Invisible Price Increases

Some price increases are obvious, like gas. Some others, not so much.

My husband likes Chock Full ‘o Nuts Coffee. I already had one in the pantry but saw it on sale and so, bought another one. Today the older one fell on me when I was digging for something else in the pantry. I noticed that the one I bought yesterday was smaller. A LOT smaller!

The one I bought just last month (March 2011) had 33.9 ounces of coffee. The one I bought yesterday has only 26 ounces of coffee! For the same “sale” price the larger one sold for.

It gets better. I have a basket I keep kitchen utensils in. It’s big, so I use coffee cans to help hold them upright. The can in use at the moment is, you guessed it! An old CFON coffee can from last year. That one had, drum roll please…39 ounces of coffee!It is the exact same size can as the 33.9 ounce one. The 26 ounce can I got yesterday is smaller. It’d be pretty obvious what was going on if it weren’t. I didn’t notice until they were side by side in my pantry.

The “regular” price around here for this coffee is $8.99. Sale is $5.99. I hadn’t noticed a price change, even though I know all commodity prices are going up, because it hasn’t. They are just selling us less coffee for the same price.

This is the invisible price increase I’m talking about. This happens all the time, with all sorts of products sold by weight, but I have never had such undeniable proof staring me right in the face!

The first can is 39, second is the 33.9 and last is the 26 ounce size.

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