chapotraphouse

Honestly, I respect it. Minding his own business, not bothering anybody, quietly holding the store accountable. You could expect a lot worse from old man behavior.

Less of a developed world problem, but it's all hilarious old man paranoia until you also start to weigh stuff and find out how many things are actually not as full as advertised.

You sure the guy wasn't just an average Eastern European old guy?

I once watched an old man at the deli "salad" bar shake a turd out of his slacks onto the floor.

my peak old guy moment: I woke up one morning and found a disheveled old man in my bathroom, staring at me completely unhinged.

I told him this was my home and to get out while he rambled unintelligibly at me like his mouth was full of marbles.

there was something familiar and tragic about his stare. that's when I realized...

Stuff like this isn't usually packed strictly by weight. It's packed by "volume that probably weighs about the right amount based on average density". In most places there is a legally allowed +/- % to enable manufacturers to churn out slop as quickly and efficiently as possible. They're supposed to have a QA department that makes sure it averages out over a large number of packages, but in practice who knows. Regulators are usually too busy / understaffed / underfunded to police that kind of shit proactively anyway, and even if they do get caught, the fine is probably less than the savings they'd get from shorting customers en masse. The manufacturer will absolutely have done the math on that.

So fuckit, more power to him.

its important to have standards, no one has any pride anymore

Mebbies it was Fray Bentos

How could the cheapest meatballs be packaged as 360g?? Meatballs must not be very popular.

I keep meaning to weigh the different brands of toilet paper so I can properly calculate the price per unit. This "1 roll = 2 rolls" stuff makes it impossible to compare.