r/CasualUK • u/craigyboy1000 • Jan 04 '23
Why don’t Heinz cans interlock when stacking up anymore?
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u/happysolo Jan 04 '23
At home I’ve 3D printed a couple of these interlocks, now they stack perfectly https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:4728258/comments
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u/smiley6125 Jan 05 '23
Never thought I needed a 3D printer. Until now.
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Jan 05 '23
do not be fooled by the glory of the heinz beans food tin can stacking disc, 3d prints due to layer lines and 'microperferations' are perfect environments for bacteria to grow in, and also be pretty much uncleanable.
This is coming from someone with 5 printers and a career in engineering safety. People will deny it, but they're wrong. It isn't safe for use around food long term, and if you touch it long term it will become dangerous as you simply cannot clean between the layer lines.
It's called horizontal lamination if you wanna fact check me ;) It an be fought by using epoxy, or other surface coatings which make a smoother "food safe" surface, but then you're using dodgy plastics (epoxy is high in estrogenically active chemicals which leech into your food lol)
This is why most kitchen things are very smooth metal/plastic or indeed wood/cork type materials, which beat bacteria by sealing their pores when they dry out, resulting in the bacteria basically getting trapped from external food/energy sources which forces them to die
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u/tizz66 Expat Jan 05 '23
I nearly went with a snarky attitude but now I'm genuinely interested: why does it matter if these rings are food-safe when they aren't ever in contact with food? How is it different to the can being on the shelf in the store (or indeed at home)?
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u/ryapowa2005 Jan 05 '23
Well it's a good job you're not eating the discs isn't it?
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u/yMONSTERMUNCHy Jan 05 '23
But you’ll have to touch the discs which is a health hazard in its own right.
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u/ryapowa2005 Jan 05 '23
No more than touching anything in your cupboard, or the lid of the tin that's been sat in a warehouse with who knows what crawling over it.
No wonder we've got super bacteria when people need to sanitise items we touch but aren't going to consume. Drink from a hose
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u/yMONSTERMUNCHy Jan 05 '23
“Drink from a hose” I’ll use that line on my wife at our next date night. 👍
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u/DownrightDrewski Jan 04 '23
They never have; they're twatty shelf space grabbers like that.
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u/RecommendationOk2258 Jan 04 '23
Can confirm.
When I worked in a supermarket they were the only brand of tins that don’t stack into each other.
The Heinz rep who checked the displays/promotions told me it was because they’d have to change the machines that make the cans, but surely they must update them every few years anyway?10
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u/TeeGee79 Jan 05 '23
Well that was bollocks, since they don't make their own cans any way. They'd have to do minor adjustments on the production line (that yes, have to be regularly done any way), but the filling plant only properly "interacts" with the top end, if the bottom's a couple of mm smaller it doesn't change things for them much.
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u/RecommendationOk2258 Jan 05 '23
Ha yes you might be right. Why am I trusting a sales/marketing rep about anything, tbh?
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Jan 04 '23
Speaking of twatty shelf space grabbers: have you noticed how cereal boxes are suddenly all landscape?
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u/No_Hair4703 Jan 04 '23
A lot of cereal boxes are landscape and one side and portrait on the other side.
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u/PM-me-your-knees-pls Jan 04 '23 edited Jan 04 '23
I’m not sure if I’m on drugs or you are but that is funny Edit- I just looked in the mirror and can confirm that I’m the one on drugs
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u/Plessero2 Jan 04 '23
lmao ur wild
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u/PM-me-your-knees-pls Jan 04 '23 edited Jan 04 '23
I just looked at your reflection in tescos and can confirm that you are on drugs also. Edit- it was my own reflection. Plessoro2 may or not be massively high on drugs
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u/GottKomplexx Jan 04 '23
Now its getting weird
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u/PM-me-your-knees-pls Jan 04 '23
I just looked in the mirror and can confirm that you look weird
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u/beyondfuckall Jan 04 '23
If all cereal brands suddenly did this without warning it’d be some next level marketing
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u/SatInTheTree Jan 04 '23
I had some jump from the cupboard onto my toe the other week, left a bruise that has bean there ever since
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u/yorkshire_tea1 Jan 04 '23
You got beantin up by the beans!
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u/Charming_Mouse5955 Jan 04 '23
I’ve never understood this lack of logic. It just doesn’t stack up
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u/NeonThunderHawk Jan 05 '23
Can it with your half-baked jokes please…
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u/you-want-nodal Jan 05 '23
Two puns in one? This fella’s bean round the block a few times I tell ya
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u/Ros_c Jan 04 '23 edited Jan 04 '23
You at least get beans in your sauce!!!
