glasgowcyclist
Charming but somewhat feckless
- Location
- Scotland
This is exactly *why* I will weigh packets - particularly of fresh produce and dairy...
Don’t you get odd looks weighing everything on your scales in the shop? 🙂
Butter
- Thread starter Webbo2
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Don’t you get odd looks weighing everything on your scales in the shop? 🙂
Reynard
Guru
- Location
- Cambridgeshire, UK
They probably avoid her as they think she's a drug dealer.
Reynard
Guru
- Location
- Cambridgeshire, UK
gbb
Squire
- Location
- Peterborough
Grabbed a bag of salt and vinegar crisps from the box the other day. We usually buy multipacks of McCoys as my autistic son usually won't eat any other crisps than cheese and onion McCoys!
The bag felt heavier, like there were definitely more crisps in it so I weighed it. The nominal weight is 25 grams, this bag weighted 52 (!) so clearly a double dose went into that bag. I just hope no poor sod got a completely empty sealed bag in their multipack!
Being a bit nerdy, they probably pack through something like an Ishida CCW weigher, through a hopper and into a VFF (vertical form fill) bagger. What used to happen is product (occasionally) gets stuck as it falls in the hopper, so the previous bag was almost certainly empty. That would have been rejected further down the line on the checkweigher...and obviously they havnt set an upper reject weight (discretion of the packer, no legal obligation) on same checkweigher...so through the overweight goes.
