A Pound Of Coffee?

NEW YORK, March 9, 2003
(CBS) A weekly commentary by CBS News correspondent Andy Rooney.
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There are certain things in life we ought to be able to depend on.

We have to trust each other sometimes. If you get a roll of 50 pennies at the bank, you don't count them. You trust that there's 50 cents in there. When you buy a container of milk, you trust there's a quart in it.

It's time for another chapter in our continuing series on how some businesses violate this trust by charging more and giving less for what they pretend is the same.

Our first report was on coffee in 1988. Chock Full O' Nuts had not only reduced the amount of coffee in the can, as I told viewers then, but they'd also reduced the size of the print telling you how much is inside.

Back then, the net weight on a one-pound can dropped to 13 ounces. Today, the same can of Chock Full O' Nuts isn't even as chock full as it was then – now it's just 11 ounces.

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