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I hate when I get to the supermarket, can't find the product I want, and then find something *similar* looking but which may or may not be the same thing. Darn it, they've gone and changed the packaging again. Sometimes they even change the name of the flavor.
(For example, just tonight Wheat Thins
Low Sodium crackers became Wheat Thins "Hint of Salt").
In vain, I check the ingredients and nutrition percentages, but I never remember if they are the same figures as before.
Often, I have a half-opened package of the old kind at home; this presents a dilemma: Do I go home and check the numbers and come back another day, or take a chance on the new box?
How easy and convenient it would be if supermarkets kept one old box -- not for sale -- on the shelves just to help people compare the new packaging to the old.
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Good idea. I've had the same frustration a few times. [+] |
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Old box reads transfats. New box reads transfats. |
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Yes very good idea. Also helps recycle. To a small
degree but it helps. |
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They could incorporate the old packaging (OP) in a formula : [[OP-30g]+single wrap]/2fat = New Product |
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In this case it is probably the case that 'Low Sodium' implies that it is appropriate as part of a low sodium diet where as 'Hint of salt' implies there is salt and therfore is not appropriate. |
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By referencing the fact that this was formerly a low sodium product it may cause less people to buy as they would assume there is now more salt in the product. |
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Im not for this, as a very nice whisky changed its packaging and the supermarket thought it had changed the contents and so sold off the stock at a large discount |
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We are in the days of iphone apps and ubiquitous internet connectivity (well at least those of you outside the borders of my country). Why not bar-code based "cloud" relational database of previous packaging. Frees up valuable shelf real estate, and provides consumer info. Of course, getting brand owners to buy-in is still a problem. There are generally very considered reasons when changing "ice-cream" to "frozen desert" or "low sodium" to "hint of salt", for example. |
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//There are generally very considered reasons when changing// |
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Well obviously. I'm eagerly awaiting the next evolutionary move of the razor. I'm expecting one of those missing link kind of jumps in which it forms a symbiotic relationship with toothbrushes. |
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<mis-quoting theonion.com article> Fuck five blades, we are gonna ramp it up. I don't care if we need to put blades on the fucking handle. </mis quote> |
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There is a tee-shirt in that... |
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wasn't that long ago "5 blades" was a joke... I'm still not sure it isn't. |
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//why not bar-code based "cloud" relational database of previous packaging.// |
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I could also photograph all my brands at home with a digital camera and carry the pictures with me at all times. But supermarkets could solve the problem for everyone in one swoop, today, with no electronics required. |
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Hey, I am olde shooley! I would love this, I just see my future being wipped away by numerical progression, which I add to as one of the proponents of data compression by libraries, and binary optimisations. You live by the sword, you die by it, I suppose... |
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One recent example is trying to find the list of vitamins on a cereal box. It was gone to make room for a themed promotion, only basic nutrition information left. Much better to have a software app that warned e.g. "this edition has traces of peanut" - [link]. |
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Deleted anno refering to a popular operating system provider after suffering a disk head crash later that evening. I can now say I really like using XP and am pleased to be back online on a different computer after purchasing a few connectors, network adapters and a tinfoil hat. |
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