It's frustrating to see all the deceptive packaging, and that it is somehow legal, but what really grinds my gears is the obscene amount of packing waste (i.e. single use plastic/packaging) that goes into all of these falsities.
@@LydiaHarper1019 It has been my observation that one of the more major contributors to the packaging waste is the self-care industry. I'm actually working on sourcing products for self-care that use as little as waste as possible. There is a burgeoning industry to support these type of consumer choices.
This is the price of freedom in the U.S. from my POV: The industry is allowed to do whatever they want even this is smelling like lying or betraying. In another video I saw a package of 1000 plastic bricks containing only 523... In Germany we have a couple of organisations and laws protecting customers from such behaviour. It is not allowed to promiss and don't deliver, it is not allowed to use bad-quality ingredients, if something breaks due to normal use within the first two years you give it back and get it repaired for free or a new device for free, organisational test look for sad quality or allergens and companies must take back all their bad products. Bigger packages with less quantity and higher price is reported in TV magazines or newspaper. Based on this I like regulated Germany and feel saver.
It’s important not only to never buy the product again, but to actually make the effort to return it to the store (who shares culpability) so they don’t make get away with it even once.
They don't actually care cuz they know noone's gonna do anything about it. And I'm pretty sure they don't care if most people won't buy it again after 1st time because they're just gonna move to another product once it stops selling and repeat the process. I think the only way to prevent this is country banning such packaging but I highly doubt any country is gonna deal with this.
If the vast majority weren't accepting it, it wouldn't be done. There are often better options & people simply keep allowing themselves to be treated this way.
home depot glued a plastic flower to my catus, and i had been taking care of it for about 2 months and only just thought “hey, why has this flower not dried up?” so i got it off (gently) and now it has a scar, but doin good 👍
Well, hopefully Gregg is ok with being flower free but loved anyway. I hate companies that scam & get away with it. When I was young I wanted to own a supermarket & charge 15% profit over expenses. I figured I’d make my fortune out of repeat business instead of bumping up prices to the 400% + that too many are at. Unfortunately I never had the money to start out. Maybe my next lifetime
In Germany this behaviour is illegal! It will be reported in TV and magazines. The goverment set up some organisations and laws to protect people decades before. You should have something like this - the unlimited freedom in US is a green card for this criminal behaviour.
Anyone who thinks it’s a bad thing when you receive less of a Hershey’s product than you expected clearly has never tasted Hershey’s chocolate… they did you a favour!
I'm from the UK...And ever since Mondelez bought-out Cadbury a couple of years ago, exactly the same could be said for „Dairy“ „Milk“ too. It genuinely tastes like Brexit💩... 🍫🇬🇧🤮 Cadbury used to proudly claim there was a „Glass and a half“ (Maybe 300ml) of milk in every pound (454g) of their chocolate. Under Mondelez, it seems to have become a *thimble* and a half (7,5ml) in every kilogram (2lb 2oz)... 🙁
Long term this is not a sustainable policy by these companies. I once tried a new coffee that I really liked but the jar was only half full and the empty plastic lid was half of the container. Even though I liked it I have never bought it again!
We have deceiving sandwiches at grocery stores and convenience stores in the US. Not as bad as the one at 1:00 but very close! After watching the entire video from now on any time I get deceived, I'm taking the product back to the store for a refund. Thank you for this video!!
The one that would tick me off the most is the sandwich because sometimes I grab one of those convenient wrapped ones for lunch, and get hungry in the middle of the day. Thankfully never had such a thing happen to me.
1:09 i'm going to assume that most of these pictures are in the usa? because in the UK , selling crayons like that is either illegal ( false advertising ) or would get such bad publicity for the company, that they ' could ' go out of business.
It’s illegal in the US too - false advertising. Especially the products which don’t even remotely resemble the package or ads. Sadly they know that very few people will make a complaint. And they can claim with some products that they use the same packaging as a larger product to save costs. Shonky to the Max! “false advertising Primary tabs Under Section 43(a) of the Lanham Act, a claim can be made against a defendant for false or misleading advertising. For a claim against a defendant for false advertising, the following elements are met and the plaintiff must show: (1) defendant made false or misleading statements as to his own products (or another’s); (2) actual deception, or at least a tendency to deceive a substantial portion of the intended audience; (3) deception is material in that it is likely to influence purchasing decisions; (4) the advertised goods travel in interstate commerce; and (5) a likelihood of injury to plaintiff. However, the plaintiff does not have to prove actual injury.” From Cornell law edu
There's a couple of UK examples in this too, though. The _Half pepperoni_ pizza toward the end is an Asda product, and Asda (Though wholly owned/controlled by Wal-mart 🇺🇸) *only* operate in the UK. There's also a well distributed example of a £3,50 Pret wrap with some _value added_ air concealed in the middle of the packaging, and the „French“ sandwich at 00:56 has packaging and bread style very closely matching that of one of the major British sandwich producers, so I don't think that was _made_ in France. 🥪🏭🇬🇧 And let's face it; The UK has fallen for the biggest ad/packaging scam in history. Still haven't seen a single penny of that extra £43m/week for the NHS which so many (Not including myself) voted for... 😉
Why though. People just won’t buy again whereas if you made even a semi decent product the return customers would mean more profit but long term rather than short term. I don’t understand the logic.
