I didn’t want to hijack the Toothbrush thread elsewhere so I’ll start a new one.
There was an article many years ago about TV and print ads. The amount of toothpaste shown on the brush was quite more than necessary. I remember suggestiosn that the paste be the size of a pea, not looking like a hot dog.
An oddity. ever notice the Bounty commercial where they accidently spill a liquid and it starts flowing towards the whits carpet or the lottery ticket. Someone grabs the paper towel and rather stopping the drip at the furthese point where it would do damage, they wipe the spill towards the thing they are trying to protect.
Companys come up with terrific ways to either hide things from consumers or increase sales. It was common to add a word to the directions… REPEAT… and sales might double. I called a shampoo manufactorers helpline and asked why the word repeat was used. The rep started talking about the first application broke down the oil and the second application washed away the oil and debris, etc. I suggested the product was too weak to do the job it you had to use twice as much. They sent me a coupon for more shampoo.
Companys will change the ingredients slightly or more importantly the size and then it become NEW and IMPROVED.
When a product line or company is sold, the new owner, in my opinion, starts cost cutting. The taste usually gets worse and the price will then go up. An example, Marie Collanders Fettucine Alfreado Dinners. They included ‘spice packs’ which were salt and pepper packets. When the comapny was sold, those packets stopped being included. Granted that particular change was probably less than a part of a penny per dinner but they were gone. Then the flavor changed enough that I started just making my own sauce and stopped buying the dinners.
There are targeted ads which look at your location and display an ad that has nothing to do you where you are. You could be living in a rural farming are and see ads touting people in mansions. I live in a very rural farming area with a town the size of a post office. I see ads for tremendous work opportunities listed here. Really? 12 sq miles and 4300 people and one traffic light at the edge of town.
[edit] I have some delay or a bad keybord. Sometiumes I have t oedit a post to correct spelling or the odd location of a space