They’re careful to make sure the bottle still looks the same from the front, but from the side you can see the difference.

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    10 months ago

    Volume is an illusion, I can never tell how much anything is by the size of the bottle anyway.

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      10 months ago

      You’re being downvoted, but I think its because of how you said it, rather than what you meant.

      It’s actually very true that human brains often do poorly at understanding volume.

      I used to work in a bar, and we had two different shapes of glasses. One was shorter than the other but slightly fatter. Both glasses held exactly 1 pint, but customers always thought the shorter glass was smaller.

      And that is exactly the point.

      Manufacturers are depending on psychological tricks like these to give a false impression of how much product they are selling, and it works.

      That’s why we should look at the labels.

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        10 months ago

        Show me one ounce vs one and half ounces.

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            10 months ago

            In container size of what you think you need and it’s very expensive.

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              10 months ago

              You asked them to show those weights when they were talking about labels. So they are absolutely right.

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      10 months ago

      True, but if the bottle looks the same as it used to without looking really close, you’re likely to think it is the same as always whether you know the original volume or not.

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      I’ve long made comparisons and purchase decisions by the unit price. This kind of thing can blindside me when ordering online though, if it’s a product I get regularly and I don’t happen to catch the change. Hopefully they won’t try to keep the picture the same, but I know in the past they’ve lagged on updating them for packaging changes that didn’t affect the product so they can probably get away with that easily in this case as well. :/

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        10 months ago

        I find it most problematic when I’m trying to figure out how much to get so I don’t get way too much or too little.