What are your opinions on bags of crisps that are only half full of crisps and are deliberately inflated with air to make them appear fuller than they are?
2006-07-29 01:32:58 · 15 answers · asked by Frax 4 in Food & Drink ➔ Other - Food & Drink
If you've ever worked in a processing plant, you'd find out that each bag is filled by weight. Have you tried finding out what the net weight is of the chips you're eating--actually measuring the weight? The air is not deliberately pumped in; that is probably a defect of the machine. There shouldn't be any air in there, I don't think.
Even here in the US customers have that misplaced theory that products are filled according to the size of the box. Thus, companies always have to deal with people returning products just because "it wasn't filled all the way to the top." If you read the bottom of the box carefully, it reads "net weight"--that's what the bag is filled by (weight, not volume).
If anything, the bag is usually bigger than the space needed for the product so it "appears" like you're getting more for your buck--or pound, whatever monetary unit you use in your country. It's an old trick--but in reality you are not getting cheated because if you weigh the product (without the bag or packaging) you'll see the product is actually just a little slightly heavier than it should be--i.e, what it says on the box the net weight should be. That's purposely done so that, in case there is a malfunction in the machinery and slightly less product starts getting filled into each bag, the product will still be heavier than or exactly the weight written on the packaging--so customers will not complain.
Unfortunately, a lot of customers wrongly believe that the bigger packaging means that they have been cheated--that someone didn't fill their bag to repletion. But they rarely weigh the product to find out the actual weight.
2006-07-29 01:55:18 · answer #1 · answered by ♣Tascalcoán♣ 4 · 21⤊ 4⤋
They should either make the bag smaller, but not the amount, or they should put more crisps in the bag! I think they're cheating us out of crisps! Walkers are the worst for doing it.
2006-07-29 01:42:14 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
well they claim that this keeps the crisps from becoming broken during shipment...and to a certain extent I believe them...even though it looks like the company is being cheap.. I don't think the cost of 1/2 bag of crisps is actually very much to the company making them.
2006-07-29 01:39:36 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
They are measured by weight, not the amount of crisps, so they are all the same, some just look like less if the crisps are big....
buy family size! xx
2006-07-29 01:35:27 · answer #4 · answered by Rose 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They are sold by weight of the crisps not how fat the bag is.
2006-07-29 01:38:12 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
A mate and that i between us actually despatched a letter to between the tremendous produces retaining how they can make a fortune in making use of smaller packets as they're under no circumstances even over a 0.33 finished!!! you does no longer trust the bull they got here up with over the lower than filling of the packets!!!!
2016-11-26 22:15:10 · answer #6 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the manufacturers should have their noses torn off with fish hooks and thei families sold to slave traders. Despite the Israeli bombing of innocent Lebanese this cridp crime remains the worst crime since Hitler
2006-07-29 01:42:52 · answer #7 · answered by saumarez1998 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
TRUE-why cant it be 60% crisps and 40% air...MUST BE STOPPED-BOYCOTT THEM until they act together
2006-07-29 02:03:46 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
they are sold by weight
tha air helps to prevent them from breaking up into little crumbs
2006-07-29 02:07:20 · answer #9 · answered by mumoftheyear 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes it is a cheat...lets call the crisp police!!!
2006-07-29 01:35:55 · answer #10 · answered by willows 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