Product Rip OFF- Lays Potato Chips
By Rainbow777
Lays Potato Chips
LAYS POTATO CHIPS
I will admit I do have some time on my hands due to my current employment situation. However I am really watching my spending and I am real tired of getting ripped off.
I went to the local convenience store today to buy a newspaper, and spent 99 cents on a small bag of Lays Potato Chips. I have not had chips in a very long time, and wanted to eat some with my tuna sandwich.
I was shocked when I opened the bag of chips. The bag was 3/4 empty! I measured the bag, and it measures 9 1/2 inches long and 6 inches wide. The chips only took the space of 4 inches in height and 6 inches wide.The rest of the bigger bag was empty space.
I think it cost the company more money for the labor and electric to put that small amount of product in the large bag, to make it appear bigger. As far as I am concerned that is a consumer scam.
I emailed the Frito-lay company and requested my missing chips. I have grown real tired of being scammed by the companies that operate in this country and foreign products.
Last week I sent a nice letter to Tyson Chicken to rave about their chicken breast product and they were nice enough to send me $ 4.00 in coupons. At least their bag is full of chicken.I have noticed that the cost of products are increasing and the product size has been shrinking.
I also wrote to Purdue, to tell them their chicken was fowl (no pun intended) and they sent me a $ 10.00 coupon. I will not buy Purdue products.
This is an intentional deception, to produce a larger bag with less product. The little snack bags, cost less and have more chips.
It is a shame that the business practices once known to stand for quality and product assurance is probably being run by the same people running the banks and the insurance companies.
Shame on You Frito-Lay
Comments
i know!!! its FUCKED UP!!! they keep same price but halfed the size of ALL frito products. looked like normal frito have stayed the same but i have not seen how much is inside. really fucked up, im def not buying anymore like this and i suggest all to do the same.
In this economy they should at least be honest with the size of the bag vs contents. I try to give my family enough to share for everyone. A blended family with 5 kids and in one minute the bag is empty.. Really Lays? I won't buy your product again, not worth disappointing the other kids who never had a chance to get any... I am so pissed they filled the bag with so little contents... Screw the CEO who screws with the consumer.. I am never going to be dishonest to my customers and oversell them something... I hope you lose lots of customers, your dishonesty and false advertising are a major diappointment to a mom who spends $300 a week on groceries... You lost my money Lays!!!
A. - It is sold by weight, so even if it's one chip that weighs 60.2 grams, then you got your money's worth. Again, it is sold by WEIGHT. B. - You know how all the chips are kinda worked together real close, nice and tight? Well, they didn't put them in there like that. They "fill" the bag - to weight. The dimensions of the bag are necessary to accommodate the amount of chips. Then as the bags are continually shaken and bumped and some chips break etc. they work their way into a smaller area. C. - If there was "no pun intended", then you would have spelled "foul", now "fowl".
I hope you don't have children.
Lays: 90 % air
10 % chips
You could survive in space with It's air. xD
$4.29 for a 8 oz bag? It might be 9oz but believe it was $3.99 and 11oz 2 months ago, right? At 3.99 it was a ripoff. It's a joke and I don't buy them anymore. I am sick of paying for that smelly guys driving the chip truck kid's, for their college education, while I just get by week to week doing hard labor. I have to work 39 minutes for a bag of flipping chips? Nope, GFY Lays! I bought the 7/11 brand chips for $2.99, much more chips and even better quality and tasting, not that thin sliced crap that's like eating air.. I wish Jays would rise up and quit letting lays push them off the shelf. I think at these prices, you might see candy stores reopen with fresh homemade chips to scoop ya.. that would rock!
Blame the oil companies for this, the price of Frito lay products has risen just like everything in the supermarket. And the reason is the $4 a gallon fuel. I've worked for Frito since '05 and seen this price hike as the gas prices went up. I agree 4.29 for a bag of chips is a lot but look at all the other food, it's the exact same story. The product gets smaller and the price goes up. Someone is getting rich and it's probably the oil companies.
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Rainbow777 2 years ago
you are defective and not my father, the bag was not defective, the company only fills the bag the low amount and creates the bag larger to fool the consumer, that was my point, and Frito-Lay already compensated me for catching them.