Hello All!

I have another gripe at TJ's in addition to their artistically varied
placing of "Decaffeinated" causing me to buy the stuff accidentally. I
don't stick to one type of coffee and today I happened to look at the
canister and saw the amount was 12oz. For a moment I thought they were
doing a Kellogg and raising prices by lowering the amount since I seemed
to remember coffee being sold in 16oz amounts. That doesn't seem to be
entirely the case since I saw packages at 13, 14 and 15oz on the
shelves. Why on earth do they have to be so inconsistent? The manager
had no good explanation but claimed they'd had these varied sizes for
years.


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James Silverton
Potomac, Maryland

Email, with obvious alterations:
not.jim.silverton.at.verizon.not

On Wed, 9 Jun 2010 17:00:00 -0400, "James Silverton"
> wrote:

>Hello All!
>
> I have another gripe at TJ's in addition to their artistically varied
>placing of "Decaffeinated" causing me to buy the stuff accidentally. I
>don't stick to one type of coffee and today I happened to look at the
>canister and saw the amount was 12oz. For a moment I thought they were
>doing a Kellogg and raising prices by lowering the amount since I seemed
>to remember coffee being sold in 16oz amounts. That doesn't seem to be
>entirely the case since I saw packages at 13, 14 and 15oz on the
>shelves. Why on earth do they have to be so inconsistent? The manager
>had no good explanation but claimed they'd had these varied sizes for
>years.
We do not have a Trader Joes here but lots of people package coffee
in odd sizes from 7 ounces to those you mentioned. You ask why?
Because they can trick your eye into taking a package that appears
larger and only after getting it home, noticing it certainly is not a
pound or half pound as you thought.

Just my $.02

aloha,
Cea

On 2010-06-09, James Silverton > wrote:

> had no good explanation but claimed they'd had these varied sizes for
> years.

Yes, old news. Applies to most any sold-by-weight product. Keeps you
on yer toes.

nb

James Silverton wrote:
>
> Hello All!
>
> I have another gripe at TJ's in addition to their artistically varied
> placing of "Decaffeinated" causing me to buy the stuff accidentally. I
> don't stick to one type of coffee and today I happened to look at the
> canister and saw the amount was 12oz. For a moment I thought they were
> doing a Kellogg and raising prices by lowering the amount since I seemed
> to remember coffee being sold in 16oz amounts. That doesn't seem to be
> entirely the case since I saw packages at 13, 14 and 15oz on the
> shelves. Why on earth do they have to be so inconsistent? The manager
> had no good explanation but claimed they'd had these varied sizes for
> years.

One semi-reasonable answer could be trying to normalize the package
prices of different types of coffee that vary in cost.

Pete wrote on Wed, 09 Jun 2010 18:51:15 -0500:


> James Silverton wrote:
>>
>> Hello All!
>>
>> I have another gripe at TJ's in addition to their
>> artistically varied placing of "Decaffeinated" causing me to
>> buy the stuff accidentally. I don't stick to one type of
>> coffee and today I happened to look at the canister and saw
>> the amount was 12oz. For a moment I thought they were doing a
>> Kellogg and raising prices by lowering the amount since I
>> seemed to remember coffee being sold in 16oz amounts. That
>> doesn't seem to be entirely the case since I saw packages at
>> 13, 14 and 15oz on the shelves. Why on earth do they have to
>> be so inconsistent? The manager had no good explanation but
>> claimed they'd had these varied sizes for years.

>One semi-reasonable answer could be trying to normalize the package
>prices of different types of coffee that vary in cost.

A reasonable suggestion but I don't detect much indication of it. In the
smaller, ~14oz containers, the price varies from $4 to $20 ("pure"
Kona).
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James Silverton
Potomac, Maryland

Email, with obvious alterations: not.jim.silverton.at.verizon.not

On Jun 9, 6:51*pm, "Pete C." > wrote:
> James Silverton wrote:
>
> > Hello All!
>
> > *I have another gripe at TJ's in addition to their artistically varied
> > placing of "Decaffeinated" causing me to buy the stuff accidentally. I
> > don't stick to one type of coffee and today I happened to look at the
> > canister and saw the amount was 12oz. For a moment I thought they were
> > doing a Kellogg and raising prices by lowering the amount since I seemed
> > to remember coffee being sold in 16oz amounts. That doesn't seem to be
> > entirely the case since I saw packages at 13, 14 and 15oz on the
> > shelves. Why on earth do they have to be so inconsistent? The manager
> > had no good explanation but claimed they'd had these varied sizes for
> > years.
>
> One semi-reasonable answer could be trying to normalize the package
> prices of different types of coffee that vary in cost.

Any time decaf doesn't cost more per pound, it likely means that they
used cheaper beans. Good decaf should cost more because it costs more
to produce.

--Bryan

On Wed, 9 Jun 2010 17:18:58 -0700 (PDT), Food Snob®
> wrote:

>On Jun 9, 6:51*pm, "Pete C." > wrote:
>> James Silverton wrote:
>>
>> > Hello All!

>>
>> One semi-reasonable answer could be trying to normalize the package
>> prices of different types of coffee that vary in cost.
>
>Any time decaf doesn't cost more per pound, it likely means that they
>used cheaper beans. Good decaf should cost more because it costs more
>to produce.
>
>--Bryan
Indeed. de-caf costs

aloha,
Cea- Kona coffee farmer