one of my pet peeves about marketing is that zinc-chloride batteries are frequently sold as "heavy-duty" despite being worse than alkaline batteries in basically every way
this is because when they were newly invented, they were capable of heavier-duty tasks than other batteries on the market, so whatever agencies regulate battery labelling said "okay you can call these heavy-duty"
then alkaline cells were invented and the awful zinc-chloride cells are still called heavy-duty
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@Felthry this reminds me of how, at Starbucks, the small size is called “tall”, because at one point, there was a SMALLER size, and tall was bigger than it. Grande (currently a medium) eventually was introduced as a large size, and then venti (20oz) was introduced on top of that.
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@coda I think "fancy ketchup" is a similar situation, too. Also "unleaded" gasoline/petrol
at least people know what they're getting there, I think heavy-duty batteries veer off into "deceptive marketing" territory really!
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@coda (re: the ketchup thing, I don't know where you are or if they do this outside the US too but in the US most ketchup bottles and packets are marked as "fancy ketchup" because it was the top grade the US food and drug authority assigned to ketchup based on percentage of actual tomato or something I forget what)