It’s the stupid farmer who killed the golden goose-no thought for the future of the brand. I’m guessing the Execs who make the most money aren’t paying attention-I doubt if they’ve ever been in a Walmart or ALDI
For medicines that have been out for years already I would agree with you. For developing new medicines, to do so safely and with the right kind of research is extremely expensive and that cost needs to be recouped somehow.
Some of these are utterly appalling. The manufacturers should be ashamed of themselves for such cheap marketing tactics. Disgusting. I suggest viewers make a note of these brands.
I have never encountered these kinds of problems here in Canada. I think our labelling laws are quite strict. They might make a package look bigger than it is.....but other than that not seen anything like these!
For many of these items the weight is listed on the packaging. The manufacturer is counting on you not looking too closely at the weight, and just going by package size. Look at the weight, my friends!
I remember many years ago buying some donuts that were supposed to be filled with jam. One only had a minuscule amount of jam in there, the rest were completely empty! At the time I thought it was an honest mistake (someone forgot to refill the machine?) but now I'm wondering if it was intentional...
Bought a can of raspberries in syrup once and there were NO raspberries in the tin at all. Wrote to the cannery who refused to believe me but sent me a voucher for another can as a goodwill gesture.
Dam, people really going all out just so they can get more money... "Hey Tod, how should we get more money?" "(Tod, drunk af) What if we put more packaging around our product, raised it's price and said it's a better version?" "Tod you're a f-ing genius, I'm giving you a raise"
They don't care if a product fails. The parent company makes tons of other products. All they care about is money to make the shareholders happy each quarter. Even if it is a short term gain they'll take it and stick it on their customers.
I think Wall Street needs to be destroyed. That adds to the cost, as we all know. What gets me is that if a company needs other people's money to operate on they need to close their doors. Look at Walmart 2023 or 2024. They made 17 billion dollar profit. Now, why in the hell do they need stock holders for? Back in the days when our grandparents had businesses, they would reinvest some of their profit back into the business to make it grow. It might have been a little slow growing, but it was a solid business they could rely on. And they were honest as could be. Also dealt with only American products, none of this Chinese junk.
Pantene have been doing this sh*t in my country for 8 years now. They advertise some new product claiming it now has some new top-notch ingredient, and when you see the amount of stuff or check the ingredients list, you see right through the BS. They've been slowly replacing the 400ml (which used to be 475ml back in the day) shampoos and conditioners with 300ml ones. Their styling creams don't have hydrolyzed proteins anymore, but are more expensive than they were in 2019 because of course they are. Their hair masks, ampoules and conditioners are literally the same product but with different packaging and different prices (same ingredients list in the same order), the fancy shampoo bottles cost more even if they have less product than the classic packaging (and still almost same formula), and the list goes on... I don't get how they've become as expensive as some local prestigious salon brands.
Yeah, that sort of thing is bad enough on products targeted at adults who might think to look at the list of product contents and spot the „inflation“ to the packaging by all those contents being visible through the window. But on stuff targeted at - Or most likely to appeal to - Children, this should be outlawed completely. 🧑⚖
Sometimes I dislike being European. But knowing, that many of those examples are illegal here gives me faith. I mean some of them are not just greedy, but downright digusting. Would never again buy from such a brand - and have stopped to do so with many brands so far. If I can feel a mentionable amount of air in any bag, I won't buy. They always like to print on the bags "filling height has technical reasons", then how does it come, that often way cheaper brands manage to fill the bags more?!
Trust me: The UK isn't much better: We're the same as the USA except that we speak English with a slightly more refined accent, and _insist_ in driving on the wrong¹ side of the road... 😉 (¹ - The only other country which does this - Excluding those under British influence - Is Japan, which reasonably implies that _right hand traffic_ is „right“ by majority assent. 🗳)
And we keep letting it happen over and over again. Until we stand and do or say something this shrinkflation/deception will get worse and worse. It's a game for them until we tell them we are not playing!
Many complain about the regulations and restrictions in Germany. Now, imagine a country where almost all of these client fooling techniques in this video are forbidden.
i saw a seemingly generous sized tub of multi coloured craft beads, in a store in my local town, which looked big enough to make about half a dozen, long necklaces out of but, when i picked it up, the beads shifted, slightly, & you could see a wide, plastic tube, almost filling the tub, with just a few beads around the edges, barely enough to make a couple of bracelets with!😒
And I am sure that the jars of creme have the content in grams it says. People measure things in shops with their eyes though. It remains manipulation of a low and deceptive order.
