The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) defines slack-fill as the difference between the size of a container and the volume of product contained therein. And while the agency does try to hunt down the misleading ones that do not allow the consumer to fully view its contents, every potato chips lover would tell you that they still hit the shelves.
Luckily, there's the r/NonFunctionSlackFill subreddit that works hard to expose them — its 49.1K members regularly share pictures of packages looking like they were intentionally designed to lure away our money. Continue scrolling to check out the most infuriating examples.
- Read More: 30 Examples Of Packaging So Misleading, It's Basically A Scam, As Shared On This Online Community
#1 Buoyancy
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#2 Biggest Letdown I’ve Had In A While
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#3 Only Function Here Is To Trick You Into Thinking It's A Bottle
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#4 Does This Count?
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#5 This Bamboozling Package
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#6 Not Buying This Kind Of Box From Michaels Again
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#7 Why Do You Have To Play Me Like That?
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#8 Bath Bombs
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#9 I Know Popcorn Is Mostly Air, But
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#10 Why Is This Not Illegal
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#11 This "Box" Of Beef Jerky
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#12 The Solar Panel Of My Flashlight Came Off And Reveals A Block Of Concrete To Make It Feel More Well-Built And Heavy
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#13 Sales Genius
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#14 These Were £5...guess I Should Have Checked The Weight. 330ml Coke For Scale
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#15 This Jumbo Tube Is Only Filled To The Letter E
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#16 I Get That Samples Are Samples, But What A Waste Of Plastic
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#17 Once You Turn This Jar Of Sprinkles Upside Down, You See The Real Quantity
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#18 Coloring Book For My Son
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#19 You Can Probably Imagine My Daughter's Disappointment When We Opened Up This Crayola "Super Art Tub"
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#20 An Entire Box Of Ice Creams Like This
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#21 2/5 Away
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#22 There’s Just Enough To Fit In The Window
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#23 $20 For 11 Chocolates. Happy Valentines
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#24 Just Enough To Make It To The Line
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#25 An Entire Tin Containing 8 Mini Snickers
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#26 This Vegan Ground Meat
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