What did they do to my chocolate?

[catnapper]

Oh no! The most horrendous thing imaginable happened today -- I bought a value pack of Reese's Cup at Walmart this morning. I was so happy to splurge on chocolate (hey, we all know its the best medicine around! ) I put my treasure in the 'fridge to chill for an hour or so.... I just ran to retrieve my cool treat and almost cried. It can't be true, but it HAS to be: the cups are smaller.

I don't know for sure, I shold probably run out to another store and buy some cups there for comparison () but I swear these cups are smaller!

Horrors! What did they do? I would have gladly paid an additional 25 cents for the right sized cups! What is this world coming to????

First my Reese's cups shrink, what next? Less marshmallows in my hot chocolate? Oh the humanity of it all!

[Pawsitive Thinking]

Life can be so cruel at times

[Maresche]

It must be one of the seven signs of the Apocolypse.

Seriously, I don't like it when company's change something behind the scenes and call it "New and Improved" when it clearly isn't. I'm all about brand loyalty.

[elizabethann]

Just shoot me now!!!! NNNNNNNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!

[Donnaj4962]

Yes, I have been in a depressed state since discovering this fact last week! I cannot believe that they would make the cups smaller! I was simply appalled! AND.... I bought the "value pack" at Kroger, same price as usual.... $1.00.... but there were only 8 cups instead of the usual 10! And then to find the cups were smaller! What has happened? I, for only a fleeting moment, thought of boycotting buying any more. Within a moment, I realized that although the cups are smaller, they still taste the same and I cannot be without my chocolate and p'nut butter fix!

I feel your pain Catnapper.... I feel your pain.

[Karen]

Write to the company! Protest, protest, protest!

Remember how quickly Coke rescinded "New coke?"

Just think how much money they must have spent on all new molds and machinery and resizing packaging ...

Bet the smaller cups do have less calories ... those finks!

[catnapper]

Karen, I hadn't thought of firing off an email -- I just did that! Man it felt good!

I accused them of ruining an American Classic! LOL

[Laura's Babies]

5# bags of sugar have become 4# bags... A pound of coffee is now 12 ounces.......NOW RESSE'S? (I think we are not suppose to notice the differance!)

[sirrahbed]

Reese's are my favorite candy!! I have not had one for awhile so will have to buy it and weep I guess.

Good idea about writing the company - I will do that, too. But first, I need a Reese's Peanut Butter cup!

[RICHARD]

I love rocky road candy bars.

they took out the black cardboard backing in the packaging....
I loved the smell of it...


B@ST@RDS!

[Karen]

I love rocky road candy bars.

they took out the black cardboard backing in the packaging....
I loved the smell of it...


B@ST@RDS!

What's a rocky road candy bar?

[cyber-sibes]

5# bags of sugar have become 4# bags... A pound of coffee is now 12 ounces.......

I noticed this too! Ice cream is like that now - no more "quarts" are real quarts. And sometimes they switch to listing it in metric units just to make it even more confusing!
They don't realize just how all this will impact the sweet craving masses! I need a candy bar...

[cyber-sibes]

In honor of this thread I bought some snack-size heath bars (one of my favorites) at the grocery store tonight and ate a couple in the parking lot. Purely for research, you know.
My research conclusion is that they have shrunk, too. They're almost as thin as a Kit Kat stick.

[catnapper]

I finally got an email response from Hershey regarding my concerns about the reduced size of my Reeses cup.

Just over 100 years ago, Milton S. Hershey founded a business to manufacture and sell quality chocolate products. He began with just three products -- HERSHEY'S sweet chocolate, HERSHEY'S baking chocolate and HERSHEY'S cocoa -- and the determination to sell them at an affordable price. Over the past century, the company he founded has continued this tradition of offering consumers both quality and value. Today, as so many years ago, consumers know that the name HERSHEY'S stands for the best in taste and quality at a price they can afford.

It is The Hershey Company policy to offer the best possible value for consistently high-quality products. The costs of most ingredients and packaging materials have been rising as well as costs for marketing and shipping. Despite the weight reduction our products continue to be an excellent value for the consumer.


Your interest in our company is appreciated.

Boy, all they did was send me a form letter. No coupons or anything else! and it took a week to respond! hmph!

[anna_66]

Pretty soon, we will have to be happy with just the "Hole" from our Life Savors!!!!!!!

LOL this had me Dorthy! It's just about the truth now!