Yeah...But if you're going to sell a _Yard_ of chocolate, sell a proper *yard* of it...Not some „yard“ based on a measurement of my (UK) back garden, which incidentally we don't call „yards“ for a very good reason! 🤏😉 The only thing worse than this will be in a year or two, when that „Yard“ is formed of about ten bars placed end-to-end in the same sized box with card fenders on both sides. You'll get about half the product, but still pay the same price as today... 🍫💸😣
The Merci one doesn't really seem deceiving, as the marketers wanted to show the chocolate as a gift to someone. They do advertise "Give thanks (Merci) to someone" and I do enjoy their chocolates. Plus, it doesn't say anywhere on the packaging you would get more than one box of chocolate. Look at the window, it was clearly made for that specific size of chocolate box. They don't want to cover any part of the chocolate box and so they made an extra box for it.
Tip for those coming to japan: if it does not display an image of cut real fruit, it doesn't contain any. Also look for 果汁 xx% on such containers for the amount of fruit juice.
And on this same front: If you intend to drive, *do not* drink out of cans with Braille writing on the top of them. 🍺🚗⚠ (In Japan, canned drinks containing alcohol have this noted in Braille on the top to assist the blind. 👍)
Our price tags have a price per weight mandatory added. So u can see immediately what’s up. But I think the price per weight should be written just as tall as the actual price
This can sometimes be abused, too. In the UK the cost per weight (Typically pence per gram) has to be displayed by law, but the _unit_ of weight chosen for that measurement is down to the retailer - The only stipulation to that is it must be a Metric unit. ⚖ I've lost count of the number of times I've had to mentally adjust the given cost-per-weight on label B (Which gives GBP per Kg) to make a balanced comparison with label A (In pence per 100g) and the only thing that saves me a lot of headaches is the fact it must _always_ be decimal units. If the UK ever went back to imperial - And I had to start making comparisons between label C (In shillings per Lb) and label D ( _d_ per oz) - I would be well and truly fc🇬🇧ed. 😳
@ True. It’s a bit annoying that one product has €/kg and the other has €/100g. But since it’s just a decimal it should be manageable for most. But still unnecessary… one would be enough. But when there are imperials in the game, it’s completely useless… That is why everything has to be regulated. All businesses put any profit over common sense
Speaking as a disabled UK citizen with fc🇬🇧-all money; I just wish the isolationism of others in my country wasn't making me forbidden in the EU, too... ♿🛂⛔🇪🇺😭
I'm not trying to defend all of these, but some of these are clearly defects or mistakes. Like the corndog without the hotdog was obviously a defect. And the seedless sticker on the melon was probably just someone at the grocery store who wasn't paying attention. Those clearly weren't intentionally deceitful.
HONESTLY !, THE INTELLIGENCE OF THE CREATORS OF SUCH PACKAGING IS REFLECTED IN THEIR CREATIONS. WE ALL SHOP AND MOST OF US KNOW HOW TO. AND PERSONALLY, I'D NEVER FALL FOR ANY OF THESE MISLEADING PRODUCTS.
Funnily enough, it's illegal most, if not all, places. It's just that most major companies have enough money to either win the case flat out, or make the other party waste so much of their money that they just give up entirely.
The Pret wrap and the Asda pizza are both UK examples, so it *does* happen here too. 🙁 What I would give to be a consumer affairs magistrate with the power to summarily shut-down and wind up companies which do this... 🧑⚖👍
I just bought a wafer roll in long packaging box 10 packs written on the box when I open it, it contain 10 packs of wafer roll with half the size of the long box so it actually contain only 5 wafer rolls, but cut in half, and you got 10 packs 😅
It has everything to do with the packaging. When those sandwich halves are stacked in the package, all you are is the cut edge with the filling. You don’t see the empty bread behind the small bit of filling.
@@capers72424 It would still be a rip-off if it had no packaging at all, if they just presented it on a plate. The packaging certainly helps hide the rip off though.
I looked up package pictures of the Sudefed's. And sure enough each had what was listed as active ingredients and nothing more. I could not believe that. I've always seen differences in the US packages not the same crap in box after box like the UK. Wow. And when will we have a law that allows consumers to tie up makers of such packages an drag them down the street to be egged by other people? Come on you know it's needed.
always look at the ounces or the item count. The people whining about the candy bars shouldn't be, it says 18 on the front. They got 18 even if the middle was just air, there were 18 normal sized bars. The food with basically nothing in the center I agree is wrong. If I get scammed, I NEVER buy that item again. When I get something new to me, I only buy 1 to make sure before I spend more money on them. They may get me once, but only once will it happen.
