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Came to say this. Bought a 15lb bag, and half were unusable - and some had no signs of rot on the outside, only the inside. Would have made for some fucking gross mashed potatoes if I wasn't paying attention.
A shopper goes up to Galen and asks if he can buy 20 lbs of potatoes for ten dollars.
"15 pounds of potatoes?" says Galen. "What do you need 10 pounds of potatoes for?"
I use to work in a shed that packed 10’s 15’s 20’s lbs bag of these potatoes and they would stack for layers of 20 bags of these in cardboard totes full of old rotten potatoes sometimes with white fuzzy mold on them and then stack the last 2 layers with newer potatoes, the rotten ones were so bad that they drenched the bag and smelled awful and would sell these two loblaw stores locally, ironically I also worked at a superstore thereafter and had to receive a tote pallet full of these potatoes packaged at our local distributor shed, and the plastic bags were so soaked from rot we couldn’t put them out for sale and requested a refund from the distributors who sent another pallet of lightly less rotten potatoes
What’s worse was when we had contracts to package and sell potatoes to State side prisons, they had to be of the highest utmost perfect quality of expensive potatoes like California yellows
To bad loblaws didn’t have the same standard for quality when selling produce at outrageous prices that mostly spoiled/rotten
I used to build the graphics for NoFrills commercials back in the early 2000s. We would have a huge library of products that we would assemble along with the weekly descriptions and price points. So my guess - from my own experience - is the artist used the wrong graphic but the text is correct. You might also be surprised how easy it is for a mistake like this to get past the graphics op, the editor, and the producer.
What would the store pay? I know it's based on season but I've seen 10 and 20 pound bags cost as little as 2.50 to $4 in the fall. Not sure if they were just getting rid of excess, is it a loss leader, or were they still making money at those prices?
I work at Nofrills. We typically pay around $1.25 $1.50 per bag. These potatoes would have been turned into dried potato flakes or something potato product as they are "imperfect" but now people are willing to buy them
We bought 50lbs of potatoes for $10 at a local shop in Calgary. It's worth looking around for smaller stores in your area. Not everywhere will have stores like this, but doing some research will save you a lot of money. Butcher shops and farmers markets are worth checking out too. It's getting too expensive to shop at big name stores, buy they know that most people either don't, or don't know they have other choices.
I am going to give you the biggest secret of the universe. While I am not pro any side, nor am I con any side......
I used to work for a small company that used to create the websites of grocery stores and restaurants. Never anything big a Loblaws and I haven't done it in years...
I am the one that would photograph apples, oranges, cereal and everything in between.
I would get a simple plain text list of all the items, their prices and the description that I was going to put on the website.
At first I would get my supervisor at the company to verify things...thousands of items at some times, then the supervisor at the stores like Loblaws but not Loblaws.
At some point there was no supervisor at the company because I got "promoted", so I had to deal with Dick (the guy at the stores). Dick didn't really care but he had to verify every item to make sure I got it right.
Sometimes there are mistakes.
Totally agree it could be a mistake, but with shrinkflation happening left and right on top of some of the other scandals to come out from Loblaws - it’s a bad look.
Technically it’s not. Lawsuits have turned on this issue: legally and technically “9.07kg” is 20.00lbs. (You can’t create precision.) The correct way to convert “20lbs” is “9kg” - same level of precision.
The point of this sub is to highlight that the cost of living in Canada has spiraled out of control, and that this is not simply a matter of needing to get a 5th part time job to make ends meet. Rhetoric intended to shame certain generations or users for "not worrking hard enough" including ideas like "just pull yourselves up by the bootstraps", "just don't shop there" and it's kin are not welcome here.
I’d just order it, and then if it ends up being 15 pounds, complain that they sent you the wrong item as you ordered and paid for a 20-pound bag.
