OMG!!! I bought parmesan cheese from Aldi last week. The container said 8 oz but when I opened it, if looked half full. I took out my scale and sure enough, it was only 5 oz. I assumed it was a fluke...maybe not so much a fluke after all.
This is a great story for the local news stations. Over the years I've dealt with local news media, and they will be sure this gets wall to wall coverage. Try to find several items that are under weight.
Get a scale that is recently certified and calibrated. Bring it with you to the store along with a video camera.
Record the scale testing & certification data... and then begin weighing products on video. You then have a basis for filing a massive class action lawsuit.
Using an uncertified scale, even if the product weights are definitely off to the point of fraud... is NOT evidence that you can present in court. If the scale has been calibrated and certified, and especially if you bring a test weight with you and show that on video verifying scale accuracy... THEN you have legal evidence that can be presented in court. In that case, go attorney shopping.
if enough people post videos of weighing items that dont match the weight on the label, it should prompt the state board of weights and measures to conduct an investigation. sadly, will that investigation be an honest one?
you dont need to open the product, if it weighs as much or less than the listed weight, there is fraud. a 12oz box of cereal should weigh 12oz PLUS the weight of the packaging. if it weighs 11 oz over all, proof there is fraud.
Manufacturers can be sued... but so can the retailer.
The retailer (Kroger) is selling under-weight products, which is consumer fraud. Whether or not they are doing it knowingly, they are still responsible.
Get a good lawyer and file a class action lawsuit. Remember the lawsuit against Subway, when they advertised "foot-long sandwiches". In 2013, a series of lawsuits was filed against Subway, claiming their "footlong" sandwiches were not always a full foot long. The suits eventually combined into one big class action lawsuit, representing customers who purchased 6-inch or footlong sandwiches anytime between January 1, 2003, and October 2, 2015.
The plaintiffs claimed that Subway was marketing footlong sandwiches "as being 12 inches when they are not in fact 12 inches. At least one lawyer hired a private investigator to visit 14 Subway locations and collect evidence. Measuring the bread at different restaurants, they found that most of the bread only measured to about 11" or 11.5" and Subway was shorting each customer roughly 45¢.
The court found that none of the marketing practices by Subway franchises were "improper or unlawful" but in the settlement Subway agreed to pay up to $525,000 in attorneys fees, and it agreed to employ and enforce "quality control measures to ensure that operators are complying with the rules." Subway restaurants are now be required to measure bread, so that footlong and 6-inch sandwiches will be at least 12 inches and 6 inches.
The plaintiffs received NO monetary award. (that's how it goes sometimes). Instead, they got the satisfaction of making sure that Subway was delivering what they promised to consumers.
In this case... you may bring a class action lawsuit and lawyers will see $$$$$$. You may actually get a nice award this time. Subway wasn't intentionally shorting the sandwiches, but that's just the way the bread baked. They didn't KNOW that the footlong bread wasn't exactly a foot long after baking.
However, the product manufacturer KNOWS that the packages of cheese or dog food or whatever... is underweight. They package that food based on certified consumer scales by weight. There is no way in hell that the manufacturers wouldn't know that every package is only 2/3rds of the advertised weight. That was intentional. That being the case, they may be sued for punitive damages at 3X actual damages to consumers. In other words, could be $Hundreds of Millions in lawsuit. Again, don't expect to see a dime of it. Instead, expect your attorney to get wealthier.
I’ve checked a few items on my kitchen scale to confirm weights. No issues yet. I’ll check more. To be more successful, there would need to be a viral aspect to it. Get around media censorship. The media will call it a ‘manufacturer’s mistake’ and bury it.
So, the ‘Weight it at home challenge.’ Millions of people have home kitchen scales. If the companies are regularly shorting us, it would be a story that grows. Everyone is pissed about food prices. They would see the evidence right under their noses. There is your class of similarly situated individuals. More importantly, it puts a spotlight on food issues.
It’s how they’re hiding how bad inflation truly is. It started with prices raising. Once that got to a point where people started seeing it and complaining, they started shrinking the sizes to keep the price from going up further because people won’t notice the smaller sizes as quickly. We started noticing the shrinking sizes and now, they’re shrinking them and not reflecting it on the packaging.
I saw what appeared to be a "half gallon" of ice cream the other day and it actually said on the label in very small text - 1 quart 1 pint. They used to be 2 quarts, or 1 half gallon.
I also fully expect that American manufacturers will start marking everything in grams instead of ounces just to confuse us. Ounces have been used for a LONG time here, but grams or milligrams are usually for things like medicine.
They are doing it with all the foods. I buy a brown rice cereal and you can tell they are putting less cereal inside of the package. It is not the same quantity plus not the same quality it used to be, less oats and no blueberries anymore. It doesn’t taste like it used to be. They are cheaters.
my dog bisquits suddenly didn't have as many in the "pantry box", weighed less, the bisquits were thinner and more crumbly, and at the bottom of the bag inside of the box, were lotta crumbs and even burnt pieces! box still said 5 lb, but NO WAY!
Wow - I just noticed that yesterday. I hadn't had a spicy chicken sandwich from them in months. The breast was slightly longer than the bun but not nearly wide enough.