The Snickers Yard is not false advertising. On the front it says that there are 18 and there are 9 on the left and 9 on the right. No deception. You get exactly what it says.
How is the facial tissue thing even legal!? Same with the " Vitamin A enriched chips" ! And the stupid seedless melon? Why! That is just pure deception.
We are all being ripped off wholesale, it's about time we started taking back the items and complaining. As usual, the item shrinks and the price expands.
Half of these deceptions could be easily avoided by just reading the actual weight/amount/number of items of the content, that should be exposed somewhere on the packaging. And that cactus flowers are made of paper and glued on them, has been obvious to me since I was 4, but I was fine with it, I never saw it as a deception, just as a decoration that made my cherished little plant prettier.
Remember things with a upc can sometimes be buy one get one free..contact the company sometimes you will get. A check Or a replacement.I’ve gotten,diapers,coffe,pizza,bread,waffles,chocolate,checks for money,and so much more.by contacting the company,especially if you feel Ike you have been cheated
Oh the amount of shonky advertising & packaging in the world 😳 Devious little buggers who know that 99% of customers won’t do anything about it but complain. Do they not understand repeat business is where the money is???
Restocked my dogs dry food the other day and the 50 lb. Bag is now 40 lbs but the shelf sticker still had the $25.67 price for 50 lbs. The 40 lb bag has a "bonus 4 lbs free" label on it, so 6 lbs less for the 50 lb price right? Nope, it rang up at $27.67. Luckily this wal mart had 2 manned registers open so at least I didn't have give myself my own fucking I guess
It's frustrating to see all the deceptive packaging, and that it is somehow legal, but what really grinds my gears is the obscene amount of packing waste (i.e. single use plastic/packaging) that goes into all of these falsities.
@@LydiaHarper1019 It has been my observation that one of the more major contributors to the packaging waste is the self-care industry. I'm actually working on sourcing products for self-care that use as little as waste as possible. There is a burgeoning industry to support these type of consumer choices.
Poor planet... >:/
Yeah, every time I see these companies talking about being "environmentally friendly," I tend to ignore them because they are massive hypocrites.
This is the price of freedom in the U.S. from my POV:
The industry is allowed to do whatever they want even this is smelling like lying or betraying. In another video I saw a package of 1000 plastic bricks containing only 523...
In Germany we have a couple of organisations and laws protecting customers from such behaviour. It is not allowed to promiss and don't deliver, it is not allowed to use bad-quality ingredients, if something breaks due to normal use within the first two years you give it back and get it repaired for free or a new device for free, organisational test look for sad quality or allergens and companies must take back all their bad products. Bigger packages with less quantity and higher price is reported in TV magazines or newspaper. Based on this I like regulated Germany and feel saver.
It’s important not only to never buy the product again, but to actually make the effort to return it to the store (who shares culpability) so they don’t make get away with it even once.
What aggravates me is manufacturers who seem to think we're stupid and we'll accept all this deceptive packaging without question.
What’s sad is how many people do accept it because actually doing something about it is just too much hassle & expense
Apparently we keep accepting it because they keep making it and getting away with it.
They don't actually care cuz they know noone's gonna do anything about it. And I'm pretty sure they don't care if most people won't buy it again after 1st time because they're just gonna move to another product once it stops selling and repeat the process. I think the only way to prevent this is country banning such packaging but I highly doubt any country is gonna deal with this.
If the vast majority weren't accepting it, it wouldn't be done.
There are often better options & people simply keep allowing themselves to be treated this way.
It's demographics. Some groups of people are too stupid to know the difference.
This is crime. And it's happening everywhere, right before our eyes. Quite apart from the criminal waste of packaging,
Consumer also pays cost of wasteful deceptive packaging-- so screwed twice; first on product then on excess paper and plastic.
home depot glued a plastic flower to my catus, and i had been taking care of it for about 2 months and only just thought “hey, why has this flower not dried up?” so i got it off (gently) and now it has a scar, but doin good 👍
That’s terrible 😞
Poor cactus :(
My daughter in law bought a cactus from Walmart. She named it Gregg.
This is how we learned about the glued flowers.
I fell for that Walmart cactus scam too. I try to be vigilant but I never dreamed anyone would do that!
@@carlabamford9154 I know! It’s low key dark. Think she still has that fake flower...
Well, hopefully Gregg is ok with being flower free but loved anyway. I hate companies that scam & get away with it. When I was young I wanted to own a supermarket & charge 15% profit over expenses. I figured I’d make my fortune out of repeat business instead of bumping up prices to the 400% + that too many are at. Unfortunately I never had the money to start out. Maybe my next lifetime
@@allisonjames2923 That plan assumes intelligent consumers. You saved yourself a lot of heartache.
