The Best Halloween Candies Ranked

     It’s that time of year again!!   While Snickers had the crown of the most popular Halloween candy for a long time, there’s a new champion now–can you guess what it is?   Which of these is your favorite? I  know I’m old now because my favorite (3 Musketeers) isn’t even on the list…   Read More…

Yet Even More Evil Food Packages

Once again, this time from Buzzfeed,  here’s a bunch of food packaging that SHOULD be illegal somehow but just isn’t.  In some cases it could just be an error in packaging or making the food, but a lot of them are just blatant attempts to misrepresent the product.  (3 pepperoni pizza?  Cmon.)  It’s the same Read More…

Which Size Goes On The Right?

    Decades ago when I started working retail, I learned a basic rule of merchandising when building displays or setting shelves–if you have multiple sizes of an item, the larger size goes on the right.  So if you have say Listerine mouthwash in 3 sizes, you would merchandise them as follows:    12 oz—-18 Read More…

25 More Evil Packaging Designs

And here’s the rest of the list.  The pizza in #29 is especially egregious.  I guess we just have to accept the fact that packaging is created to mislead us and take the time to read the label.  Or, just lower your expectations. I recently was given a box of Cracker Jacks for the first Read More…