"PhotoMan" > wrote in message
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> "Doug Kanter" > wrote in message
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>> "PhotoMan" > wrote in message
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>> >
>> > "Doug Kanter" > wrote in message
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>> >> 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.
>
>

We're going around in circles. If you think it was shady, pretend you're the
brand manager for Good Humor-Breyers. What would you have done differently?