• pinguinu [any]
      4·
      9 months ago

      Yeah, I never really understood those tall cans. Could it be a marketing thing?

      • OrnluWolfjarl
        11·
        9 months ago

        It is. Taller = More for many people. When we are children, we actually think tall and thin = more than short and wide. We lack the logical skill to figure out that 2 glasses of such shapes hold equal volumes of water.

        Even though this skill develops later in life, many people are still subconsciously wired to think tall = more. Therefore tall = better.

        There’s other things at play here, like stacking more cans per shelf, which makes it look like it’s squeezing the competition => better.

  • Boomkop3@reddthat.comBannedBanned from community
    7·
    9 months ago

    I have noticed that in metric, those tall ones contain just a bit less. I don’t know if there’s variation in how tall they come, but in metric it’s in the hundreds of millilitres rather than tens of whatever oz is

  • ☭ Comrade Pup Ivy 🇨🇺
    3·
    9 months ago

    I mean I would hardly call this anything less than bog standard inflation … I also prefer the taller skinner cans, but it does not seem like there is a trick, it is just normal inflation with a change to make people less likely to yell

    • sevenapples
      6·
      9 months ago

      At an 2x markup it’s more than that imo, it’s price gouging… Unless they were selling them for a loss for some time, which I doubt

      • ☭ Comrade Pup Ivy 🇨🇺
        1·
        9 months ago

        Inflation is, in part, the capitalists raising the prices without changing the product, in many ways they are driving, and set the pase of inflation