[ale] sound and picture

[Lightner, Jeff]

The juice cartons a couple of years back went from 1/2 gallon (64 ounces) to something like 59 ounces without changing the price.   Tropicana was the first to do this and when I complained to Tropicana they claimed they'd done a news release.  I noted that if they'd ADDED ounces they'd have put big flashing letters on the carton itself to highlight the change even if temporary so it was clearly an intent to defraud the public in my opinion.  

I had to deal with the change to metric at a job I had back in those days.   Just to make things even more fun for us the government increased the excise tax on alcohol so if you had more than 500 "wine gallons" of alcohol you had to do a one time payment to the government for that excise tax.   Our beverage manager at the time got offered "deals" by various distributors so bought extra not realizing the excise tax would then be due because he'd pushed us over the 500 limit by doing the purchases.   Calculating "wine gallons" is fun because it is the amount of alcohol in a gallon of unfortified wine.  You have to figure out how much alcohol is in each type of beer and size thereof as well as in each type of liquor/liquer and size thereof and convert their "proofs" to percents then add it all together to do the final calculation.   Until I did that I hadn't realized just how many different sizes of things we had in inventory including non-metric and metric.

-----Original Message-----
From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of Jim Lynch
Sent: Tuesday, January 26, 2016 1:55 PM
To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts
Subject: Re: [ale] sound and picture

Back when they went metric on liquor, it would have been natural to make a 2 liter bottle to replace the old half gallon.  But no, they decided to make it a 1.75 liter bottle (59+ oz) and charge the same as the old half gallon, thus pushing a 10% increase without doing a thing.  Same for quarts, they went with the 750 ml instead of the more logical 1 liter bottle.  Eventually many companies came out with a liter bottle at an inflated price.  Liquor companies loved metrication.

On 01/26/2016 01:21 PM, Lightner, Jeff wrote:
> With their liters not only is it not cheaper it is quite a bit more 
> expensive.   I've often wondered why the oil companies in America 
> haven't gotten together to try to force liters on us so they can start 
> incrementing the price without a noticing.

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