As of: February 13, 2024, 3:15 p.m
By: Nico Reiter
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A flexitarian weighs in.
His tofu block contains less content than stated on the package.
He sends the evidence to the company - and receives compensation.
Vienna – Most customers are now familiar with shrinkage.
If the price is the same, the package information decreases.
But even more annoying are deceptive packages: products that claim to contain a certain amount but do not.
A Viennese also checks whether a block of tofu he has bought is really as heavy as stated and uses a scale to help.
The man had 20 grams too little tofu in his package (symbolic image) © Pond5 Images/Imago
“Product Duck of the Year”: Customer suspects a fraudulent package and puts tofu on the scales
The flexitarian mainly eats plant-based products, as he reports to the Austrian newspaper
Today
.
Billa, a subsidiary of Rewe, ended up with a block of tofu in his shopping cart.
When he arrived home, the Viennese noticed that the block seemed unusually light.
According to the packaging, the product should weigh 300 grams.
He decided to check with a scale.
His suspicions were confirmed: the customer received a full 20 grams too little.
“Since the product seemed quite small, it was simply placed on the scales and the result was unfortunately as expected.
“The tofu, including liquid and packaging, weighed just 280 grams,” the disappointed Viennese told the newspaper
Today.
“If you then subtract the liquid and the packaging, it probably weighs another 20 percent less and has therefore won a nomination for product duck of the year.” Every year, the consumer advice center chooses the deceptive package of the year.
20 grams too little – Billa supermarket apologizes with a voucher
The constantly rising prices are putting a strain on many customers.
If the product doesn't deliver what it promises, that's even more annoying.
“Inflation is already hitting the wallets of the little man and the little woman.
The weekly shopping is no longer possible anyway.
Something like that just breaks the camel’s back!” says the angry Viennese to
Today
.
With his photographic evidence he contacted the Billa Group.
After a few weeks, he received a response from the supermarket chain with an apology: “We are very sorry that your shopping experience was marred by the complaint you described.
The satisfaction of our customers is very important to us and we would therefore like to apologize to you for this incident.” As compensation, the customer received a shopping voucher worth 2 euros.
How much variation in the filling quantity is allowed?
Minimal differences in product quantity are allowed.
The “e” next to the filling quantity confirms that the content may not be exactly the same, but is within the permissible deviations, explains
verbrauchent.at
.
In this case, the 300 grams “e” is not the minimum filling quantity, but the nominal filling quantity.
On average it contains 300 grams, but deviations upwards and downwards are taken into account.
With a net filling quantity of 200 to 300 grams, up to 9 grams less is permitted.
Therefore, the customer actually received too little at 280 grams.
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