-Kanrabat- wrote:william-james88 wrote:chuckdawg1999 wrote:-Kanrabat- wrote:Sabrblade wrote:And all chip bags already come half empty.
Those who are genuinely serious when they complain about that grinds my gears. Not only the nitrogen is a conservative, it also prevent the chips to be utterly CRUSHED inside the bag. A simple fact too many people ignore or just can't think about.
Or maybe they don't know? It wasn't THAT long ago I learned about nitrogen in the bags.
I was today years old when I learnt it.
The nitrogen thing, maybe. But the "air" itself functioning as "padding" to prevent the chips from becoming a fine paste should be obvious.
Padding and preservation may be factors. But so is deceptive marketing, and that can't be simply batted aside. In commercials, bags of product like chips are almost always depicted as being full to overflowing when you open them, practically bursting out in a torrent like the horn of plenty. Which is why the reality of a nearly half-empty bag is such a disappointment.
Pringles are protected by a can. Yet those STILL come with about 1/8 empty air when you open them, and many of the chips are still in crumbles. With bags, the chips still pool into the bottom, where some of the contents get crushed anyway. But to be fair - most chip bags also have
another disclaimer that usually reads, 'Sold by weight, not volume'. However, Transformer packages don't seem to have a similar disclaimer that says, 'Figure is priced by part count, not actual size'. Maybe they
should do something like that, if that's to be used as one of the justifications for price hikes.
So while the chip thing isn't a perfect analogy (what
is?), it's still apt enough for what we're seeing with some of this Hasbro packaging gimmickry. Based on the photos, it's obvious Hasbro COULD have easily fit SS Voyager Ironhide into a deluxe container, and still had plenty of shipping protection. That's
if they were really concerned about
reducing package waste and 'saving the environment'. But they didn't, because they knew customers would be outraged paying $34 for a deluxe sized box. Whether puffing a chip bag with air to make it 'look' fuller; or putting a small toy in a large box to make buyers think they're getting more for their money, it's still an underhanded trick to mask inflation, and which doesn't really fool anybody.
