Apart from the whole planned obsolence thing with electronics, beer bottles come to mind. A couple of years ago clear bottles became more common here and beer spoils significantly faster when exposed to UV radiation.
I thought that's why they used brown or green glass? To stop the UV from spoiling the beer? Also, isn't glass a lot less energy and resource intensive to make than aluminum cans?
I thought that's why they used brown or green glass? To stop the UV from spoiling the beer? Also, isn't glass a lot less energy and resource intensive to make than aluminum cans?
Exactly, but some brands now use clear bottles.
Maybe some marketing people just thought it looks better, maybe they want you to drink it faster or throw it out and buy more.
I am Dutch but spend a lot of time in Germanic countries.
My dialect is according to former colleagues like standard English with some Manchester English (TV series Coronation street ? or 10 years a boss from Manchester ?) and certainly not like the South African dialect.
Dislectic as well BTW.
The brand of shampoo I bought changed the diameter of the hole you squeeze the shampoo out of. Anytime I try and use it now it gushes an enormous amount of shampoo out which all goes down the drain. A bottle that used to last me two months or so is empty in just a couple of weeks as a result. The hole diameter is now wide enough that the surface tension of the shampoo cannot contain it and it just floods out even if you don't apply pressure.
So my question is does anyone else have any examples where companies have changed their product to artificially drive up demand?
Safeguard soap changed the shape of the bar, claiming it would be easier to hold, but also making it about 10% smaller. The new shape lasted about a year, and then they went back to the old shape, but kept the same, smaller size.
Do you have any of the old bottles laying around? You could just swap caps and foil their nefarious plot.
I am Dutch but spend a lot of time in Germanic countries.
My dialect is according to former colleagues like standard English with some Manchester English (TV series Coronation street ? or 10 years a boss from Manchester ?) and certainly not like the South African dialect.
Dislectic as well BTW.
The brand of shampoo I bought changed the diameter of the hole you squeeze the shampoo out of. Anytime I try and use it now it gushes an enormous amount of shampoo out which all goes down the drain. A bottle that used to last me two months or so is empty in just a couple of weeks as a result. The hole diameter is now wide enough that the surface tension of the shampoo cannot contain it and it just floods out even if you don't apply pressure.
So my question is does anyone else have any examples where companies have changed their product to artificially drive up demand?
Huh. I took the "which type of English" quiz and got some interesting results:
Our top three guesses for your English dialect:
1. Singaporean
2. American (Standard)
3. South African Our top three guesses for your native (first) language:
1. English
2. Swedish
3. Norwegian
It's true that English is my first language. The other two make sense because I lived with Swedish-speaking grandparents.
I have no idea where Singaporean or South African came from.
Singaporean? Wut? It did place me in Eastern Europe/Northern Africa though... Our top three guesses for your English dialect:
1. Singaporean
2. New Zealandish
3. US Black Vernacular / Ebonics Our top three guesses for your native (first) language:
1. Russian
2. Romanian
3. Polish
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