Here's how it works. The coffee companies, the brand names we've been seeing on TV for the last few decades, decided to put their coffee in paper and plastic containers instead of metal cans. The public was outraged. They used those metal cans for everything. The furor, the letters, the complaints, caused the companies to bring back the metal can.
This worked for a while, and the coffee companies knew, in order to be competitive, they must eventually use the paper and plastic cans, to keep costs down. The coffee companies reintroduced the metal cans. There wasn't as much of an outcry this time, so the coffee companies made the switch permanent. You can no longer buy coffee in metal cans.
This is how it works. The corporations don't complain, they just give customer service and keep trying until they get their way. It doesn't matter what public wants. Throw in a little propaganda and patience and they can change what the public wants, even. Remember the 36oz coffee can. That's just business.
Sure they gave a discount, at first. The 32 ounce cans were cheaper, but soon the price rose, as could be expected, but so did the coffee company profits.
At least that's how it appeared across the checkout stand, as a consumer. I'd love to do research and put together some statistics on this, but I think this is how the public feels. Corporations get their way and it's a powerful force that we are trying to resist.
