I get so flamed by this stuff all the time. Coffee used to be sold by the pound, now a can is what, 11.2 ounces? The Smirnoff Ice I had over the weekend was only an 11 ounce bottle – but it sure looked like a standard 12 oz! Mayonnaise in the That fancy new upside down squeeze bottle – nowhere near the 32 oz. in the standard jar.

Anyway, in my view sometimes it’s better to just call a spade a spade, and raise the price fifty or 75 cents. I just wrote to Cottonelle and told them so, too. (maybe they’ll send me some freebies or something.)

I’m routinely amazed at some stupidity in a product’s label while shopping at the grocery store. It never fails that at least once on every trip, something like this pops out and half annoys/half entertains me. The thought always occurs to me; are the people making the product really that dumb, or do they think we, the buying public, are that clueless?

Sadly, I think it’s the second. And, what would probably depress us all, is that I’d bet they have consumer studies to document that nonsense like the infographic on the back of the toilet paper packaging actually increases sales.

http://www.datastress.com/~madeleine/log/files/toiletpapier.jpg

I’m more easily proselytized by visio flowcharts.

Agreed, though – it’s pretty useless!

I know what double means, but I expect product names to be intentionally misleading, not accurate. (Plus, the diameter of the rolls doesn’t double, even though the number of sheets doubles, so the size is slightly counterintuitive.)

I think I had to find out the hard way — by reading the package, which has always told you how many sheets you get. This handy infographic would have saved me some time. Not a lot of time. But if you’re looking for an explanation for why this infographic exists, there it is.

LOL it says “Roll Size Guide” but the size of the rolls are the same.

And what the hell is the deal with comment from the escaped psych ward inmate (#5)?