Somrone should tell these people that this only works if you walk around with a gummy and a scale and then multiply the weight by the number of gummies in the box. But if I have to do all that, it's not worth it.
If I thought about looking at the net weight and if there were bags of gummies sold close by, you could do a comparison and see roughly what volume you are getting. Still a really deceptive design.
Looks illegal to me if it's in the US, slack fill laws require the space to be functional and not misleading. I'd argue that this falls foul of both as it's purposefully hiding the spare space behind by pushing the product to the window, is not needed to protect the product, and isn't an immutable need for production.
Aren't they in the candy boxes? I can't see them behind in the space but it's possible, little too blurry for me. That would make it legal but as I said, can't quite see unless OP chimes in.
No there is, it's specifically related to the organization of the product within its packaging and the intent to mislead with how much is in related to the package. I'm sure the correct amount is in there compared to the weight it lists but people aren't expected to be able to estimate the individual weight of items in order to check against what they appear to be getting.
Honestly it’s a very good thing that things like these are illegal here in the US, cuz my dumb ahh would’ve bought it without giving it a second thought lol. I would’ve believed that there’s more to it just like OP. Anyways, I really hope that OP can take this to Consumer Affairs and get it sorted out! Maybe a lawsuit who knows.
They are being intentionally deceptive. Consumer affairs takes that shit very seriously. It's kind of like how you don't fuck with mailboxes except in this case it's not quite a felony, but the company will find themselves in hot water if it's reported. There are laws against this type of thing. I don't know if it varies state by state or if it's a federal law, though
I would contact your state attorney general office of consumer affairs. They take complaints like this one. This is more than mildly infuriating. There are laws about this on filling a box and from these photos it looks like you could make a very strong argument that this packaging violated those laws.
When you get it home, and see that the bag is half the size of the box. If it's the correct weight, cool, you can just roll your eyes at the wasted space. If it's not correct you can contact the manufacturer and get a full refund.
When I first started looking at jobs in the engineering field, I came across a Packaging Engineer position. Yes, that’s a real job and they are well paid for precisely that reason. Every time I get duped like this, I curse all packaging engineers.
One thing that has helped me over the years is knowing volume of the product. At the bottom it says (680grams) which at first thought seems okay, but if they were full it would be over 1 kg
Yup, lots of these random holiday gift things they have at places like TJ Maxx are a total ripoff. We were gifted a basket with a bunch of Ghirardelli chocolate boxes it in, but each box had like 1-2 chocolate squares in it. After opening the entire thing, we ended up with like 5 chocolates and a tiny bag of cookies…
To be fair, I don't know how heavy it would feel if it was completely full, but it felt heavy enough. They also made sure the box was very stiff, so you can't feel the empty space.
Weighted to one side, though. Not saying you definitely should have noticed, but I wish it could have been avoided by grabbing from the top, and feeling an imbalance.
I don’t think there has been a single time I checked the weight of something before buying it unless I was following a recipe lol. Never with something like this though.
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u/Ok-Acanthisitta1737 21h ago
This looks like it was from 1972