Gregg knew about the flower, but did he warn you?!
No.
No. He. Did. Not.
Yeah, 30 or 40 percent bigger grocery bill is about all you can expect. This kind of garbage is just infuriating.
Not to mention 30-40% *less* product to take home with you...
In Germany this behaviour is illegal! It will be reported in TV and magazines. The goverment set up some organisations and laws to protect people decades before. You should have something like this - the unlimited freedom in US is a green card for this criminal behaviour.
That sandwich is just pure criminal
Anyone who thinks it’s a bad thing when you receive less of a Hershey’s product than you expected clearly has never tasted Hershey’s chocolate… they did you a favour!
Tastes like wax to me.
I'm from the UK...And ever since Mondelez bought-out Cadbury a couple of years ago, exactly the same could be said for „Dairy“ „Milk“ too. It genuinely tastes like Brexit💩... 🍫🇬🇧🤮
Cadbury used to proudly claim there was a „Glass and a half“ (Maybe 300ml) of milk in every pound (454g) of their chocolate. Under Mondelez, it seems to have become a *thimble* and a half (7,5ml) in every kilogram (2lb 2oz)... 🙁
they def have changed the recipe, tastes like oil now rather than chocolate
Same can be said for Cadburys. Since Mondelez bought them up, their chocolate has genuinely tasted like 💩.
The worst chocolate I ever tasted in my life. And it literally STINKS too. How Americans can eat that garbage is beyond me.
Long term this is not a sustainable policy by these companies.
I once tried a new coffee that I really liked but the jar was only half full and the empty plastic lid was half of the container.
Even though I liked it I have never bought it again!
We have deceiving sandwiches at grocery stores and convenience stores in the US. Not as bad as the one at 1:00 but very close! After watching the entire video from now on any time I get deceived, I'm taking the product back to the store for a refund. Thank you for this video!!
The one that would tick me off the most is the sandwich because sometimes I grab one of those convenient wrapped ones for lunch, and get hungry in the middle of the day. Thankfully never had such a thing happen to me.
The moral of the story is to always flip over packages before buying them
1:09 i'm going to assume that most of these pictures are in the usa? because in the UK , selling crayons like that is either illegal ( false advertising ) or would get such bad publicity for the company, that they ' could ' go out of business.
It’s illegal in the US too - false advertising. Especially the products which don’t even remotely resemble the package or ads. Sadly they know that very few people will make a complaint. And they can claim with some products that they use the same packaging as a larger product to save costs. Shonky to the Max!
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Under Section 43(a) of the Lanham Act, a claim can be made against a defendant for false or misleading advertising. For a claim against a defendant for false advertising, the following elements are met and the plaintiff must show: (1) defendant made false or misleading statements as to his own products (or another’s); (2) actual deception, or at least a tendency to deceive a substantial portion of the intended audience; (3) deception is material in that it is likely to influence purchasing decisions; (4) the advertised goods travel in interstate commerce; and (5) a likelihood of injury to plaintiff. However, the plaintiff does not have to prove actual injury.”
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There's a couple of UK examples in this too, though. The _Half pepperoni_ pizza toward the end is an Asda product, and Asda (Though wholly owned/controlled by Wal-mart 🇺🇸) *only* operate in the UK.
There's also a well distributed example of a £3,50 Pret wrap with some _value added_ air concealed in the middle of the packaging, and the „French“ sandwich at 00:56 has packaging and bread style very closely matching that of one of the major British sandwich producers, so I don't think that was _made_ in France. 🥪🏭🇬🇧
And let's face it; The UK has fallen for the biggest ad/packaging scam in history. Still haven't seen a single penny of that extra £43m/week for the NHS which so many (Not including myself) voted for... 😉
@dieseldragon6756I'm a former Labour voter I honestly wasn't expecting much this time.
(I still refuse to vote reform or conservative, they're worse)
Why though. People just won’t buy again whereas if you made even a semi decent product the return customers would mean more profit but long term rather than short term. I don’t understand the logic.
It’s the stupid farmer who killed the golden goose-no thought for the future of the brand. I’m guessing the Execs who make the most money aren’t paying attention-I doubt if they’ve ever been in a Walmart or ALDI
0:39 although that is annoying , finding a pill inside a capsule, its the fact that americans have to pay for their medicines which should be illegal.
For medicines that have been out for years already I would agree with you. For developing new medicines, to do so safely and with the right kind of research is extremely expensive and that cost needs to be recouped somehow.
Canadians have to pay for prescription drugs as well - unless you have a drug plan from work.
We have to pay for prescriptions in the UK, but a set price unless you're on benefits or elderly or disabled.
