"Doug Kanter" > wrote in message
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>
> "PhotoMan" > wrote in message
> ...
> >
> > "Doug Kanter" > wrote in message
> > ...
> >> 1) I've posted at least three possible reasons, all of which are based
on
> >> the realities of the grocery industry.
> >>
> >> 2) The actual reasons are not known to you or I, but could be if you
> >> wrote
> > a
> >> letter to the company instead of complaining about it in a newsgroup
> >> where
> >> nobody has the ability to give you a definitive answer.
> >>
> >> 3) You say I haven't come up with a better explanation, but you have
yet
> > to
> >> comment on any of the well-intended things I've written. Your most
> >> interesting response has merely been "They do it so they can raise the
> > price
> >> without appearing to raise the price." You have refused to think about
> >> why
> >> it might have been necessary to raise the price.
> >>
> >> 4) Besides being well-intended, my comments are based on working for
many
> >> years (and currently) in the wholesale end of the grocery business.
> >> Therefore, they're far from guesses.
> >>
> >> 5) At least twice, I've reminded others here that the price of milk has
> > gone
> >> through the roof over the past year or two, and wondered why anyone
> >> should
> >> expect a product that's largely made of milk to remain stable in price.
> >> Nobody (including you) has acknowledged this fact. How about doing that
> > now?
> >>
> >> 6) The tone of this entire discussion suggests that some of the
> > participants
> >> suspect an evil conspiracy. But, nobody is complaining about the other
> >> grocery products which have gone through the exact same changes. Why is
> >> that?
> >>
> >> 7) My neighbor's driveway is the same size as mine. He's very happy
with
> > the
> >> company which completely repaved it 5 years ago, so he gave me a copy
of
> > the
> >> invoice for the work because I need to have mine repaved in the spring.
> >> In
> >> addition to the company he used, I called 3 others for estimates. They
> > were
> >> all pretty close in price, but every one of them was about 40% higher
> >> than
> >> what my neighbor paid. This is far beyond normal inflation. Can you
guess
> >> what raw material the increase is based on? If you answer yes, do you
> >> feel
> >> the increase was still unjustified?
> >>
> >> Your turn. You need to go back through the thread and actually read
what
> >> I've written before you can tell me that I haven't come up with a
better
> >> explanation.
> >
> > I never questioned the reasoning behind the price increase. Had they
> > simply
> > raised the price I would have grumbled under my breath and bought it
> > anyway.
> > Railing on and on about the cost of doing business has nothing to do
with
> > my
> > original post. Re-read it!
> >
> >
>
> OK. Let's assume we agree that because of real-world factors, they had to
> raise the price. Did you want a large sign on the freezer case, warning
you
> that the package was now smaller? Or, did you want them to load up the ice
> cream with guar gum like the store-brand crap, so you wouldn't have to go
> through this trauma?

Absolutely not. No sign. No guar gum. It's not traumatic in the least. It's
simply a shady WAY to raise prices. I'm not as gullible as they seem to
think many people are.