Reminds me of the deodorant I just bought that’s literally only halfway filled.
Shrinkflation! Must have taken a cold shower.
“We’re” gonna be so skinny!
Yeah but the machine is in ounces, where the can is in Florida ounces. Once you convert it’s perfectly fine.
oh I get it they didn’t change out the stickers on the button. the vendor still probably an a hole
Hole in the head?
Lol a-hole* too lazy to use a hyphen
Did no one notice I bought 20 oz not 16.9 oz bottle I got ripped off
Naw mate, I just noticed you clicked on that shit when you could have been enjoying a Dr. Pepper. Wtf?
I saw that immediately, that’s so illegal. You should record it and report it to the appropriate 3-letter agency (no idea which one). Doubt you’ll get the money back, but making the assholes that run that machine deal with the government would be worth it to me.
still waiting on any company, agency, government to give a shit about the grocery stores selling eg 200g of meat but only giving 165g. not the prepackaged ceap, actual cuts of meat. numbers are examples but it happens way too much where the actual is always less then the advertised weight.
buy a scale, weight meat. get enraged
In the US, your state’s department of weights and measures might care. They’re the ones who verify grocery store scales, taxi cab fare meters, gas pumps… they exist to make sure you’re not getting ripped off. If you’re in a blue state they care, in a red state ymmv.
I live in Texas and the State Dept of Agriculture takes this kind of stuff very seriously. You have to report it though, which might be the other commenter’s issue
Probably ESA as it’s 500ml in metrics and all.
Soda bottles in the us shows both ounces and milititers.
Large bottles are sold as “2 liter soda”…that’s it.
Smaller bottles are in ounces (with the metric label just a requirement I guess - no one I know here talks about buying a 500ml soda)
Everything else is ounces or gallons, I’m sure someone will ‘umm actually’ me…but generally nothing else is metric; like milk and juice.
America: fuck metric, unless you’re talking soda or bullets
I know it’s a funny joke, but we actually use metric quite a bit, especially for volume
…science and drugs
noticed the same with 1.25L bottles replacing 1.5L and 1.7L replacing 2L
Yeah, what’s FL OZ? A parrot walked on the keyboard?
Don’t know if you’re joking or not, but to anyone actually curious “fluid ounce” its the volume of 1 ounce of water (or wine, not all fluid ounces are the same since because not all ounces are the same).
Its 0.87 of a British pint
It’s a florida ounce. Takes its roots in the cocaine industry of Miami in the 1980s.
A florida ounce is approximately equal to about 25g of mass (on earth), or 25mL of volume.
This is different from the imperial or US ounce, which is about equal to 28g or 29mL.
Ran out of bottles using freedom units, had to use rest-of-the-world units instead. Thanks, Trump.
Soda is sold in 600ml bottles all over the world.
American suddenly realizing that not the entire world is america.
America might not be the entire world but it’s everywhere that matters in the world.
Wait wait, I first read this as satire but something’s not right. You’re not being serious are you?
It’s gotten increasingly difficult to tell with Maggie lately, but in this case I’m 99.9% certain that they’re satirizing stereotypical Americans rather than expressing a sincere opinion.
I’m always serious.
Not where i live.
Not here.
Maybe US territories all over the world.
Coca-Cola recently issued a 750ml bottle in Japan, where it had always been either 500ml or 1.5l.
Never heard of that.
hwat
“WHAT HAVE YOU DONE WITH MY FUCKING CALORIES?!”
The silver lining is that people (Americans?) will be consuming less soda.
Nah, instead of 20oz it’ll be 33.8oz.
But more expensive, and I’m incredibly fine with that!
This is the indignant response of someone who paid for a below IQ drink and expected the average IQ size.
68ml short of a Pint in my book. Dunno where they got the idea that 500ml is 1.05 pints
A pint in the united states is 16 fluid ounces (473.18 ml)
If only there was an unambiguous unit to measure fluids…
olympic swimming pools for sure, football fields is for area, and elegants for weight
Elegant elephants
You mean the Oregonian gluten free bakery?
What a small volume… Should have stuck to English measures when you escaped back along 🤣
It’s no called “Imperial Measurement System” because it’s communist, that’s for sure.
The six-packs of bottles sold in grocery stores have been 500mL for years. Probably somebody filled the machine with them. (The label should say, “Not Labelled for Individual Sale” near the barcode, if so.)
Precisely. Everyone is bitching about shrinkflation, and it’s probably just a vending machine owner cheaping out and buying multipacks at the grocery store instead of 20oz at a much higher wholesale price.
I believe this is what the c-suite types are referring to as “innovation”.
