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- cogitocogito, on 10/11/2007, -0/+61Now if they'll only do the same thing for those 12 oz "pints" of beer at many pubs.
- afx1, on 10/11/2007, -0/+55I too was concerned when I realized I wasn't as fat as I should be.
- crawfishsoul, on 10/11/2007, -4/+33baseballpm, do you hear that whooshing sound?
- GinaJuice, on 10/11/2007, -1/+29***** Panda Express does this all the time.
- camknows, on 10/11/2007, -13/+41Who buys Baskin-Robbins "hand packed pints"!? Ben & Jerry's FTW!
- Eccohawk, on 10/11/2007, -3/+29I would have dugg yours, but you used 'digged'.
- DiggFight, on 10/11/2007, -3/+23Well, you're obviously an idiot.
- cardinale, on 10/11/2007, -1/+14How quickly we forget...can anyone say baker's dozen? Better to give a little away than be fined.
- Spyscience, on 10/11/2007, -4/+14Hell yeah! B&J = no air in ice cream.
- vulapine, on 10/11/2007, -1/+11The phrase "Hand Packed" makes me feel dirty for some reason.
- HarmyG, on 10/11/2007, -1/+10Is there going to be some sort of class-action lawsuit? Nice, everyone will get a check for fifty cents or a coupon for fifty cents off a pint of ice cream. And the two lawyers will get $225,000 each.
- SkippyDoorknob, on 10/11/2007, -0/+7Yeah, those devious fish are always giving me less ice cream than I paid for!
- Rinnt, on 10/11/2007, -4/+11Good. One of the things I learned in my marketing 101 class was how companies will try to boost profits (i.e. reduce expenses) by delivering less than they claim -- or at least delivering less and hoping the consumer won't notice. I haven't taken Ethic 101 yet, but I'm sure this will be covered.
It's nice to know somebody is watching and corporations can only go so far (at least some of the time) without repercussions. - Urusai, on 10/11/2007, -0/+7If they sell it by volume, then they need to be accurate. I could sell you 12 feet of beer, but if you only got 11 that would be misrepresentation.
- Error601, on 10/11/2007, -1/+7It's sold by weight and not bag. The air is supposed to help keep them from getting crushed.
- neuropsychguy, on 10/11/2007, -0/+4What bugs me is that most of the 1/2 gallon containers of ice cream from grocery stores are no longer 1/2 gallon but only 1.75 quarts (they aren't advertising them as 1/2 gallon but they sure don't go out of their way to let you know that you are buying less than 2 quarts). It's not a huge deal but it's annoying that the companies are being deceptive about their products.
- fauxXenophanes, on 10/11/2007, -0/+4 Exactly how much of this windfall gets to the ripped-off consumers ?
None.
- inactive, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3I believe they did this to Heinz as well for shorting on ketchup.
- DiggFight, on 10/11/2007, -3/+6When I was 14, Baskin Robbins was my first job. The place is pretty gross and unsanitary. I was the ONLY person who washed their hands after handling cash. Not only is it over priced, you are encouraged to under scoop the customers. If you do it right, you can create what appears to be a huge scoop, but is actually a hollow ball of ice cream.
- capncrunk, on 10/11/2007, -3/+6I never understood how anyone didn't understand that 'hand packed' = less...
- LogicBomB, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3Maybe they can be like most internet companies and define what a "pint" really is.
"By purchasing this product you agree to the terms and conditions posted on our website www.baskinrobins.com". Next thing you know, you go to the site and it'll say "1 pint is defined as 3/4 of 1 real pint". It'll happen, just watch. - Brad12088, on 10/11/2007, -10/+12For some reason I read the title as:
"Baskin-Robbins Fined $500,000 For Snorting Pints Of Ice Cream" - psykiv, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2The other day I went to the store and bought a 20lb bag of rice. I went through the self checkout lanes to pay. Conveniently, it had one of those digital scales (for when you're buying fruits), so when I placed it there to scan it, it only measured 15 pounds. Thats a whole 5 pounds short than what the package read. I brought it to the attention of the manager but he didn't seem to care.
Maybe I should sue Mahatma rice?
Im waiting for someone to do a statistical analysis of the article to figure out what were the chances of this happening... And isn't pint a unit of volume while ounce is a unit of weight? - Ladymongoose, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2BR has the flat out crappiest ice cream on the planet, not to mention the crappiest servers..all teens with attitudes or 30+ folks who take it out on you because they have to work in an ice cream shop to make ends meet. Doesn't suprise me in the slightest.
