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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/27121839
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Average American moment
I mean I would hardly call this anything less than bog standard inflation … I also prefer the taller skinner cans, but it does not seem like there is a trick, it is just normal inflation with a change to make people less likely to yell
At an 2x markup it’s more than that imo, it’s price gouging… Unless they were selling them for a loss for some time, which I doubt
Inflation is, in part, the capitalists raising the prices without changing the product, in many ways they are driving, and set the pase of inflation
The Yakubians are using their tricknology to create trickflation.
Trickubians
I have noticed that in metric, those tall ones contain just a bit less. I don’t know if there’s variation in how tall they come, but in metric it’s in the hundreds of millilitres rather than tens of whatever oz is
Bonus: extra aluminium waste
Yeah, I never really understood those tall cans. Could it be a marketing thing?
It is. Taller = More for many people. When we are children, we actually think tall and thin = more than short and wide. We lack the logical skill to figure out that 2 glasses of such shapes hold equal volumes of water.
Even though this skill develops later in life, many people are still subconsciously wired to think tall = more. Therefore tall = better.
There’s other things at play here, like stacking more cans per shelf, which makes it look like it’s squeezing the competition => better.
Most people are bad at estimating volume by eye
I personaly prefer them even though they are the same volume
