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The cost of pepper is skyrocketing, so to control costs McCormick cut the amount of pepper they put in each of their tins by 25%. They changed the fluid oz on the label to reflect the change, but McCormick is still using the orginal larger tins we all know and love. Watkins is suing McCormick to get them to change their packaging to reflect the smaller amount of pepper.
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This law suit is nothing to sneeze at, and being a McCormick's man its hard to say, but I side with Watkins here.McCormick “gave the false impression that nothing had changed,” Watkins said in the suit. The new tins “are now 25 percent empty, which constitutes nonfunctional ‘slack-fill.’ ”
McCormick, as the dominant pepper player, has essentially set a standard for packaging in the market, and competing pepper brands often use similarly sized tins, Watkins said in the suit.
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