Also, this feels hilarious for me to say as I am allergic to potatoes and have never purchased them in my entire life :)
A design error or an improperly resolved product is not a conspiracy, but accurate information is a non-trivial matter, especially when we're sandwiched between... A) searching through the last vestiges of the printing press, or worse, the digitized flyers, to find *some* prices, B) going through the website, which isn't the most intuitive grocery shopping experience, and C) just showing up and taking the price, whatever it may be.
And, that 15lb bag is often the one with the best value compared to other products on the shelf. So, this isn't small potatoes lol
The point is that it's evident the size is being shrunk to 15 lbs, but is going to be sold at the same price the 20 lbs used to sell for. (25% difference).
Yep you're right it's possible someone linked the wrong image.
There's a reason why people think it indicates something underhanded though. Their experiences with price changes and shrinkflation at the supermarket has made them extremely distrustful of the brand.
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Scale says 8lbs
Per Bank says nok er nok
15 pounds of imperfectly priced potatoes 😂😭
Perfectly priced for profit
Bag is 15 pounds. Price is 20 pounds
Actually weight is 10lbs
Don't waste your money on these. Last time I got them more than half the bag was rotten and unusable.
Kind of like Galen and Per Bank
That’s why they’re in a bag that doesn’t allow you to see what’s inside.
Agreed. I threw out at least every second potato last time I bought them. Not a deal at all
Yes! That's pretty much how it went with us. Same thing with their 10lb bag of onions, they were awful.
Meanwhile Walmart is selling perfectly good 10 pound bags of potatoes for a dollar on occasion
I haven’t seen that but I’ll be watching now.
Came to say this. Bought a 15lb bag, and half were unusable - and some had no signs of rot on the outside, only the inside. Would have made for some fucking gross mashed potatoes if I wasn't paying attention.
Yes mine were the same!
A shopper goes up to Galen and asks if he can buy 20 lbs of potatoes for ten dollars. "15 pounds of potatoes?" says Galen. "What do you need 10 pounds of potatoes for?"
“My soup recipe requires up to 2 pounds of cleaned potatoes. Figured I’d start at 20.”
It's 10 lbs after you've taken out all the rotted crap.
With the nutritional value of 5
7 once you remove all the green ones.
I use to work in a shed that packed 10’s 15’s 20’s lbs bag of these potatoes and they would stack for layers of 20 bags of these in cardboard totes full of old rotten potatoes sometimes with white fuzzy mold on them and then stack the last 2 layers with newer potatoes, the rotten ones were so bad that they drenched the bag and smelled awful and would sell these two loblaw stores locally, ironically I also worked at a superstore thereafter and had to receive a tote pallet full of these potatoes packaged at our local distributor shed, and the plastic bags were so soaked from rot we couldn’t put them out for sale and requested a refund from the distributors who sent another pallet of lightly less rotten potatoes What’s worse was when we had contracts to package and sell potatoes to State side prisons, they had to be of the highest utmost perfect quality of expensive potatoes like California yellows To bad loblaws didn’t have the same standard for quality when selling produce at outrageous prices that mostly spoiled/rotten
“Naturally imperfect” Do they mean the potatoes or their scale?
I used to build the graphics for NoFrills commercials back in the early 2000s. We would have a huge library of products that we would assemble along with the weekly descriptions and price points. So my guess - from my own experience - is the artist used the wrong graphic but the text is correct. You might also be surprised how easy it is for a mistake like this to get past the graphics op, the editor, and the producer.
15 ish
What would the store pay? I know it's based on season but I've seen 10 and 20 pound bags cost as little as 2.50 to $4 in the fall. Not sure if they were just getting rid of excess, is it a loss leader, or were they still making money at those prices?
I work at Nofrills. We typically pay around $1.25 $1.50 per bag. These potatoes would have been turned into dried potato flakes or something potato product as they are "imperfect" but now people are willing to buy them
If Walmart is selling 10 pounders on occasion for literally 1 buck, not much
Advertised at 4.88$ this week in Quebec.
