Did no one notice I bought 20 oz not 16.9 oz bottle I got ripped off
What the Hell is this Bull shit ?
Submitted 6 hours ago by Themosthighstrange@lemmy.world to [deleted]
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Themosthighstrange@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
helpImTrappedOnline@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
I saw that immediately, that’s so illegal. You should record it and report it to the appropriate 3-letter agency (no idea which one). Doubt you’ll get the money back, but making the assholes that run that machine deal with the government would be worth it to me.
Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 hours ago
Probably ESA as it’s 500ml in metrics and all.
Bluegrass_Addict@lemmy.ca 3 hours ago
still waiting on any company, agency, government to give a shit about the grocery stores selling eg 200g of meat but only giving 165g. not the prepackaged ceap, actual cuts of meat. numbers are examples but it happens way too much where the actual is always less then the advertised weight.
buy a scale, weight meat. get enraged
Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 2 hours ago
Naw mate, I just noticed you clicked on that shit when you could have been enjoying a Dr. Pepper. Wtf?
rain_enjoyer@sopuli.xyz 5 hours ago
noticed the same with 1.25L bottles replacing 1.5L and 1.7L replacing 2L
Thorry@feddit.org 3 hours ago
Yeah but the machine is in ounces, where the can is in Florida ounces. Once you convert it’s perfectly fine.
solidheron@sh.itjust.works 2 hours ago
oh I get it they didn’t change out the stickers on the button. the vendor still probably as a hole
thermal_shock@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
Hole in the head?
solidheron@sh.itjust.works 54 minutes ago
Lol a-hole* too lazy to use a hyphen
rob_t_firefly@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
aeronmelon@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
Ran out of bottles using freedom units, had to use rest-of-the-world units instead. Thanks, Trump.
marcos@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
Soda is sold in 600ml bottles all over the world.
Deckname@discuss.tchncs.de 5 hours ago
Not where i live.
realitaetsverlust@piefed.zip 4 hours ago
American suddenly realizing that not the entire world is america.
Asetru@feddit.org 4 hours ago
Not here.
aeronmelon@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
Maybe US territories all over the world.
Coca-Cola recently issued a 750ml bottle in Japan, where it had always been either 500ml or 1.5l.
ohulancutash@feddit.uk 4 hours ago
Never heard of that.
ThoGot@feddit.org 4 hours ago
hwat
Kolanaki@pawb.social 5 hours ago
“WHAT HAVE YOU DONE WITH MY FUCKING CALORIES?!”
wowwoweowza@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
This is the indignant response of someone who paid for a below IQ drink and expected the average IQ size.
itisileclerk@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
Yeah, what’s FL OZ? A parrot walked on the keyboard?
drcobaltjedi@programming.dev 14 minutes ago
Don’t know if you’re joking or not, but to anyone actually curious “fluid ounce” its the volume of 1 ounce of water (or wine, not all fluid ounces are the same since because not all ounces are the same).
JasonDJ@lemmy.zip 36 minutes ago
It’s a florida ounce. Takes its roots in the cocaine industry in the 1980s.
A florida ounce is approximately equal to about 25g of mass (on earth), or 25mL of volume.
Hansae@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 hours ago
Its 0.87 of a British pint
BenM2023@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
68ml short of a Pint in my book. Dunno where they got the idea that 500ml is 1.09 pints
Pogogunner@sopuli.xyz 5 hours ago
A pint in the united states is 16 fluid ounces (473.18 ml)
red_bull_of_juarez@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 hours ago
If only there was an unambiguous unit to measure fluids…
BenM2023@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
What a small volume… Should have stuck to English measures when you escaped back along 🤣
Lemminary@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
On the bright side, people (Americans?) will be consuming less soda.
MajorasTerribleFate@lemmy.zip 3 hours ago
Nah, instead of 20oz it’ll be 33.8oz.
Lemminary@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
But more expensive, and I’m incredibly fine with that!
Wifi0041@fedinsfw.app 5 hours ago
Misleading aside, I’m happy that the US is adopting metric.
TheTechnician27@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
I’m happy that the US is adopting metric.
I don’t know if you’re just not from the US, but this dual labeling of groceries has been ongoing for decades. The US began transitioning to metric during the 1970s and has had plenty of dual uses ever since. Rulers have inches and centimeters; there are imperial and metric tools; kids do learn metric in schools; etc.
“Is adopting” said in 2026 in response to soda labels is a steep misunderstanding of metrification in the US.
bdonvr@thelemmy.club 4 hours ago
We measure sodas bigger than this in Liters.
Not other liquids… just Soda. Milk you buy a gallon of. Soda? 2 Liters. Saying you’re gonna buy a gallon of Soda sounds very strange to an American. There’s also 1 Liter bottles.
It’s the one of the most stupid Americanisms.
SwingingTheLamp@piefed.zip 5 hours ago
The six-packs of bottles sold in grocery stores have been 500mL for years. Probably somebody filled the machine with them. (The label should say, “Not Labelled for Individual Sale” near the barcode, if so.)
BranBucket@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
I believe this is what the c-suite types are referring to as “innovation”.
abacabadabacaba@infosec.pub 5 hours ago
From Wikipedia:
The imperial pint (≈ 568 mL) is used in Ireland, the United Kingdom, and other Commonwealth countries. In the United States, two kinds of pint are used: a liquid pint (≈ 473 mL) and a less common dry pint (≈ 551 mL).
ParadoxSeahorse@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
A dry pint would be hard to enjoy
orbituary@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 hours ago
Yes, but 20 ounces doesn’t equal 16 ounces, even for great values of 16.
darthsundhaft@piefed.social 5 hours ago
The missing ingredient is air.
altphoto@lemmy.today 1 minute ago
“We’re” gonna be so skinny!