February 4, 2009

Valentine’s Day screw by M&M’s

As most people suspect, when a confectionary company produce special packs like those for Easter, Christmas and valentine’s day, these special, yet nice looking versions of the product are simply money making machines for the company.

The only true way to find out the value of these products is to take the rare material, which is this particular case is the sugar coated chocolate sweets M&M’s and weigh them. This is then compared to a normal packet of sweets.

The difference is that there are around ten per cent less in the special packs as there would be in normal packs, and of course the price is higher too, this is compensate for the special packaging. Consumers, who are worried about this, need only keep an eye on the price for kg/lb to get the real price.

Source [Consumerist]