XPost: ott.general 
 From: info@coghlan.ca 
  
 Lynn wrote: 
  
 >The same thing happened with ground coffee at the beginning of the 1990s. 
 >The vacuum-packed coffee was 369 grans at that point, then they made the 
 >package to a 300 gram standard package size yet the price stayed the same or 
 >increased. 
 > 
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 Yeah, that's what I'm wondering with the single-serving yogurt. 
  
 I'd really like to find out if they were larger than 100g before the new 
 labeling. 
  
 >Who did the coffee companies think they were fooling anyhow?  When customer 
 >refuse to buy their product, they'll have to rethink their greedy 
 >strategies.  I hate it when companies do that because it insults my 
 >intelligence.  Why not just keep the price the same but raise the price 
 >because at least it's more honest that way. 
 > 
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 Want another example of price-creep?  Check out those Glad large kitchen 
 bags.  I'm pretty sure they were about $4 last time I bought some, but 
 the other day I saw them at Loblaws for over $6! 
  
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 >"Patrick Coghlan"  wrote in message 
 >news:43fa1bfc$0$1847$c3e8da3@news.astraweb.com... 
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 >>Is it just my perception, or did Danone pull a fast one and shrink the 
 >>size of the containers when they came out with the new packaging? 
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 >>They say 100g on the package.  Anyone have an old container kicking 
 >>around? 
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