Another price increase & reduced size & failed packaging
Whenarewethere said
01:00 PM Jul 23, 2023
Dairy Farmers pure cream was typically $5.10 for 600ml in cardboard container, convenient & easy to pour. Packaging was design genius.
Now $5.50 for 500ml in a plastic container which is miserable to pour.
Hung, drawn & quartered comes to mind!
Bobdown said
01:49 PM Jul 23, 2023
Tough luck, think there are worse problems in the world.
Possum3 said
02:11 PM Jul 23, 2023
Marketing gurus have been devising ways to give less product for more money for years - Go back to Colgate in the 70's by increasing hole in tube, customers used more because they applied a similar length onto the toothbrush.
Whenarewethere said
02:26 PM Jul 23, 2023
I do agree that there are infinitely worse issues in the world, but really. Another backwards step or three!
What's that saying... 'A death by a thousand cuts'
I sent an email to Dairy Farmers. Maybe next week I will send a physical copy in the mail to the CEO. Done that before with other companies.
Dear Dairy Farmers. Your design team has completely failed on the new 500ml plastic packaging.
A post I made on a forum which clearly states my thoughts on your revised product:
Dairy Farmers pure cream was typically $5.10 for 600ml in cardboard container, convenient & easy to pour. Packaging was design genius.
Now $5.50 for 500ml in a plastic container which is miserable to pour.
Hung, drawn & quartered comes to mind!'
It would be appreciated if you could Hang, draw & quarter your design team.
Yours sincerely, Jonathan.
Please feel free to phone me on 0417 xxx xxx to further discuss your design failure.
Mein said
08:44 PM Jul 23, 2023
I realize that Whenarewethere's concerns are; reduced product amount, increased price and diminished pouring convenience. However, the real surprise for me is that Dairy Farmers has changed their packaging from paper to plastic, which is exactly opposite to what seems to be currently underway in our society.
Are We Lost said
10:05 PM Jul 23, 2023
Ah, but in a year or two they will be able to announce their new eco friendly carboard packaging. Now in two sizes .... one smaller, one larger, but no longer with rounded numbers for the contents ... so it is not easy to mentally compare prices with others brands or each other. Maybe 280ml and 530ml or something like that.
Cassie63 said
07:21 AM Jul 24, 2023
How about western star butter, 500grams was recently $5 now $7.50. Bloody hell.
Whenarewethere said
07:43 AM Jul 24, 2023
My main gripe was the packaging. The cardboard packaging was brilliant.
Poured brilliantly. Once initially open could be reopen one handed.
When closed the packaging would seal.
Then some f...wit comes up with a packaging failure on every level that I can think of.
Probably cost millions setting up new production machinery.
Whenarewethere said
07:49 AM Jul 24, 2023
Another recent product was Madelines sold in Woolworths. No where new as good as proper ones in France... but bearable.
The packaging had 11 then they redesigned the packaging to 8.
Basically the same price.
Whenarewethere said
08:15 AM Jul 24, 2023
Are We Lost wrote:
Ah, but in a year or two they will be able to announce their new eco friendly carboard packaging. Now in two sizes .... one smaller, one larger, but no longer with rounded numbers for the contents ... so it is not easy to mentally compare prices with others brands or each other. Maybe 280ml and 530ml or something like that.
283ml & 537ml
Whenarewethere said
08:27 AM Jul 24, 2023
Also always check your receipts. About 1 in 3 there is a price discrepancy. Often I photograph the shelf price, saves me work.
Some shops you get the product for free (first one of multiple purchases).
At the very least I enjoy grinding the system down. In other words costs them more money due to managerial failure. I am in all support for the poor worker. Anything to stick my finger up failed management.
Craig1 said
10:12 AM Jul 24, 2023
"How about western star butter, 500grams was recently $5 now $7.50. Bloody hell. "
Cassie, we went to Aldi Brand, also on the Cholesterol Reducing Margarine, both around /under $5
rmoor said
04:05 PM Jul 26, 2023
One wonders how bad the rip-offs with packaging and product reduction can get?
After a heavy dosage of cortisone for a while my weight went haywire, so went of chocolates, sugary drinks etc.
A few weeks ago Tim Tam's were on special so I thought I would break out for some luxury comfort food.
The PLASTIC inner section put a gap between biscuits almost as big as the Tim Tam's themselves!!!
So promised self, never another Tim Tam again for me - banned for life.
Whenarewethere said
05:40 PM Jul 29, 2023
Lebanese bread Peace Bakery from Coles
Old packaging 500g $1.60
New packaging still 500g now $2.70
Also increased is the salt.
Was 145mg / 100g
Now 182mg / 100g
Magnarc said
12:59 PM Jul 31, 2023
Whenarewethere wrote:
Dairy Farmers pure cream was typically $5.10 for 600ml in cardboard container, convenient & easy to pour. Packaging was design genius.
Now $5.50 for 500ml in a plastic container which is miserable to pour.
Hung, drawn & quartered comes to mind!
Gee, I wish that the above post was all that I had to worry about!!
Whenarewethere said
01:42 PM Jul 31, 2023
Lotus biscuits in Coles on special this week. $3.60, normally $4.50.