Most fast-food places are also doing that with their fries. They don't fill their containers anymore, so a small, medium, and large are pretty much the same size now. I saw a story last year the certain places were doing that for a while, and they got caught in England.
Quotes from the article: "Whole Foods supermarkets have been routinely overcharging customers by overstating the weight of prepackaged meat, dairy and baked goods, New York City’s consumer chief said Wednesday."
"Last year, Whole Foods agreed to pay $800,000 in penalties — and improve pricing accuracy — after an investigation into alleged pricing irregularities in California."
"The (NY) Consumer Affairs Department said it tested 80 different types of pre-packaged products and found mislabeled weights for each, with overcharges ranging from 80 cents for a package of pecan panko to the $14.84 markup on the shrimp."
Is it based off weight or measurement? This seems to be a reach. If you poured blue cheese crumbles in a 4 oz cup it would be less it weight because of all the space between each piece. Is she wanting them to pack it down into a block or paste? If they packed it down then yes more would be added to equate to 4 oz in measurement.
A recipe calls for 2 oz of blue cheese crumbles you measure that shit out. Not pack it down. If packed down the recipe measurements would have to change or it would be over whelming. To me this is a dead subject based off that fact.
You're ignoring the fact that her intuition based on previous experience with the product led her to question it in the first place. So at one point, the container absolutely weighed more.
Plus she's far from the only person complaining about this kind of thing. The blue cheese is far from the only product that's being manipulated like this. Everything is shrinking. Even saltines have shrunk and gone down in quality. Hell, eggs have too. Eggs, of all things!
OMG!!! I bought parmesan cheese from Aldi last week. The container said 8 oz but when I opened it, if looked half full. I took out my scale and sure enough, it was only 5 oz. I assumed it was a fluke...maybe not so much a fluke after all.
This is a great story for the local news stations. Over the years I've dealt with local news media, and they will be sure this gets wall to wall coverage. Try to find several items that are under weight.
Kroger cucked super hard during covid and showed their true colors. They are a bunch of scheisters disguising themselves as a wholesome business.
I wonder if Kroger would like to discuss the employee "targeting system" and how it works, which led to the suicide of a worker in southern ohio.
Get a scale that is recently certified and calibrated. Bring it with you to the store along with a video camera.
Record the scale testing & certification data... and then begin weighing products on video. You then have a basis for filing a massive class action lawsuit.
Using an uncertified scale, even if the product weights are definitely off to the point of fraud... is NOT evidence that you can present in court. If the scale has been calibrated and certified, and especially if you bring a test weight with you and show that on video verifying scale accuracy... THEN you have legal evidence that can be presented in court. In that case, go attorney shopping.
Best advice is the certified scale. Department of Weights and Messures takes this shit very seriously. Imagine if they didn't exist. Gas Pumps?
We should all do it here in this post.
if enough people post videos of weighing items that dont match the weight on the label, it should prompt the state board of weights and measures to conduct an investigation. sadly, will that investigation be an honest one?
You would have to weigh it at home, because the packaging has weight. So show your receipt and the sealed box/bag being opened and poured onto a scale
you dont need to open the product, if it weighs as much or less than the listed weight, there is fraud. a 12oz box of cereal should weigh 12oz PLUS the weight of the packaging. if it weighs 11 oz over all, proof there is fraud.
True, if the discrepancy is enough for the packaging to still keep it under the weight listed on the box
I'm thinkging it's not necessarily the stores fault but definitely the manufacturer's fault for putting less in the packages than they say there is.
Edit to add: And with the way food prices are right now, they have a flipping nerve to scam people like this.
Manufacturers can be sued... but so can the retailer.
The retailer (Kroger) is selling under-weight products, which is consumer fraud. Whether or not they are doing it knowingly, they are still responsible.
Get a good lawyer and file a class action lawsuit. Remember the lawsuit against Subway, when they advertised "foot-long sandwiches". In 2013, a series of lawsuits was filed against Subway, claiming their "footlong" sandwiches were not always a full foot long. The suits eventually combined into one big class action lawsuit, representing customers who purchased 6-inch or footlong sandwiches anytime between January 1, 2003, and October 2, 2015.
The plaintiffs claimed that Subway was marketing footlong sandwiches "as being 12 inches when they are not in fact 12 inches. At least one lawyer hired a private investigator to visit 14 Subway locations and collect evidence. Measuring the bread at different restaurants, they found that most of the bread only measured to about 11" or 11.5" and Subway was shorting each customer roughly 45¢.
The court found that none of the marketing practices by Subway franchises were "improper or unlawful" but in the settlement Subway agreed to pay up to $525,000 in attorneys fees, and it agreed to employ and enforce "quality control measures to ensure that operators are complying with the rules." Subway restaurants are now be required to measure bread, so that footlong and 6-inch sandwiches will be at least 12 inches and 6 inches.
The plaintiffs received NO monetary award. (that's how it goes sometimes). Instead, they got the satisfaction of making sure that Subway was delivering what they promised to consumers.
