Short Boxing Customers - by Michael Patrick Murphy - Dec 18, 2008

You walk into Blockbuster Video and purchase their 2 for 2 plus dollar candy special. You open your box of "Mike and Ike" and find a little bag of candy inside. The bag only takes up 2/3 of the box. You've been "short boxed."

For years the candy companies have been short-boxing customers in an effort to keep costs down and profits up. They excuse themselves by claiming that the candy settled after loading the box. This has always been a deception. In the manufacturer of "Mike and Ike" candy, JustBorn, Inc's case, the internal plastic bag is obviously too small to allow this kind of initial loading. Therefore, you have proof of short boxing when the box is 1/3 again the size of the internal bag. You are led to believe that there is more candy in the box then there actually is.

Companies like "JustBorn, Inc." that do this are ripping you off and get a red paw—always!