feels bad :(
Dupeflation. I also consider people that buy 12 back over 2 liters to be duped but people could want the cana
As a wanter of cans I appreciate aluminum + cardboard for their recyclability (aluminum is highly economical to recycle and you can just bury cardboard and it will be dirt within a year (assuming sufficiently wet climate)) in comparison to PET plastic two liter bottles with their almost entirely unrecycleable labels and caps.
Though with the ways inflation has been impacting soda i just about only get it at restaurants now.
And it bounces around in every single cup holder now.
Crazy to me since normally monster cans are 16oz
16oz were sold out at my grocery store
I should be grateful because the caffeine puts me at risk for heart attacks lol
I love the tall skinny cans… I couldn’t tell you why, but I do.
its like holding a portable penis 😍
Smh
same they’re very gamer
12 Florida Ounces
Pretty soon they’ll be sold like this:
Is it weird that my nearly 50 yr old ass knows they are the same but reads the taller one as the smaller of the 2
Honestly, same. For some reason it always feels like I drink the tall, skinny cans faster. No idea why though.
No, because the squat one has a bigger volume. Half the squat one almost entirely filled the tall one.
edit you were talking about the real cans and not the comparison images weren’t you 🤔
Nope same
Kind of fun that the shorter version is result of an optimisation that minimise the tin area for that volume considering the processing, etc. That is, they become less efficient because they compensate all the extra cost with human flaws…
Is the shorter one more optimised?
The areas which requires the most aluminium are the relatively thick base and top, the walls can be much thinner.
Okay, did some actual reading:
There’s also a business incentive for skinny designs.
Brands can squeeze more 12 oz. skinny cans on store shelves, warehouse pallets and trucks than wider cans, said Dave Fedewa, a partner at McKinsey who consults for retail and consumer packaged goods companies. That means higher sales and cost savings.
But the key, Fedewa said, is that skinny cans catch the eye: “It’s funny how much growth that can drive in retail.”
https://edition.cnn.com/2023/03/30/business/soda-cans-slim-aluminum/
“We have moved to a sleek can and a completely new visual identity, with the aim to delight consumers by offering a more premium and more sustainable drinking experience,” the brand replied on Twitter.
The new shape is meant to visually communicate that the drink inside, which has been reformulated to eliminate artificial colors and sweeteners, is healthier than the typical fizzy beverage, said Thomas Conquet, marketing director of Sanpellegrino in the U.S.
“Consumers feel it’s a bit more elegant, a bit more upscale, a bit more adult when they have this can in their hands,” he said, citing testing conducted by the brand.
That last quote… yuck.
This was a nice addition. Regarding the surface vs volume optimisation I remember it was a high school mathematics problem but after review it this proportion is a height twice the radius of the cilinder, the standard/classic proportion deviates to a ~2.2 value considering many other factors like manufacturing limitations, etc. In any case the classic is closer to reduce the waste, etc than the slender one, the standard has like a 1.5% larger surface than the ideal, but the slim goes up to a ~10%
They could also put a big bottle and fill 20% way.
I hate tall skinny cans. Too precarious.
And too much surface area
That kid is a politician now.
All this time, we’ve been fooled into thinking that just because one product is bigger than another, it contains more. They actually have the same amount—the company just wants to take our money and leave us worse off.
To me the shorter one looks bigger but the slimmer one looks more elegant. The better looks make the drink taste a little better, so I prefer the slim and tall form of can.