Used to be $2.00, then with further discounts. Sometimes as low as 50% off.
Same weight, nothing else has changed.
The above prices are indicative of the overall cost of living. Utility bills, Council rates, insurance, plumbing repairs.
I feel sorry for people not swimming in cash.
Gundog said
02:22 PM Jul 31, 2023
Have you thought about whats causing these price increases, lets start with a biodiversity tax on Australian farmers and the heavy road user tax is up an extra 6% every year for the next 3 years, thanks Grim Jim.
Farmers, Maunfacturing and almost every other employer passes on the wage and super increases, add to that red tape that pushes up the unit cost
And the biggest peanut from the peanut farm is blackout Bowens renewable power fallacy, the power might be cheap but the infastructure, transmission and stupid back hand salutes to the wind, solar and batteries manufacturers is killing everyone, not very much of that stuff is made locally, watch the money trail to China.
Whenarewethere said
02:28 PM Jul 31, 2023
Went through it all before in the 90s, I was a lucky one to keep my job, but nevertheless saw the endless excuses for 6 monthly price increase. Wish I kept some of the letters sent to customers. Brilliant sayings of just how much price increases would benefit everyone downstream.
Dairy Farmers pure cream was typically $5.10 for 600ml in cardboard container, convenient & easy to pour. Packaging was design genius.
Now $5.50 for 500ml in a plastic container which is miserable to pour.
Hung, drawn & quartered comes to mind!
Tough luck, think there are worse problems in the world.
I do agree that there are infinitely worse issues in the world, but really. Another backwards step or three!
What's that saying... 'A death by a thousand cuts'
I sent an email to Dairy Farmers. Maybe next week I will send a physical copy in the mail to the CEO. Done that before with other companies.
Dear Dairy Farmers. Your design team has completely failed on the new 500ml plastic packaging.
A post I made on a forum which clearly states my thoughts on your revised product:
'Another price increase & reduced size & failed packaging (topic title)
Dairy Farmers pure cream was typically $5.10 for 600ml in cardboard container, convenient & easy to pour. Packaging was design genius.
Now $5.50 for 500ml in a plastic container which is miserable to pour.
Hung, drawn & quartered comes to mind!'
It would be appreciated if you could Hang, draw & quarter your design team.
Yours sincerely, Jonathan.
Please feel free to phone me on 0417 xxx xxx to further discuss your design failure.
I realize that Whenarewethere's concerns are; reduced product amount, increased price and diminished pouring convenience. However, the real surprise for me is that Dairy Farmers has changed their packaging from paper to plastic, which is exactly opposite to what seems to be currently underway in our society.
My main gripe was the packaging. The cardboard packaging was brilliant.
Poured brilliantly. Once initially open could be reopen one handed.
When closed the packaging would seal.
Then some f...wit comes up with a packaging failure on every level that I can think of.
Probably cost millions setting up new production machinery.
Another recent product was Madelines sold in Woolworths. No where new as good as proper ones in France... but bearable.
The packaging had 11 then they redesigned the packaging to 8.
Basically the same price.
283ml & 537ml
Also always check your receipts. About 1 in 3 there is a price discrepancy. Often I photograph the shelf price, saves me work.
Some shops you get the product for free (first one of multiple purchases).
At the very least I enjoy grinding the system down. In other words costs them more money due to managerial failure. I am in all support for the poor worker. Anything to stick my finger up failed management.
Cassie, we went to Aldi Brand, also on the Cholesterol Reducing Margarine, both around /under $5
After a heavy dosage of cortisone for a while my weight went haywire, so went of chocolates, sugary drinks etc.
A few weeks ago Tim Tam's were on special so I thought I would break out for some luxury comfort food.
The PLASTIC inner section put a gap between biscuits almost as big as the Tim Tam's themselves!!!
So promised self, never another Tim Tam again for me - banned for life.
Lebanese bread Peace Bakery from Coles
Old packaging 500g $1.60
New packaging still 500g now $2.70
Also increased is the salt.
Was 145mg / 100g
Now 182mg / 100g
Gee, I wish that the above post was all that I had to worry about!!
Lotus biscuits in Coles on special this week. $3.60, normally $4.50.
Used to be $2.00, then with further discounts. Sometimes as low as 50% off.
Same weight, nothing else has changed.
The above prices are indicative of the overall cost of living. Utility bills, Council rates, insurance, plumbing repairs.
I feel sorry for people not swimming in cash.
Have you thought about whats causing these price increases, lets start with a biodiversity tax on Australian farmers and the heavy road user tax is up an extra 6% every year for the next 3 years, thanks Grim Jim.
Farmers, Maunfacturing and almost every other employer passes on the wage and super increases, add to that red tape that pushes up the unit cost
And the biggest peanut from the peanut farm is blackout Bowens renewable power fallacy, the power might be cheap but the infastructure, transmission and stupid back hand salutes to the wind, solar and batteries manufacturers is killing everyone, not very much of that stuff is made locally, watch the money trail to China.
Went through it all before in the 90s, I was a lucky one to keep my job, but nevertheless saw the endless excuses for 6 monthly price increase. Wish I kept some of the letters sent to customers. Brilliant sayings of just how much price increases would benefit everyone downstream.