From: Rick Blaine 
Newsgroups: misc.consumers.house
Subject: Re: Unit pricing shelf tags. Target household paper goods.
Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2006 16:55:03 -0600

"Harry K"  wrote:

>Why?  Your rate of use depends on the size of the sheet, not the total
>sq ft per roll or hundred ft 2.  That is one of my pet peeves.  About
>10 or 15 years ago, the paper towel rolls suddenly changed from being a
>square sheet to a rectangle so you used about 1/3 more towel per use
>than prior.  Neat way to get people to buy more towels without using
>any more sheets IOW a subtle customer rip-off.


Yep. And toilet paper has gone from 5x5 sheets to 4x4, tuna from 7 oz cans to 6
oz, coffee from 16 ounce cans to 13 or 12 and Lays Potato chips from 16 ounces
to 12. Hate companies that sneak price increases through that way.