On Wed, 9 Jun 2010 17:00:00 -0400, "James Silverton"
> wrote:

>Hello All!
>
> I have another gripe at TJ's in addition to their artistically varied
>placing of "Decaffeinated" causing me to buy the stuff accidentally. I
>don't stick to one type of coffee and today I happened to look at the
>canister and saw the amount was 12oz. For a moment I thought they were
>doing a Kellogg and raising prices by lowering the amount since I seemed
>to remember coffee being sold in 16oz amounts. That doesn't seem to be
>entirely the case since I saw packages at 13, 14 and 15oz on the
>shelves. Why on earth do they have to be so inconsistent? The manager
>had no good explanation but claimed they'd had these varied sizes for
>years.
We do not have a Trader Joes here but lots of people package coffee
in odd sizes from 7 ounces to those you mentioned. You ask why?
Because they can trick your eye into taking a package that appears
larger and only after getting it home, noticing it certainly is not a
pound or half pound as you thought.

Just my $.02

aloha,
Cea