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Default Canned pear shortage?

On Fri, 31 Jul 2015 11:20:28 -0400, Nancy Young <replyto@inemail>
wrote:

> On 7/30/2015 11:33 PM, jinx the minx wrote:
>
> > You should be asking YOUR STORE what THEIR issue is getting/keeping them in
> > stock, not wondering what OUR pear situation is,as if there is some small
> > can of pears conspiracy going on.

>
> Holy crow! I think she's on to something, my store had no small
> cans of pears!! Of course, they had almost no small cans of fruit
> at all. I guess it's not a pear conspiracy after all. My store just
> hates small fruit cans.
>

Amazon has them.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00...8B8NXV8J4CNRSJ

It's easy enough to forget that small cans exist when you're used to
just seeing the big ones, but if I'm at the right store - I can even
buy coconut milk in what have currently shrunk to 5.6 fl oz (165 ML)
cans.

I wonder when this silliness of shrinking the product to fit a price
point will stop?

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