this post was submitted on 05 Sep 2025
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This is a community for designs specifically crafted to make the experience worse for the user. This can be due to greed, apathy, laziness or just downright scumbaggery.

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Joke's on them, I ate them all and now my tummy hurts

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[โ€“] newthrowaway20@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

You don't go on just weight alone, that doesn't tell you much of anything. You need weight and price.

For me personally, it's a hell of a lot easier to see how far your money is actually going when you keep track of the price per oz vs just watching the total price since they change price and size pretty regularly.

[โ€“] Gork@sopuli.xyz -1 points 1 month ago (3 children)

They'll just make the tray heavier ๐Ÿค”

[โ€“] newthrowaway20@lemmy.world 13 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

They can, but it wouldn't matter. The weight on the packaging is the weight of the product in the package, not the package itself.

[โ€“] chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 month ago

Is packaging material actually cheaper by weight than candy?

[โ€“] Jake_Farm@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

That would be fraud. There are legal requirements for this.

[โ€“] tehmics@lemmy.world 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

C'mon man, you're almost there. Make one more connection

[โ€“] Jake_Farm@sopuli.xyz -1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The type of packaging is not regulated by shape or size. I am not making the claim packaging shouldn't be regulated, just that comparing weight and price ratios will help you not be tricked by this.

[โ€“] tehmics@lemmy.world -2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

will help you not be tricked

Oh, so that's the problem. You don't understand the point of the conversation

[โ€“] Jake_Farm@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I guess I have, I thought this post was criticizing the deceptive packaging.

[โ€“] tehmics@lemmy.world -2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Yes, and criticizing is not the same as 'getting tricked by'

[โ€“] Jake_Farm@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 month ago

Then how did they open the package?