1/3 full brand new deodorant

ok, I snorted.... well played.

Shrinkflation at its finest.

No, this is just the dollar store travel version and they didn't want to resize the bottle. Normal deodorant is more like 3 oz. My spray sure deodorant is 6 oz
That being said it's still a rip off
- This makes the most sense actually.
  Totally misleading due to the bottle size. I've purchased travel overpriced deodorant and it was a half stick anyway.
Greedflation

I cant decide if this is mildly infuriating or very infuriating. Wow, the fact someone thought this was a good idea. No, fill the goddamn thing. Nobody needs a quarter amount of deodorant. What a waste of packaging.

I was trying to think of an ergonomic justification, but probably they want to sell x amount of deodorant paste at $y price and to fill the thing and still charge that much would make the stick more expensive than they wanted.
Shitty, thanks capitalism.
- And possibly trying not to bear the price of retooling the packaging. Was it ever sold in this packaging completely full?
- Yeah, don't get caught in the trap of trying to defend them lol, it's a waste of time
It's known as shrinkflation. Companies want to make more money. Simply asking the customer for more money is hard because we're all well aware of the price we've been paying for something, plus they have to sit on a shelf next to a competitor who might not have raised their price. So instead most products will reduce what you get instead.

You get 45 grams according to the package. It's more cost effective for them to just put it in the same packaging as the regular sized and just change the label rather than shut down and change the production line to accommodate the smaller size.

And of course the fact this obviously creates the illusion there's more product and therefore can trick customers it's just a happy accident, right?
I get that, but from an environmental point of view, this is an absolute travesty.
Could also be a function thing too. My travel deodorant has an amount that is 3 times smaller and it kinda sucks to hold.
That doesn't change the fact its misleading. Not everyone walks around with a god damn scale, knows the average weights of deodorant off the top of their head. The average person is going to look at this and assume its full and that's how the manufacturer wants it.
ackshually if you get out your scales and do a little homework..
no. fuck you.
- So you, I dunno, read the label where it shows the net weight, and compare it to other similar products nearby on the same shelf? Hell, most store shelf pricing has price per unit on it now, so you can compare prices pretty directly. Yeah, I get that it's not completely consistent where that's implemented, but it's far and away better than the days of "price gun sticker on item and that's it."
- Not everyone is like you and doesn't understand how weight works.
  If you're going to complain about something, at least attempt to understand it before bitching. Otherwise you just look lazy.

Secret's small enough for a 3-1-1 bag but made to rip you off through shrinkflation.

that's terrible

Is it? How much did it cost?

Real asshole design would have been to use an opaque container so you couldn't see that you were being ripped off.

Looks like the amount you get from buying it at a Dollar Store. I've had a similar issue when I forgot deodorant on vacations in the past.

I use crystal deodorant, and I'm nearing the "end" of what I can actually use, but there's probably another 9 months worth of actual deodorant left (this stuff lasts YEARS).

There's no way to actually remove the last half of it without breaking the dispenser.

Like with yours, they put this in a clear container, so it bothers me every time I use it.

I tried crystal, but even after my body got used to it I still smelled super bad. Now I've been using Native and it works well for me but it's pricey. Everyone's body is different I guess.
- The crystal stuff helps me to sweat less, but it did very little for the odour (which is surprising because it's the opposite of what it claims to do)
  My routine now is to use the crystal, then put a drop of diluted (skin safe) tea tree oil on a cloth and rub that on my pits.
  At first the tea tree oil was just to disguises the odour, but after a few weeks even if I forgot the tea tree one day the odour was much improved. My theory is that the antimicrobial properties of tea tree combined with the crystal have worked together to prevent the bacteria and yeasts that make odour worse.
  I like the crystal because I have circulation issues and it causes hyperhidrosis in my peripheries, so I've been able to use it on my hands and feet too. I don't want my hands to smell like deodorant but I do want them to be less wet. It doesn't help the numbness, coldness and blue skin, but it's less embarrassing to just have zombie hands than to have soggy zombie hands.

The ones I see online are 73 grams in the same container. Where was this purchased? And yes of course they ought to have put it in a squatty travel sized container. But this one is not the standard amount.

The great irony is putting it in a squatty travel sized container is probably more expensive, and doesn't save nearly as much plastic as you would think.
Having to set up an entirely new production line just to make smaller containers, or retooling your existing production, would likely incur a significant cost.
On the plastic front, the overwhelming majority of plastic in something like that deodorant is in the base, lid, and "pusher" system. Making it shorter only removes a small section of the least-plastic-dense portion of the whole thing.
They could make a smaller one, but the only real benefit would be show & portability, and it would probably come at a premium per ounce

Well they are sold by weight so you know what you're getting if you pay attention.

I've switched to spray deodorant, which I'm sure hides just as much shrinkflation but seems more efficient.

TBH I've never used up a deodorant before I lost it somehow, but I would like less plastic waste.

You may have a pretty severe case of something like ADHD going on. I don't me an this to be a jerk. If you lose things so much that you have literally never finished a thing of deodorant, you've certainly lost many other important things in your life.
- Lmao, they've moved on from self diagnosis to armchair psychiatrics. Fuck off, mate. You've insulted me, an entire field of professionals backed by science, and yourself.

Get salt sticks. They last for years.

Coming from someone who's friend did this...no....no they don't. Not even remotely. You just got used to your stink, and people typically aren't assholes enough to say anything about it to you. It's about as effective as using a magic crystal to ward away the smell. Hell, the salt stick even smells like an armpit after the first 2-3 times you use it.

It's cheaper to put less product in the same packaging than it is to put less product in different packaging. You are paying for the product, and I believe there is a "net wt" shown. That's (supposed to be) for the product alone without the packaging. If you were to buy a greater amount of product in the same packaging, it would cost more, and you would complain about that instead.

Same with chips (crisps if you're outside of FreedomLand). The extra space in the bag is to prevent crushing, and is often filled with nitrogen or some other relatively inert gas to extend freshness. The product is sold by weight of the product.

In this case, it's deceptive. If the packaging used to contain more product, you could reasonably assume the same package would contain the same amount of product. This is shrinkflation. If you're going to raise prices, just do it. Don't try and trick people, because many will notice and get pissed off.
Are you seriously implying that you check the net weight of every single product you ever purchase, especially ones You've purchased regularly in the past?
I get the sense that a LOT of people are idiots and just make the observation that “big bag, lot product” instead of simply looking at the net weight… it’s on EVERY label ffs!