{"id":3674,"date":"2024-11-08T08:36:57","date_gmt":"2024-11-08T08:36:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/buzzfeednews.uk\/?p=3674"},"modified":"2024-11-08T08:36:57","modified_gmt":"2024-11-08T08:36:57","slug":"its-hard-to-spot-the-distinction-but-knowing-this-matters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/buzzfeednews.uk\/?p=3674","title":{"rendered":"It\u2019s Hard to Spot the Distinction, But Knowing This Matters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Despite protestations from the company, a federal judge has decided to move forward on a lawsuit against McCormick &#038; Co., the popular spice maker. The lawsuit has to do with the size of McCormick\u2019s ground pepper tins.<\/p>\n<p>A smaller player in the spice industry, Watkins Inc., filed a lawsuit against McCormick last year, claiming that the latter had reduced the amount of pepper in its tins by 25% while still using the same size tin. The old McCormick tins contained about 8 ounces of ground pepper. After the switch, the tins now contain about 6 ounces of ground pepper.<\/p>\n<p>Despite this reduction in quantity the size of the tin has in fact remained the same. Watkins claims that this means that McCormick is using a visual trick to make it seem like they are selling more pepper per tin than they really are.<\/p>\n<p>Watkins and McCormick sell the same product, but their marketing techniques are different. McCormick has non see-through containers that obscure the amount of product that they contain. Watkins has a smaller-sized container even though they contain the same amount as McCormick\u2019s. That\u2019s why Watkins is suing McCormick.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite protestations from the company, a federal judge has decided to move forward on a lawsuit against McCormick &#038; Co., the popular spice maker. The lawsuit has to do with the size of McCormick\u2019s ground pepper tins. A smaller player in the spice industry, Watkins Inc., filed a lawsuit against McCormick last year, claiming that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2724,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-random-stuff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/buzzfeednews.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3674","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/buzzfeednews.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/buzzfeednews.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/buzzfeednews.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/buzzfeednews.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3674"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/buzzfeednews.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3674\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3675,"href":"http:\/\/buzzfeednews.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3674\/revisions\/3675"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/buzzfeednews.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/buzzfeednews.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/buzzfeednews.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/buzzfeednews.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}