Bottles are getting smaller

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Has anyone noticed that bottles are getting smaller but price is the same or more. I heard that it had to do with European imports wanting to keep all bottles the same. 750mlis now 700 ml

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Seems about right. Same with toilet paper. You see these mega packs with rolls the size of a football but what they don't tell you is they cut an inch of the side to make them wider.
 
Has little to do with Europeans and everything to do with inflation. It’s easier for consumer product companies to shrink their product while raising prices incrementally as opposed to raising prices significantly.
 
ncspeedsix said:
Has little to do with Europeans and everything to do with inflation. It’s easier for consumer product companies to shrink their product while raising prices incrementally as opposed to raising prices significantly.
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Google" the whiskey advocate" It goes in detail why the bottles are being allowed. Up untill a couple years ago 700 ml bottles were not allowed to be imported which deprived US scotch drinkers from being able to get quality scotch from overseas.Google it to read the whole article

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Yeah, you'll see that pretty often with the imports. I ain't mad at them for making it easier to serve foreign customers without having to pay for 2 different bottles to be manufactured.. Especially during "the glass shortage".

You'll also see some of the European bottles labeled 70cl which is 700ml.

Even bourbons produced here exclusively for the foreign market have always been that way.

Good example is my Blanton's S.F.T.B. (straight from the barrel).
It's still not offered in US market, so when I had a buddy grab one in Japan and bring it back, it was a 700ml bottle.
 
Very interesting. I’m sure the US whiskey consumer is playing a big role in the change but don’t discount the lobbying influence of a company like Brown Forman which makes JD. They had revenues of $4.5 billion last year and are headquartered in Kentucky. Their international sales are growing at a much faster clip than their domestic sales. Now is as good a time as any to conform to European bottle standards while also being able to profit domestically from such a move. Let no tragedy go to waste is probably their line of thinking.
 
Speaking of consumers and the U.S. market, we have to keep a little commerce history in mind.

For several DECADES bourbon wasn't cool. The American market damn near let bourbon die off.
Some pretty good distilleries were closing by the early 70s and the "resurgence" didn't start in earnest until the early 2000s.

During that time, the biggest market keeping some of "bourbon only" distilleries afloat was the Japanese.
It's slowly changing but even to this day there are offerings from Buffalo Trace and Wild Turkey that I want but can't get because they are only sold in Japan as a nod to their customers there. I don't think they are gonna be fast to abandon those markets just because bourbon "is a thing" here in the U.S. now.



Then we have the added issues that come along with some of these big "conglomerates" (kinda like Remington, but I hope not). Some of them are foreign based and others certainly have foreign market interests.

I started my bourbon fetish with Knob Creek. It's a Jim Beam product. So they are still one of my favorite distilleries.

My favorite "peaty scotches" come from Laphroaig distillery.

So two of my favorites. Both are owned by a Japanese conglomerate.

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I don't know how comfortable I am with all that, and hopefully it doesn't bode ill for some of my favorite bottles. So far it hasn't but we'll see.
 
On the other hand, this Jack Daniel's Bottled in Bond, which is a Duty Free store exclusive (and significantly different and in my opinion better than what they just released here) is only
available in 1 Liter bottles. 1000ml. Go figure.




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Diablos said:
Mason jars are still the same size
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amnesia said:
Seems about right. Same with toilet paper. You see these mega packs with rolls the size of a football but what they don't tell you is they cut an inch of the side to make them wider.
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Same thing with drinks like Gatorade. They went from 32 to 28oz but the price is higher.
 
lightningbug said:
It's shrinkflation. Even more-obvious is craft beers casually changing six packs to four packs
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Or the fact bagels are in 5 packs instead of a 6.
 
Deodorant is what kills me more than anything. When I started using deodorant the sticks were like 3.2 ounces and now it is 1.7 ounces. I don't necessarily mind luxury goods suffering shrinkflation, but when it is stuff you need it sucks.
 
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