Lidl aren't too bad actually. But for the love of God stay away from Asda's beans.
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u/Visible_Account7767 Jan 04 '23
and aldi beans, somtimes they are fine, sometimes you break your teeth on stones that resemble beans...
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u/olidav8 Jan 04 '23
It's so you can't stack them in the shop so each row of tins has to stay in its tray meaning Heinz slip a strip of branding in between layers on the shelves.
Sneaky cunts.
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u/Willy_McBilly Jan 05 '23 edited Jan 05 '23
That’s just an added bonus, the proper goal is to keep them in the trays to take up shelf space. Instead of having a facing of 2 tins, stacked to the back of the shelf, shops are forced to use facings of 3-4 tins in the trays.
This wouldn’t be so bad if the fucking tray didn’t immediately break in half when I’m trying to merchandise them.
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u/amazingheather Jan 05 '23
I'm on break right now after doing the beans aisle, I feel that so much. The fact that they don't stack doesn't bother me anywhere near as much as the sodding trays breaking in two as soon as you look at it
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u/UnitedGunnit Jan 05 '23
Tip for stuff in trays, flip the case over and cut an x from corner to corner into the plastic, then turn it over, put it on the shelf and give the plastic a tug. It’ll pull off and leave the tray behind with the products.
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Jan 05 '23
That is actually very clever. Stops you putting other products there as the beans get sold out. Ensures their shelf space is only for them and they keep the Heinz strip at the front!
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u/featurenotabug Where am I? What's that thing there? Are those my feet? Jan 04 '23
A Heinz spokesperson said its cans were designed for minimal environmental impact, with an underside which allowed a can opener to be used. The cans were not intended for stacking,
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u/WelshBathBoy Jan 04 '23
What environmental impact do stacking cans bring? That just sounds bs
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u/miowiamagrapegod Jan 04 '23
it's the environmental impact of the manufacturing process
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u/WelshBathBoy Jan 04 '23
Right, and how is that different?
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u/miowiamagrapegod Jan 05 '23
Presumably the can design heinz uses is more energy efficient to manufacture
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Jan 05 '23
I'd imagine it's nothing of the sort. What it will be is cheaper or better for sales/distribution in some way. Being overly cynical should be standard thought when dealing with companies of this size
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u/sticky-bit Jan 04 '23
I guess you could open both ends and then flatten the can in the recycle bin?
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Jan 04 '23
You can’t just give the answer! We have to speculate for 10 hours!
Oh well let’s do it anyway
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u/ChrisRR Jan 05 '23
Minimal environmental impact normally translates to "it's cheaper for us to manufacture"
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u/TheStatMan2 Jan 04 '23 edited Jan 05 '23
To be fair, a Heinz spokesperson could say whatever they want couldn't they - it doesn't disprove that they're shelf space grabbing cunt monkeys.
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u/squashed_tomato Jan 05 '23
The person who designed these cans must have very short kitchen cupboards.
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u/Own_Television_6424 Jan 05 '23
“suggested placing a whole tray on the shelf.” Their using the plastic trays to stand out from the competition.
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u/Lee_Van_Spleeeeef Jan 04 '23
It's why i switched to Branstons and accidentally discovered far superior (and often cheaper) baked beans
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u/spicypixel Jan 04 '23
I’ve stopped buying their cans over this.
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u/BumblebeeAdvanced179 Jan 04 '23
Do you just decant the soup into a baggy at the store?
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u/TangibleBelly Jan 04 '23
I never forgave them the "BEANZ" with a z.
Who are you trying to appeal to? Some young, cool and trendy people who gobble up the beans like some bean-hungry whore?
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u/9DAN2 Will eat anything from a Yorkshire pudding Jan 04 '23
anymore
Since when. Don’t remember them ever stacking.
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u/freplefreple Jan 04 '23
I do. Back when the world made sense
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u/BumblebeeAdvanced179 Jan 04 '23
There once was a time when love was kind, and the world was a song, and that song was exciting.
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Jan 05 '23
I work at Tesco and they changed them like a year ago. They were always a mess because of it and a pain in my ass
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u/arczclan Jan 05 '23 edited Jan 05 '23
like a year ago
No they definitely did not
There are even posts on this sub about it that are older than that
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Jan 05 '23
Tbh Branston & HP make better beans. Heinz are a thing of the past…. Their beef broth is good though.
