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Shhhh! It’s a secret!
I cant decide if this is mildly infuriating or very infuriating. Wow, the fact someone thought this was a good idea. No, fill the goddamn thing. Nobody needs a quarter amount of deodorant. What a waste of packaging.
Dollar stores
The fact that someone thought this was a good idea is not the problem.
If someone else bought this more than once, and also didn’t bother to call the company seven shades of utter cunts on social media, they’re the problem
it’s a lot easier for a company to change their behavior than it is to get everyone buying deodorant to be on the same page. this is why things like the FDA exist, for example
You get 45 grams according to the package. It’s more cost effective for them to just put it in the same packaging as the regular sized and just change the label rather than shut down and change the production line to accommodate the smaller size.
I get that, but from an environmental point of view, this is an absolute travesty.
I guess that could go for deodorant overall. It’s not a very necessary product.
Environment problems are only affected by necessary products? If people use it, then it is making pollution
Unnecessary products create unnecessary environmental problems… Didn’t think that needed clarifying lol
Then there are unnecessary products creating more pollution and less pollution
Big if true.
And of course the fact this obviously creates the illusion there’s more product and therefore can trick customers it’s just a happy accident, right?
Well, by a trully, utterly AMAZING coincidence…
They still have to ship the empty packaging. You have to wonder if it’s really worth it to the company to package and ship air. The missing deodorant gel probably costs pennies to manufacture.
That doesn’t change the fact its misleading. Not everyone walks around with a god damn scale, knows the average weights of deodorant off the top of their head. The average person is going to look at this and assume its full and that’s how the manufacturer wants it.
ackshually if you get out your scales and do a little homework…
no. fuck you.
So you, I dunno, read the label where it shows the net weight, and compare it to other similar products nearby on the same shelf? Hell, most store shelf pricing has price per unit on it now, so you can compare prices pretty directly. Yeah, I get that it’s not completely consistent where that’s implemented, but it’s far and away better than the days of “price gun sticker on item and that’s it.”
Which boils down to ‘make sure you look hard to see how they are trying to trick you’
And, in that scenario…you blame the people who don’t catch the trick as opposed to the corporation trying to trick people.
I certainly do not do that. Who has time to inspect every item they buy nowadays? Ridiculous.
Literally everyone has the time…
Uh, that’s incorrect. When you’re buying groceries for your family, getting household essentials, cleaning supplies, etc, you’re going to be in and out because you have to get home to make dinner and get ready for work the next day.
Then get scammed I guess…it takes literal seconds to to read things.
The time it took you to reply on your addiction device could be spend actually being productive by ensuing you aren’t being scammed at stores.
But when you’re buying 40 things? Have other stuff to do? You are being incredibly naive
Real asshole design would have been to use an opaque container so you couldn’t see that you were being ripped off.
I just got a new stick of Old Spice, and it’s solid red. Wondering how much i’m getting from it now.
Update: happy to say that more than 3/4 of the tube is filled. The rest had protective plastic in it, but i’ll let it slide
The net weight is supposed to be accurate and is its own proof if they screw it up. The real problem is knowing that exact container may have 1.6 oz or 3oz of content and you need to notice which
Secret’s small enough for a 3-1-1 bag but made to rip you off through shrinkflation.
that’s terrible
Well they are sold by weight so you know what you’re getting if you pay attention.
I’ve switched to spray deodorant, which I’m sure hides just as much shrinkflation but seems more efficient.
The ones I see online are 73 grams in the same container. Where was this purchased? And yes of course they ought to have put it in a squatty travel sized container. But this one is not the standard amount.
The great irony is putting it in a squatty travel sized container is probably more expensive, and doesn’t save nearly as much plastic as you would think.
Having to set up an entirely new production line just to make smaller containers, or retooling your existing production, would likely incur a significant cost.
On the plastic front, the overwhelming majority of plastic in something like that deodorant is in the base, lid, and “pusher” system. Making it shorter only removes a small section of the least-plastic-dense portion of the whole thing.
They could make a smaller one, but the only real benefit would be show & portability, and it would probably come at a premium per ounce
Get salt sticks. They last for years.
My ex gave me a Norwex deodorant stick years ago. It works pretty dang good.
It’s cheaper to put less product in the same packaging than it is to put less product in different packaging. You are paying for the product, and I believe there is a “net wt” shown. That’s (supposed to be) for the product alone without the packaging. If you were to buy a greater amount of product in the same packaging, it would cost more, and you would complain about that instead.
Same with chips (crisps if you’re outside of FreedomLand). The extra space in the bag is to prevent crushing, and is often filled with nitrogen or some other relatively inert gas to extend freshness. The product is sold by weight of the product.
In this case, it’s deceptive. If the packaging used to contain more product, you could reasonably assume the same package would contain the same amount of product. This is shrinkflation. If you’re going to raise prices, just do it. Don’t try and trick people, because many will notice and get pissed off.
Are you seriously implying that you check the net weight of every single product you ever purchase, especially ones You’ve purchased regularly in the past?
And how are you even supposed to know how many uses that amount corresponds to?
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You are demonstrating willful ignorance by conflating my previous two completely separate paragraphs.
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TBH I’ve never used up a deodorant before I lost it somehow, but I would like less plastic waste.
You may have a pretty severe case of something like ADHD going on. I don’t me an this to be a jerk. If you lose things so much that you have literally never finished a thing of deodorant, you’ve certainly lost many other important things in your life.
Lmao, they’ve moved on from self diagnosis to armchair psychiatrics. Fuck off, mate. You’ve insulted me, an entire field of professionals backed by science, and yourself.
Amazing that someone can project so hard. Wow. My comment should not elicit such a violent response. You really need to make a self assessment and figure out why you felt the need to attack.
