20 pm; edited 4 times in total |
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squexx
Joined: 24 Mar 2008
Location: Korea
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| Posted: Sun Jun 08, 2008 6:04 pm Post subject: |
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| bassexpander wrote: |
I simply stop purchasing the product.
I stopped buying Dove chocolate, and got disgusted with the Canadian candy bar "Mr. Big" for doing the same thing (it is substantially thinner than before).
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Yep, them damn sneaky Canooks'll do it every time!  |
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bassexpander
Joined: 13 Sep 2007
Location: Someplace you'd rather be.
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| Posted: Sun Jun 08, 2008 6:18 pm Post subject: |
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"Mr. Big" is no longer "Mr. Big."
It's now "Mr. Skinny." |
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mrsquirrel
Joined: 13 Dec 2006
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| Posted: Sun Jun 08, 2008 6:55 pm Post subject: |
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| bassexpander wrote: |
"Mr. Big" is no longer "Mr. Big."
It's now "Mr. Skinny." |
As will you be if you don't chomp down on that sugary goodness. |
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