I want to know how these companies get away with this and aren't dinged somehow for false advertising
_„Too much hush money ending up in the pockets of public representatives“_ is one way to explain that... 💰
Some of these are utterly appalling. The manufacturers should be ashamed of themselves for such cheap marketing tactics. Disgusting. I suggest viewers make a note of these brands.
I have never encountered these kinds of problems here in Canada. I think our labelling laws are quite strict. They might make a package look bigger than it is.....but other than that not seen anything like these!
Boycott these products and the companies that manufacture them!😤😡
enlightening, thanks
7:26 powders like baby powder settle in transit, and you’re paying by weight not by volume so you are not being ripped off
For many of these items the weight is listed on the packaging. The manufacturer is counting on you not looking too closely at the weight, and just going by package size. Look at the weight, my friends!
Yeah, I remember weight disclaimers like that on the cereal boxes I used to get.
2:35 makes it look like the Red M&M look like he's saying: "Take it or leave it"
There ought to be a site where all these frauds are exposed.
There is, it is called TH-cam.
I remember many years ago buying some donuts that were supposed to be filled with jam. One only had a minuscule amount of jam in there, the rest were completely empty! At the time I thought it was an honest mistake (someone forgot to refill the machine?) but now I'm wondering if it was intentional...
Young Madonna was fired from Dunkin for 'playing w/the jelly squirter'.
As she told Johnny Carson; hope that helps!
Bought a can of raspberries in syrup once and there were NO raspberries in the tin at all. Wrote to the cannery who refused to believe me but sent me a voucher for another can as a goodwill gesture.
up up up !!
3:38 You exposed their "Secret" to higher profits LMAO!
Dam, people really going all out just so they can get more money...
"Hey Tod, how should we get more money?"
"(Tod, drunk af) What if we put more packaging around our product, raised it's price and said it's a better version?"
"Tod you're a f-ing genius, I'm giving you a raise"
This is too true.
you have the deodorant description twice… first for the deodorant and then it stayed for the herbs de Providence
There ought to be a law, but the only law is that these corporations grease the palms of "our" govt, I guess.
The saddest thing is that a lot of these products are from really big, long established companies. Does nobody care about their reputation any more?
They don't care if a product fails. The parent company makes tons of other products. All they care about is money to make the shareholders happy each quarter. Even if it is a short term gain they'll take it and stick it on their customers.
I think Wall Street needs to be destroyed. That adds to the cost, as we all know. What gets me is that if a company needs other people's money to operate on they need to close their doors. Look at Walmart 2023 or 2024. They made 17 billion dollar profit. Now, why in the hell do they need stock holders for?
Back in the days when our grandparents had businesses, they would reinvest some of their profit back into the business to make it grow. It might have been a little slow growing, but it was a solid business they could rely on. And they were honest as could be. Also dealt with only American products, none of this Chinese junk.
the Belief brand should be called Disbelief
2:38 I would still eat that
Pantene have been doing this sh*t in my country for 8 years now. They advertise some new product claiming it now has some new top-notch ingredient, and when you see the amount of stuff or check the ingredients list, you see right through the BS. They've been slowly replacing the 400ml (which used to be 475ml back in the day) shampoos and conditioners with 300ml ones. Their styling creams don't have hydrolyzed proteins anymore, but are more expensive than they were in 2019 because of course they are. Their hair masks, ampoules and conditioners are literally the same product but with different packaging and different prices (same ingredients list in the same order), the fancy shampoo bottles cost more even if they have less product than the classic packaging (and still almost same formula), and the list goes on...
I don't get how they've become as expensive as some local prestigious salon brands.
Every little girl's disappoint :
The bracelet box
Whyyy😭
Yeah, that sort of thing is bad enough on products targeted at adults who might think to look at the list of product contents and spot the „inflation“ to the packaging by all those contents being visible through the window. But on stuff targeted at - Or most likely to appeal to - Children, this should be outlawed completely. 🧑⚖
Sometimes I dislike being European. But knowing, that many of those examples are illegal here gives me faith. I mean some of them are not just greedy, but downright digusting. Would never again buy from such a brand - and have stopped to do so with many brands so far. If I can feel a mentionable amount of air in any bag, I won't buy. They always like to print on the bags "filling height has technical reasons", then how does it come, that often way cheaper brands manage to fill the bags more?!
Trust me: The UK isn't much better: We're the same as the USA except that we speak English with a slightly more refined accent, and _insist_ in driving on the wrong¹ side of the road... 😉
(¹ - The only other country which does this - Excluding those under British influence - Is Japan, which reasonably implies that _right hand traffic_ is „right“ by majority assent. 🗳)
Why do you dislike being European? 😂
@ Because Europe has laws and regulations I totally do not agree with. It is overly restrictive in some regards.
The volume of the contents is right there on the package.
