Consumers have been complaining about the company’s practices of Starbucks for years; people have even gotten the law involved! Here’s something to notice next time you order an iced drink at the world’s most famous coffee shop. Ice! Starbucks loads its drinks with ice, which leaves you with two sips best.
Your best bet around this scam is to order the drink with no ice and ask for a cup of ice on the side to add yourself! Take that, Starbucks! If you’re (Starbucks) not going to change your ways, then we will have to.
Soft Serve Society
Wow, just when you thought that companies couldn't get any lower — the Soft Serve Society in London pulled this trick. If they cared about their customers and the future of their business, a ploy like this might not be the best idea. When you ask for large ice cream, one would expect to receive a large ice cream.
Soft Serve Society decided to put a small ice cream cut into a larger one to make it look more appetizing. Still, this packaging illusion probably had many customers melting (no pun intended) with anger!
Honey Nut Cheerios
Even the beloved Honey Nut Cheerios aren't exempt from lying to their buyers. As we've seen up until now, many manufacturers continually decrease the volume and weight of their product, only to market it as a larger package! The Cheerios box weighs less than the standard size box, 5.4 ounces versus 17 ounces found in the usual offering.
Cheerios, shame on you! Another bit of information about Cheerios from us to you. The fact that they are coated in honey does not make them any less harmful than the regular ones that are just simply full of sugar.
KFC
Scandals may come and go, but the love for fast food stays forever and don't you just love fried chicken? So here is a little fact that you might not love that much. In 2013, a video of an employee showcasing mac-and-cheese and green beans went viral. "Why," you may be asking yourselves.
Well, according to him, they had been there "three of four days." Not only that, but the employee repackaged the food to be served the following day! The video surfaced again in 2017, and KFC stated that their policies and practices had been improved since the filming.
Store-Bought Cookies
Who stole the cookie from the cookie jar? Apparently, no one; there was only one cookie in the package. There has to be a reasonable explanation of why this cookie company produced containers that fit one cookie. We feel bad for whoever bought these cookies; even if the weight on the packaging is correct, it's still very disappointing to see that companies trick their buyers like this.
The plastic packaging might have cost more than the actual cookie production, which turns this product into something very uneconomical to the consumer, but, perhaps very profitable to the manufacturer.