{"id":414019,"date":"2010-03-10T17:47:47","date_gmt":"2010-03-10T22:47:47","guid":{"rendered":"tag:consumerist.com,2010:\/\/1.10003104"},"modified":"2010-03-10T17:48:47","modified_gmt":"2010-03-10T22:48:47","slug":"tropicana-hit-by-grocery-shrink-ray-introduces-half-ish-gallon-of-oj","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/414019","title":{"rendered":"Tropicana Hit By Grocery Shrink Ray, Introduces Half-ish Gallon Of OJ"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/consumerist.com\/assets_c\/2010\/03\/tropshrinkray-thumb-333x500-37984.jpg\">         <\/p>\n<p>The same crappy weather that has Wendy&#8217;s declaring a <a href=\"http:\/\/consumerist.com\/2010\/03\/wendys-if-you-want-tomatoes-you-will-have-to-ask.html\" >only-if-you-ask-for-them tomato policy<\/a> has made Tropicana pull out ye olde Grocery Shrink Ray, reducing their half-gallon Pure Premium OJ jugs by 5 oz. to 59 oz. <\/p>\n<p>In addition to shrinking the half gallon to a half-ish gallon, Tropicana is going to raise the price of the gallon-size Pure Premium containers by 5%-8%. We&#8217;re assuming the gallon will still be 128 oz.<\/p>\n<p>The reduced size\/increased prices will begin in May.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have now fully reviewed the extraordinary losses that the Florida citrus industry has suffered &#8212; the most devastating winter freeze and the smallest crop in 20 years,&#8221; said Tropicana in a statement earlier today.<\/p>\n<p>Because of the unpleasant weather in Florida this winter, the Dept. of Agriculture estimates that this year&#8217;s orange production is down 12% from last year.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424052748704655004575113593765269442.html?mod=WSJ_hpp_LEFTWhatsNewsCollection\" >Tropicana Raising Prices on OJ<\/a> [WSJ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The same crappy weather that has Wendy&#8217;s declaring a only-if-you-ask-for-them tomato policy has made Tropicana pull out ye olde Grocery Shrink Ray, reducing their half-gallon Pure Premium OJ jugs by 5 oz. to 59 oz. In addition to shrinking the half gallon to a half-ish gallon, Tropicana is going to raise the price of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5519,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-414019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414019","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5519"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=414019"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414019\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=414019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=414019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=414019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}