Most of those products I haven't seen at stores, what country they're from? Thanks
And we keep letting it happen over and over again. Until we stand and do or say something this shrinkflation/deception will get worse and worse. It's a game for them until we tell them we are not playing!
So...people still don't know to
a) read the package weight
b) expect big business to take every possible advantage?
Here's another deception : packs half full of air to give the appearance of plentiful amount of savoury snacks!
Many complain about the regulations and restrictions in Germany. Now, imagine a country where almost all of these client fooling techniques in this video are forbidden.
I like how all the m&ms were right side up on the ice cream sandwich, not one w.
i saw a seemingly generous sized tub of multi coloured craft beads, in a store in my local town, which looked big enough to make about half a dozen, long necklaces out of but, when i picked it up, the beads shifted, slightly, & you could see a wide, plastic tube, almost filling the tub, with just a few beads around the edges, barely enough to make a couple of bracelets with!😒
To be fair, the yard-long boxes of candy bars state that there are 18 candy bars.
And I am sure that the jars of creme have the content in grams it says. People measure things in shops with their eyes though. It remains manipulation of a low and deceptive order.
Yeah...But if you're going to sell a _Yard_ of chocolate, sell a proper *yard* of it...Not some „yard“ based on a measurement of my (UK) back garden, which incidentally we don't call „yards“ for a very good reason! 🤏😉
The only thing worse than this will be in a year or two, when that „Yard“ is formed of about ten bars placed end-to-end in the same sized box with card fenders on both sides. You'll get about half the product, but still pay the same price as today... 🍫💸😣
The Merci one doesn't really seem deceiving, as the marketers wanted to show the chocolate as a gift to someone. They do advertise "Give thanks (Merci) to someone" and I do enjoy their chocolates. Plus, it doesn't say anywhere on the packaging you would get more than one box of chocolate. Look at the window, it was clearly made for that specific size of chocolate box. They don't want to cover any part of the chocolate box and so they made an extra box for it.
Tip for those coming to japan: if it does not display an image of cut real fruit, it doesn't contain any. Also look for 果汁 xx% on such containers for the amount of fruit juice.
And on this same front: If you intend to drive, *do not* drink out of cans with Braille writing on the top of them. 🍺🚗⚠
(In Japan, canned drinks containing alcohol have this noted in Braille on the top to assist the blind. 👍)
Our price tags have a price per weight mandatory added. So u can see immediately what’s up. But I think the price per weight should be written just as tall as the actual price
This can sometimes be abused, too. In the UK the cost per weight (Typically pence per gram) has to be displayed by law, but the _unit_ of weight chosen for that measurement is down to the retailer - The only stipulation to that is it must be a Metric unit. ⚖
I've lost count of the number of times I've had to mentally adjust the given cost-per-weight on label B (Which gives GBP per Kg) to make a balanced comparison with label A (In pence per 100g) and the only thing that saves me a lot of headaches is the fact it must _always_ be decimal units. If the UK ever went back to imperial - And I had to start making comparisons between label C (In shillings per Lb) and label D ( _d_ per oz) - I would be well and truly fc🇬🇧ed. 😳
@ True. It’s a bit annoying that one product has €/kg and the other has €/100g. But since it’s just a decimal it should be manageable for most. But still unnecessary… one would be enough.
But when there are imperials in the game, it’s completely useless…
That is why everything has to be regulated. All businesses put any profit over common sense
I confess I have flipped over chip packages in stores. :)
Those things are forbidden in the EU
Speaking as a disabled UK citizen with fc🇬🇧-all money; I just wish the isolationism of others in my country wasn't making me forbidden in the EU, too... ♿🛂⛔🇪🇺😭
I'm not trying to defend all of these, but some of these are clearly defects or mistakes. Like the corndog without the hotdog was obviously a defect. And the seedless sticker on the melon was probably just someone at the grocery store who wasn't paying attention. Those clearly weren't intentionally deceitful.
HONESTLY !, THE INTELLIGENCE OF THE CREATORS OF SUCH PACKAGING IS REFLECTED IN THEIR CREATIONS. WE ALL SHOP AND MOST OF US KNOW HOW TO. AND PERSONALLY, I'D NEVER FALL FOR ANY OF THESE MISLEADING PRODUCTS.
7:39 Normally these have more filling and delicious unless the factory is skimping out now.
The biggest single use/plastic/packaging event in the world is .... Halloween!
Nesquick contains 0% rabbit, what a scam!
I recall drinking strawberry nesquik. Never again. I was as sick as a dog. 😮🤢
The pizza one isn't that bad just rearranged the pepperoni 😊❤️
Amazing. I don't think this kind of thing is allowed in the UK.
Funnily enough, it's illegal most, if not all, places. It's just that most major companies have enough money to either win the case flat out, or make the other party waste so much of their money that they just give up entirely.
