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.

One semi-reasonable answer could be trying to normalize the package
prices of different types of coffee that vary in cost.