On 2014-04-13 9:01 AM, James Silverton wrote:
> Why does Sun Maid choose to pack raisins in cardboard rectangular
> containers unlike other companies who use cylindrical ones? Especially
> when the container is partially empty you have to be very careful when
> picking it up one handed since the sides tend to collapse and down goes
> the thing to the floor, usually spilling about half a cup of raisins.
> Sweeping the floor is not something I want to do before having my
> breakfast cereal with raisins.
>
>

Do the smart thing. Switch to bananas ;-)

I always keep my raisins in a Tupperware container. I buy a new package
when I get low. I dump out the old ones, poor the new ones into the
Tupperware and then put the old raisins on top.

Why did they do it???? Maybe you should check the volume or weight of
the contents. It may be that the did it to downsize the packaging but
making it look the same size. Nabisco did that with their large boxes
of Shredded Wheat. They use packs of three and used to stack eight
layers in the large box for 24. They switched to packing them on their
sides, two thick and three high. The front of the box looks about the
same size but there is 25% less inside.

It is a lot easier to fool people with cylindrical containers because
most people are easily mislead into thinking that something containers
more if it is taller. With cylinders, volume increases much faster with
increased diameter than with height.