The Pret wrap and the Asda pizza are both UK examples, so it *does* happen here too. 🙁
What I would give to be a consumer affairs magistrate with the power to summarily shut-down and wind up companies which do this... 🧑⚖👍
Well the yard boxes clearly state that there are 18 bars contained within. I'd say read the label again and you're expecting exactly what you get.
I just bought a wafer roll in long packaging box
10 packs written on the box
when I open it, it contain 10 packs of wafer roll with half the size of the long box
so it actually contain only 5 wafer rolls, but cut in half, and you got 10 packs 😅
1:02 is nothing to with packaging, that's just a f*cking rip-off!
It has everything to do with the packaging. When those sandwich halves are stacked in the package, all you are is the cut edge with the filling. You don’t see the empty bread behind the small bit of filling.
@@capers72424 It would still be a rip-off if it had no packaging at all, if they just presented it on a plate. The packaging certainly helps hide the rip off though.
@@christopherdean1326 yep, so pay close attention to all the information offered.
1:16 I mean at least this one is honest. There are 18 snickers in there
At least with the twix you get 18 bars as it´s advertizen on the box..
this is downright scamming and should be illegal 😠
Comparable is Cauliflower. There is a lot of green leaves, that you can't recognize, what small ball it is
Makes you never want to support those brands again.
The thumbnail almost looked like it says "no armadillos" at first
I looked up package pictures of the Sudefed's. And sure enough each had what was listed as active ingredients and nothing more. I could not believe that. I've always seen differences in the US packages not the same crap in box after box like the UK. Wow.
And when will we have a law that allows consumers to tie up makers of such packages an drag them down the street to be egged by other people? Come on you know it's needed.
The ones who came up with these packages need to be punished
6:27 song: hyperfun
We have only ourselves to blame for electing officials to allow this.
always look at the ounces or the item count. The people whining about the candy bars shouldn't be, it says 18 on the front. They got 18 even if the middle was just air, there were 18 normal sized bars. The food with basically nothing in the center I agree is wrong. If I get scammed, I NEVER buy that item again. When I get something new to me, I only buy 1 to make sure before I spend more money on them. They may get me once, but only once will it happen.
The Snickers Yard is not false advertising. On the front it says that there are 18 and there are 9 on the left and 9 on the right. No deception. You get exactly what it says.
Lawsuit. If subway gets dinged for the size of their footlong, then One should be in the works for the Candy bars at best
fine
With the sneakers it does say18 bars and that's what s in the box but I understand the optical illusion is a bit of a cheat
At first I thought these were being staged for views, but...unbelievable deception and should be criminal.
How is the facial tissue thing even legal!? Same with the " Vitamin A enriched chips" ! And the stupid seedless melon? Why! That is just pure deception.
The snickers didn’t lie. It said 18 bars and it had 18 bars
We are all being ripped off wholesale, it's about time we started taking back the items and complaining. As usual, the item shrinks and the price expands.
Purtroppo è un classico prendere per i fondelli noi poveri "consumatori" 😢😢
Half of these deceptions could be easily avoided by just reading the actual weight/amount/number of items of the content, that should be exposed somewhere on the packaging. And that cactus flowers are made of paper and glued on them, has been obvious to me since I was 4, but I was fine with it, I never saw it as a deception, just as a decoration that made my cherished little plant prettier.
7:31= if you can see it in the supermarket, you must not buy it and take a picture at home
Remember things with a upc can sometimes be buy one get one free..contact the company sometimes you will get. A check Or a replacement.I’ve gotten,diapers,coffe,pizza,bread,waffles,chocolate,checks for money,and so much more.by contacting the company,especially if you feel
Ike you have been cheated
False advertising should be illegal, jerks.
Surely this is classed as fraud. 🇬🇧
2:45 IT’S CORN-
Uhhh 3:46
Disgusting... Authorized lies and deceits. >:/
You'll be pleased to know, but these wouldn't be allowed in Europe.
4:50 that is seedless
Whatever happen to repeat customer and who approves of false advertising?
*dies in anger*
Also people need to stop bying products with palm oil, like Oreo, unsustainable palm oil is evil!
4:14 You don't even live in Malaysia!
Oh the amount of shonky advertising & packaging in the world 😳 Devious little buggers who know that 99% of customers won’t do anything about it but complain. Do they not understand repeat business is where the money is???
What's new
and your other half has always insisted size doesn't matter?
But advertisers know better
Restocked my dogs dry food the other day and the 50 lb. Bag is now 40 lbs but the shelf sticker still had the $25.67 price for 50 lbs. The 40 lb bag has a "bonus 4 lbs free" label on it, so 6 lbs less for the 50 lb price right? Nope, it rang up at $27.67. Luckily this wal mart had 2 manned registers open so at least I didn't have give myself my own fucking I guess