Except they are paying to ship 50% air. Those calculations were probably made before gas prices went up.
Comment on I feel like this could have been a smaller package
SPRUNTnsfw@fedinsfw.app 3 days ago
The basic answer is that the production lines are already set up for that size. Some number cruncher figured out they would save $0.01+ by not taking the time to switch the production lines from one to another and, instead, just switching the labels.
reddig33@lemmy.world 3 days ago
vorpuni@tarte.nuage-libre.fr 3 days ago
Maybe, but even with more expensive plastic and shipping, it’s still small and lightweight.
TheFunkyMonk@lemmy.world 3 days ago
That actually makes a lot of sense. I always wondered why all my prescription bottles were so much larger than they needed to be.
OwOarchist@pawb.social 3 days ago
The labels may also be part of it. Vitamins need a lot of mandatory nutritional information printed on them, and they may simply have been unable to print all of that (in a reasonable font size) on a smaller bottle.
But, of course, the real unspoken reason is that it’s deceptive marketing. People who don’t read the label carefully will see a bigger bottle and think that it means they’re getting more product inside, even if a competing brand’s smaller bottle actually contains more.
Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 1 day ago
i don’t think labelling is the reason because plenty of medicine packaging just has fold-outs with information on it. It’s actually something i find really neat.