- kaeryn, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2The major culprit of this type of thing is TUNA.
- BalooUrsidae, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2American pints tend to be only 16 oz., a good four ounces short of a proper pub pint...
- CiXeL, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2why cant they get these people down here in miami? there are cheats and cons like this all over the place down here and lawyers could stand to make alot of money exposing it all.
- Dannygars, on 10/11/2007, -1/+2We've had the same problem, and I remember the clerk getting testy when I asked what the weight was supposed to be. I checked at answers.com, which says it should be about 18oz. That would mean they were shorting us by 22%.
- Nutmegan, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1I bet they sell enough ice cream off of people reading this article and seeing the words "Baskin Robbins" to make up the $500k. I'd like a shorted pint right now.
- inactive, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1Potato chip bags are getting lighter and costing more.
Likewise, Chips Ahoy cookies were huge when I was a kid, now they are these tiny little cookies that I could grab an entire handful of.
I'm fed up with the big corporations screwing us out of our childhood memories. - MyDigitalSin, on 10/11/2007, -1/+2oh god, fine them! They are trying to reduce America's overweight "disease"
- GeneralKickass, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1No.
- robbiedo, on 10/11/2007, -1/+2And it is not air, but nitrogen gas to prevent oxidizing. Would you rather have rancid potato dust instead?
- tvh2k, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1Can't the digg community just all agree to read The Consumerist, rather than us linking to each and every one of their articles!
- SilentSpyder, on 10/11/2007, -4/+5I hope this happens with snack size Potato chip bags. Half the bag is AIR.
- longbow486, on 10/11/2007, -0/+0@cooleyandy
i prefer Half Baked - Error601, on 10/11/2007, -5/+5Why did I know this was going to be The Consumerist...where stupid and blown out of proportion knows no bounds. Maybe someone should study up on the concept that "pint" is a liquid measurement and ice cream is a solid. If your ice cream is not solid, you've got a bigger problem.
- Salanmon, on 10/11/2007, -0/+0Hey guy you just don't know the pain and disappointment of releasing that all the Pints of ice cream your brought was really 12oz!
i mean *sob* it's just heartbreaking - tennisninja38, on 10/11/2007, -0/+0oops i thought it said snorting.
- inactive, on 10/11/2007, -0/+0Dugg for making total sense in a senseless world.
- ElGuano, on 10/11/2007, -1/+1Weight is pretty common nowadays, but mainly for scoops in cups. It always makes me mad to see it though, I just wish they would stack it generously without adhering to some profit-friendly metric. I've never seen weight used in hand-packed pints yet.
- Raian, on 10/11/2007, -5/+4This is great news for fat women- bad news for men.
- Error601, on 10/11/2007, -2/+1Yes, it does. I think last time I made my own it at least doubled in volume while in the freezer. This is just some lawyer game to cash in on the court lottery.
- Error601, on 10/11/2007, -2/+1Puzzling...people hit the dig down button instead of deal with facts and respond to them. I guess I'll never get irrational types but that is the type that get suckered by The Consumerist and it's ilk. Oh well, you can lead a horse to reality but you can't make them smart.
- inactive, on 10/11/2007, -2/+1I'm not defending Baskin-Robbins, but I feel that many businesses short their customers from products. For instance, in New York City ------ famous for thin crust pizza ------- sometimes when you go into any random pizzeria and ask for a slice for regular cheese pizza, the slice is sometimes large, sometimes it is smaller. It depends on how the person who made the pizza cut it into slices, which is very subjective. It's just part of the gamble of buying food here.
I suppose what's different here is that for ice cream, they specified an actual size..............one pint. So consumer agencies can measure it and hold it against Baskin-Robbins like in this case. But it occurs more often than most people want to think. - lordmike, on 10/11/2007, -1/+0Yeah, but BR will be careful not to screw with customers again...
That's why we have civil litigation... to discourage wrongdoing by individuals or businesses that might hurt others.
Thanks,
Mike - unique172, on 10/11/2007, -1/+0This kind of thing would NEVER happen with Ben & Jerry's!
- Error601, on 10/11/2007, -3/+1Anyone experienced cook can tell you that's not possible. I can give you three cups of flour that all have different weights. The only way to be precise is weight but that's not the tradition for ice cream.
- khaosx2030, on 10/11/2007, -4/+2Ice-cream is serious business.
Rocky road represent! - overneath42, on 10/11/2007, -2/+0Doesn't ice cream have a lot of air in it? Did they measure it as a solid or as a liquid? Seems like it would lose volume as it melted.
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