A half full tin, where is the rest of the product?
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Half empty?
Sometimes you don't get as much for your money as you might think. When you buy a product in the shops, you kind of expect the container to be full of whatever it is that you bought, don't you?
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How many other people, like me get really fed-up with opening a box or tin, only to find it is only just over half full? Also, what is with the plastic packaging on products these days?
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| 13-10-2009 | To the people who say that boxes of washing powder etc are only 3/4 full because the contents settle after time, then why can't the manufacturer's let it settle and then top it up????
Why are supermarkets so big? To hold all the empty space inside food packaging. | cut down on shopping |
| 13-10-2009 | Yes, I've been noticing it for a long time. It's a way of tricking you into thinking you are buying something large. When you open it up, it's mostly empty space inside. Bags of crisps pumped full of air to make them appear full, but only 1/3 of the space contains crisps. | cut down on shopping |
| 29-5-2009 | What you say is wrong. If you say that the company should most look after opening the cannisters easily, then it's ok. While the packaging is of vital importance in transportation. etc. So they have to take care that there should not be any wastage due to spillage, | junkie |
| 26-5-2009 | Has anybody else noticed that all of the soap powder manufacturers have dropped the boxes down from 1 KG to 680g ? they did it more or less overnight and all of the new boxes are the same size so that when you look along the shelf you don't go "hey thats smaller than that one" the boxe...more | hello from me |
| 09-8-2008 | There's too much plastic packaging these days and its about time we returned to the old ways before we use up all our natural resources. When was the last time you walked down the road and saw bottles of milk on the doorstep? All gone? Probably stolen by those thieving council estate trash! | Jane |
| 15-12-2007 | why are you all still buying products like this then? Tell the manufactuer that you want less packaging or at least it must be from a recycled product. When I buy toothpaste, after buying it, I send the box back to the manufactuer in an un-stamped enveloppe just to piss the post boy off. or with j...more | bristol moaner number 1 |
| 30-8-2007 | To address a point made in the original gripe regarding items such as soap powder, drinking chocolate and gravy granules. The reason that the 'pot' is only three quarters full when you open it is that the contents have settled during storage. When these pots are filled by machine they contai...more | Freddie |
| 30-8-2007 | I had lunch today (Wednesday) with my daughter in law at Tesco in Camberley, and we both had a jacket potato, but were surprised to find that the tuna and coleslaw were in separate CONTAINTERNS WITH LIDS. I thought it was Tesco's policy to reduce packaging due to this reason, we did not enjoy o...more | Mrs I. Jarman |
| 24-5-2007 | I do find it ridiculous when I buy a box of cakes to find that they're in a cardboard box, covered in plastic, then in a plastic tray, THEN in a silver foil cake case.
4 pieces of packaging for one tiny kiplings bakewell?!
Humans are doomed. | yoyo |
| 03-9-2006 | I think that packaging should be fully recyclable, including as much free space as necessary when inflated with a lightweight gas to render the product lighter than air. Deliveries could be arranged like netted balloons at a funfair, lead by robot driven blimps, using a combination of drifting on th...more | DOG Ar*£ Backwards |
| 10-8-2006 | I can see what is being said about dry products but manufacturers do try and make their products look like more.I recently bought a well known brand of Ice cream cone in a box of eight.The foil wrapping around the outside had a circular disk at the top which was about three quaters of an inch above ...more | Bob Lynch |
| 09-8-2006 | The same happens here in Europe as well. Especially the enviromental questions should be though of while thinking of the packaging. At least there is some choice here in Finland and it is service desks. Trying to use grossery strores that have servise and buy all the food products wrapped in paper. | Teemu |
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