In this case... you may bring a class action lawsuit and lawyers will see $$$$$$. You may actually get a nice award this time. Subway wasn't intentionally shorting the sandwiches, but that's just the way the bread baked. They didn't KNOW that the footlong bread wasn't exactly a foot long after baking.
However, the product manufacturer KNOWS that the packages of cheese or dog food or whatever... is underweight. They package that food based on certified consumer scales by weight. There is no way in hell that the manufacturers wouldn't know that every package is only 2/3rds of the advertised weight. That was intentional. That being the case, they may be sued for punitive damages at 3X actual damages to consumers. In other words, could be $Hundreds of Millions in lawsuit. Again, don't expect to see a dime of it. Instead, expect your attorney to get wealthier.
I’ve checked a few items on my kitchen scale to confirm weights. No issues yet. I’ll check more. To be more successful, there would need to be a viral aspect to it. Get around media censorship. The media will call it a ‘manufacturer’s mistake’ and bury it.
So, the ‘Weight it at home challenge.’ Millions of people have home kitchen scales. If the companies are regularly shorting us, it would be a story that grows. Everyone is pissed about food prices. They would see the evidence right under their noses. There is your class of similarly situated individuals. More importantly, it puts a spotlight on food issues.
It's so crazy that we have to go to such lengths to get the truth out and around censorship from our own media.
Their job is supposed to be to inform us of this kind of thing. Instead they are the ones actively working to cover it up.
People are literally strategizing how to make sure video evidence is able to get out from under media censorship so that others can see it.
It’s how they’re hiding how bad inflation truly is. It started with prices raising. Once that got to a point where people started seeing it and complaining, they started shrinking the sizes to keep the price from going up further because people won’t notice the smaller sizes as quickly. We started noticing the shrinking sizes and now, they’re shrinking them and not reflecting it on the packaging.
I saw what appeared to be a "half gallon" of ice cream the other day and it actually said on the label in very small text - 1 quart 1 pint. They used to be 2 quarts, or 1 half gallon.
I also fully expect that American manufacturers will start marking everything in grams instead of ounces just to confuse us. Ounces have been used for a LONG time here, but grams or milligrams are usually for things like medicine.
They have scammed us since khazarian mafia took over the world.
They are doing it with all the foods. I buy a brown rice cereal and you can tell they are putting less cereal inside of the package. It is not the same quantity plus not the same quality it used to be, less oats and no blueberries anymore. It doesn’t taste like it used to be. They are cheaters.
yup.. that's happening EVERYWHERE
kroger also pushed the trans agenda in their trainings
The commenter probably is still raving on Obamacare, I would think.
But a 4oz container could also be … empty!
my dog bisquits suddenly didn't have as many in the "pantry box", weighed less, the bisquits were thinner and more crumbly, and at the bottom of the bag inside of the box, were lotta crumbs and even burnt pieces! box still said 5 lb, but NO WAY!
Wow - I just noticed that yesterday. I hadn't had a spicy chicken sandwich from them in months. The breast was slightly longer than the bun but not nearly wide enough.
Most fast-food places are also doing that with their fries. They don't fill their containers anymore, so a small, medium, and large are pretty much the same size now. I saw a story last year the certain places were doing that for a while, and they got caught in England.
Whole Foods got busted for this in NY 2015 and in CA prior to that: https://apnews.com/article/d73cb8d07b8244138a89ae8f96b79395
Quotes from the article: "Whole Foods supermarkets have been routinely overcharging customers by overstating the weight of prepackaged meat, dairy and baked goods, New York City’s consumer chief said Wednesday."
"Last year, Whole Foods agreed to pay $800,000 in penalties — and improve pricing accuracy — after an investigation into alleged pricing irregularities in California."
"The (NY) Consumer Affairs Department said it tested 80 different types of pre-packaged products and found mislabeled weights for each, with overcharges ranging from 80 cents for a package of pecan panko to the $14.84 markup on the shrimp."
Common Core Math.
But the tomatoes and peppers in my garden are just what they look like they are. Hmmm....
Shrinkflation
Math hospital
Is it based off weight or measurement? This seems to be a reach. If you poured blue cheese crumbles in a 4 oz cup it would be less it weight because of all the space between each piece. Is she wanting them to pack it down into a block or paste? If they packed it down then yes more would be added to equate to 4 oz in measurement.
A recipe calls for 2 oz of blue cheese crumbles you measure that shit out. Not pack it down. If packed down the recipe measurements would have to change or it would be over whelming. To me this is a dead subject based off that fact.
4 oz is a measurement of weight. The volume might be more or less for the same weight. Therefore you couldn't have a "cup" that measures oz.
You're ignoring the fact that her intuition based on previous experience with the product led her to question it in the first place. So at one point, the container absolutely weighed more.
Plus she's far from the only person complaining about this kind of thing. The blue cheese is far from the only product that's being manipulated like this. Everything is shrinking. Even saltines have shrunk and gone down in quality. Hell, eggs have too. Eggs, of all things!
They are making fake eggs now in India and China. Like with Gelatin. There are videos on youtube.
In regards to this specific product I believe measurement would have been a more effective than weight.
I don't disagree that this is an issue the occurs. Companies look at dollar signs more than product or consumers. I'm sure many of them cut corners.