In article >,
"Doug Kanter" > wrote:

> You're turning their information gathering into a negative, and depending on
> your point of view, it sometimes is.

I didn't change it into a negative, merely stated fact. It's not a big
discovery to realize that companies serve themselves and not
consumer--except for the extent that it aids the company.


> But, sometimes it's not. What if you could only buy cookies in a 10
> lb bag, but you lived alone, so 9 lbs went stale within a month, or
> you grew tired of that flavor before you finished them all? Would you
> not want the manufacturer to eventually discover the flaw in their
> thinking?

Product freshness was never the issue. What you're discussing is the
manufacturer finding a new market niche: smaller packaging for people
who live alone.

On the other hand, if a company changed a $7, 10-pound bag of bags into
a $4, 2-pound bag (eliminated the 10-pound bag entirely) and sold it
with the blurb "New! More convenient size!", then they're not likely
being honest.


> In a similar vein, if Breyers kept their package size the same and adjusted
> the price (out of necessity) to $6.00 per container, would that seem like a
> lofty price to you? Might you then want them to make the container smaller?

You make it sound like a service. It's not: it's an appeal to poor
arithmetic. Unless you decrease your yearly ice cream consumption, your
expenditure will be the same--it'll simply be over a greater number of
purchases.


> > You never asked *me* what price would be too much to pay for Breyer.
>
> Actually, I *did* ask you, and you chose not to answer the question. Even if
> you make your own ice cream, you must have SOME idea what price you'd find
> too high.

Prior to the post to which I responded above, when did you ask? You may
be thinking of someone else; I believe you asked Photoman:
<http://tinyurl.com/4h6se>

Since I don't buy packaged ice cream, and infrequently consume ice cream
in general, any answer I give would be in the abstract at best. When I
make it, I do so because I enjoy the process more than the product.

Further, I tend to purchase items because I "need" them, not because of
their price. If I needed to buy ice cream (or some other product) for a
dinner party, I'd buy it.

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