{"id":54014,"date":"2016-04-24T15:41:13","date_gmt":"2016-04-24T22:41:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=54014"},"modified":"2016-04-24T15:41:13","modified_gmt":"2016-04-24T22:41:13","slug":"bigger-containers-lesser-contents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2016\/04\/24\/bigger-containers-lesser-contents\/","title":{"rendered":"Bigger containers, lesser contents."},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Dr. Mareena Thaha Reffai,Dehiwela<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Have you noticed\u00a0 how we consumers are all duped into believing that we are getting our money\u2019s worth?<\/p>\n<p>The other day I bought a baby cream of a famous repetitive name, and when I opened the sealed tube and squeezed \u2026. and squeezed and squeezed \u2026.. well it took half the tube to be squeezed to get the cream to come out. Yes it is filled with\u00a0 half the capacity but the price is even more than what it was for a full tube. Same with some anti septic creams too.<\/p>\n<p>The boxes of the milk packets look large. So do the packs of nuts, chips and other bites. When you shake them half of the packet is empty. See the yoghurt cups? The top looks same as those old days but the bottom part\u00a0 which actually consist of the yoghurt is so small!<\/p>\n<p>My favorite mosquito coil said to last 12 hours \u2013 which it did sometime back \u2013 hardly lasts 8 hours. Calling them and complaining fell on deaf ears. I remember those days when I called about the coil being \u00a0stuck together the marketing manager promptly sent an officer who\u00a0 apologized for the defunct pack and replaced too. Nowadays they have no explanation for the short changing so they pretend deaf.<\/p>\n<p>Some products have stayed the same and the prices have gone up. That is understandable. But when the company\u00a0 tries to hood wink people to make them think they are getting more for the price they are paying, \u00a0\u00a0it leaves a bad taste in the mouth.<\/p>\n<p>I avoid such cheats.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Mareena Thaha Reffai,Dehiwela Have you noticed\u00a0 how we consumers are all duped into believing that we are getting our money\u2019s worth? The other day I bought a baby cream of a famous repetitive name, and when I opened the sealed tube and squeezed \u2026. and squeezed and squeezed \u2026.. well it took half the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54014","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-forum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54014","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54014"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54014\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}