Besides the two I ate, two are missing in the middle.

  • some_designer_dude@lemmy.world
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    8 days ago

    Damn that’s egregious. Why not at least space them out evenly?! I guess by feeling the ends only, you assume they’re tightly packed in there?

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      They probably have a commercial photo with the tray partly pulled out showing just the first two and had to have packaging that reflected that.

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      8 days ago

      Maybe that plastic package costs less to make with only two spacers rather than between each set

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        8 days ago

        It’s just vacuum-pressed plastic over a mould. I can’t imagine the mould’s price fluctuating depending on the shape. This seems like it’s specially designed to fool.

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          I’d say designed to fool.

          Mold price can change with more detail since you have to cut away more material from the form this is vacuumed over, with smaller cutters or EDM work. But at this scale it would not be significant enough cost compared to production and ingredient costs. We would be talking an increase in mold price that would be negligable in the overall costing of the project.

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    Hah this post reminded me - I noticed this on stupid AfterEight mints as well, they didnt update the size of packaging (box maybe slightly but the little papers are the same), so you can clearly see how much they reduced those mints (circa 1/4 iirc).

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      7 days ago

      The regular size Cliff bars are smaller, too. It annoys me that they put all the effort into shrinkflation, but fail to revise the nutrition label.