When “more to share” really means “more plastic wasted,” we’re ticked off! Doritos thought of a clever way to sell more expensive bags of chips when really, you’re getting the same amount. If there’s something our parents taught us, it’s always read the fine print, and let’s just say we’re happy we listened to them!
The Doritos bag claims it’s a bigger bag, but reading the tiny text; you’ll notice it contains the same amount as the standard bag. Remember- the size doesn’t always count, there is more (or less) than just the packaging and at the end of the day, listening to our parents will only benefit us. We promise.
Shrimp
If you've gotten this far in the article, this one will definitely not surprise you. At first, we laughed. But then, we became upset. Yes, we will admit these shrimp look questionably long, but this kind of deception still troubles us. What can you do with shrimp heads anyway? If anyone has any shrimp head recipes, please, send them our way!
Getting upset is one way of dealing with this however, another way is comprehending that shrimp heads are the perfect base for Bouillabaisse. The classic and ultimate French delicacy. When Chinese brands give you small shrimp, make shrimp soup out of it.
Spirit
Spam is annoying as is; we don't need Spirit giving us a heart attack too! Opening up this e-mail, we might have a mini heart attack. Miss, our flight? Never! Now that we've got that settled, we can breathe deep and let the anger wash away, knowing sooner rather than later, we'll be on vacation. A vacation we wouldn't miss in the world.
Take that, Spirit! This is another great example of what happens when a company (and it doesn't matter which one), pays low salaries to average workers that produce bad copywriting.
Emergency Alert
When an ad is disguised as an emergency alert, we can’t help but be unimpressed with such a weak tactic. Getting people's attention through tricks about an emergency exit is dangerous but also incredibly tacky. Using such a cheap trick is a great way to ensure that your consumers are cautious.
And besides, this is supposed to bring people into a tranquility zone, right? We mean, that it was meditation is all about. Since when in bright red and the words emergency and every, been related to tranquility? We have a feeling Master Kirsty found herself alone at Heart of Bay and began 2018 solely.
Skimygloop
We never really liked googly eyes; they always had a way of irking us out. Now we have all the more reason to dislike them. You'd expect the jar to have a substantial amount of googly eyes inside, wouldn't you? However, when you look at the bottom of this bottle, there's a plastic tube right down the middle. This has us rolling our (googly) eyes!
You would have thought that considering these eyes weigh so little and are relatively easy and cheap to produce, they would have offered a full bottle's worth of eyes, but then again, business is business, and if the producer of these can do whatever they want, so can we. No more purchasing eye for us.