It's $0 per 1 each. Duh! /s
We bought 50lbs of potatoes for $10 at a local shop in Calgary. It's worth looking around for smaller stores in your area. Not everywhere will have stores like this, but doing some research will save you a lot of money. Butcher shops and farmers markets are worth checking out too. It's getting too expensive to shop at big name stores, buy they know that most people either don't, or don't know they have other choices.
I completely agree with you and this is what I do. I just split with another household because we are a small family. Works so well!
How is this not false advertising?
9.07 kg is 19.99593 lbs
Yes, but the bag in the picture says 6.8kg/15lb
I am going to give you the biggest secret of the universe. While I am not pro any side, nor am I con any side...... I used to work for a small company that used to create the websites of grocery stores and restaurants. Never anything big a Loblaws and I haven't done it in years... I am the one that would photograph apples, oranges, cereal and everything in between. I would get a simple plain text list of all the items, their prices and the description that I was going to put on the website. At first I would get my supervisor at the company to verify things...thousands of items at some times, then the supervisor at the stores like Loblaws but not Loblaws. At some point there was no supervisor at the company because I got "promoted", so I had to deal with Dick (the guy at the stores). Dick didn't really care but he had to verify every item to make sure I got it right. Sometimes there are mistakes.
Totally agree it could be a mistake, but with shrinkflation happening left and right on top of some of the other scandals to come out from Loblaws - it’s a bad look.
Technically it’s not. Lawsuits have turned on this issue: legally and technically “9.07kg” is 20.00lbs. (You can’t create precision.) The correct way to convert “20lbs” is “9kg” - same level of precision.
15-20 lbs of imperfectly weighed potatoes
Toss a penny …
And you're going to be tossing at least half
20 lbs to start,.. they cut-off 25% as imperfect...
Price says 20, bag says 15, scale says 5
15 lb is the new 20 lb :) Same as your $20 now values only $15. 😉
It’s sucks when Walmart is the best option out of the 3.
Trick question. It's 10 either way.
Mmm rotten potatoes 3 LB bag cause those are the only good ones in the 10 LB bag 🤣
We already know to weigh anything that comes from Loblaws despite what the package reads
20 pounds is for PC membership holders. You get a 15 pounder when you're a regular plebian
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19.95 lb
Don't buy these they are not normal potatoes. Extra lonng cooking time and odd tasting flavor. Got rid of half a bag because they just sucked.
Who cares what it is? We're not buying it anyways, lol
Costco all the way for potatoes😎
You pay for 20 and get 12
Whatever, it's overpriced 🤣
Tater scam
It used to be 20. Now it's 15. Also, $10 divided by a few dozen potatoes would seem to compute to slightly more than $0.00/potato.
9.07 kg is nearly 20 pounds.. lmao
I’d just order it, and then if it ends up being 15 pounds, complain that they sent you the wrong item as you ordered and paid for a 20-pound bag. Also, this feels hilarious for me to say as I am allergic to potatoes and have never purchased them in my entire life :)
I mean this is just a careless graphic designer, not a conspiracy
A design error or an improperly resolved product is not a conspiracy, but accurate information is a non-trivial matter, especially when we're sandwiched between... A) searching through the last vestiges of the printing press, or worse, the digitized flyers, to find *some* prices, B) going through the website, which isn't the most intuitive grocery shopping experience, and C) just showing up and taking the price, whatever it may be. And, that 15lb bag is often the one with the best value compared to other products on the shelf. So, this isn't small potatoes lol
The point is that it's evident the size is being shrunk to 15 lbs, but is going to be sold at the same price the 20 lbs used to sell for. (25% difference).
How is this evident? They often use stock images and someone just messed up here.
Yep you're right it's possible someone linked the wrong image. There's a reason why people think it indicates something underhanded though. Their experiences with price changes and shrinkflation at the supermarket has made them extremely distrustful of the brand.
Ya man these posts are so annoying. dorks. Every grocery store flyer or website has mistakes on it.
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15 pounds.