On 5/26/2012 12:25 PM, Chemo the Clown wrote:
> On May 25, 5:58 pm, Mark > wrote:
>> The new ones are only about 20% smaller
>> than the old ones. I wouldn't have noticed
>> if I didn't have a few of the cups in my car.
>> Usually, I finish my coffee in the store, but
>> occasionally I get out to my car before finishing,
>> so I accumulate a few empty cups. Today,
>> I stacked the cups together to throw them away,
>> and one cup wouldn't fully nest within the others.
>> I examined the cup below it to see if some foreign
>> object was getting in the way, but that cup was
>> empty. Comparing the two cups, I saw the older
>> cup is larger than the new ones. The difference
>> is just small enough that I didn't notice until
>> trying to stack the old and new cups together.
>>
>> Granted the cups and coffee are free, but it does
>> seem like a sneaky way to reduce costs -- the sort
>> of thing I expect from Safeway but not a good store
>> like Trader Joe's. A store that cares about its
>> customers and doesn't try to shave a little cost
>> at every opportunity. I hope this is not a harbinger
>> of things to come. That would ruin Trader Joe's.
>
> So sue them.

Don't get too extreme. Demanding your money back would be the first step...