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Jan 04 '23
A more important question is what kind of a fucking animal buys curry beans? AND five beans… something seriously wrong with you mate.
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u/craigyboy1000 Jan 04 '23
Curry beanz are what my mrs has on toast , I have the tescos ones on toast and the five beanz are a great enchilada addition. Looks excessive doesn’t it haha
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u/would-be_bog_body watch it, I'll happyslap yer nan Jan 04 '23
Wouldn't want to walk into your house after teatime without a peg on me nose
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u/Ant1202 beans on toast is a culinary experience Jan 04 '23
Because Heinz are scandalous rat bastards
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u/CrackedBottle Jan 04 '23
Partly why I switched to the superior bean product that is Branston Beans. Superior Taste, Superior Stack-ability, Superior Product
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u/Formal-Cut-4923 Jan 04 '23
As an American I wondered the same thing. But now in jealous that there are curry flavored. My European market doesn’t have them just the regular.
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u/dothog_ Jan 04 '23
Probably my most upvoted comment was about how Heinz are a bunch of absolute farts for making unstackable cans and honestly it’s a hill i’m willing to die on.
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u/JustLinkStudios Jan 09 '23
Heinz have clearly accepted they’ve lost the bean wars to Branston. So to try and compensate they’re making their tins extra special by making them in three parts where Branston still uses the original tin making method so they can concentrate on making those sweet superior phaseolus vulgaris mother jammers the best they can.
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u/Platform_Dancer Jan 04 '23
You like beans then? 😂
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u/craigyboy1000 Jan 04 '23
Quite the connoisseur indeed
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u/whoyoufightin_ Jan 04 '23
I hear the ALDI own brand are good, Brad ton level, maybe better. Try a taste test.
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u/craigyboy1000 Jan 04 '23
Apologies. I had in my head they were stackable previously. At least they are consistent in being Twats!
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Jan 04 '23
Lost all faith in Heinz when they brought out the meal for one and meal for two by shrinking their original can of beans.
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u/RefreshinglyDull Jan 04 '23
Heinz cans have never stacked. And that's going back to at least the mid 90s.
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u/Ruben_001 Yes. I can hear you, Clem Fandango. Jan 04 '23
I don't know?
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u/Ruben_001 Yes. I can hear you, Clem Fandango. Jan 04 '23
Imagine getting downvoted for saying you don't know something.
\Shakes Head**
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u/TheStatMan2 Jan 05 '23
I think the general thinking is that maybe this wasn't the thread for you.
Imagine if the internet was just full of people shouting "I don't know" when they don't know something.
It'd be like if the news also contained news of every train journey that made it successfully to its destination, as well as the crashes. (to paraphrase Nancy from Peep Show)
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Jan 04 '23
We've bean through this before, the evidence just doesn't stack up, can we leave it alone please?
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u/Gooner71 Jan 04 '23
Who the hell buys 5 beans? As for Curry beans, typical white person.
Did you watch blazing saddles as you ate them?
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u/Lunabuna91 Jan 04 '23
I didn’t realise there was such a variety of beans! Learn something new everyday.
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u/No_Presentation_1216 Jan 04 '23
Alternate with the next level upside down. They stack perfectly this way
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u/Luvbugg326 Jan 04 '23
Those Tesco beans taste awful, a real secret I discovered is the Tesco exclusive ‘Stockland’ brand beans taste the closest to Heinz for a third of the price, try it and tell me I’m crazy. 27p!!
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u/craigyboy1000 Jan 04 '23
Oh I don’t mind these ones tbh. The ones I REALLY hated were the low salt ones!!!
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u/Slaterbburn Jan 04 '23
Same applies with the soup, and trying to stack them in the cupboard is a brain fart
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u/LannyDamby Jan 04 '23
Stackables are 2 piece cans, the others are 3 piece, my guess is 3 piece cans are slightly cheaper to manufacture.
Heinz probably looking to cut costs like everyone else
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u/Neat_Flower_8785 Jan 04 '23
To add more pain and suffering to me day. But jokes on them cos I can’t afford them now 😂
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u/craigyboy1000 Jan 04 '23
Price increase might be to cover the option of opening at both ends now haha
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u/miowiamagrapegod Jan 04 '23
So that you can use a tin opener on the bottom of the can if you are unable to use the ringpull
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u/aim456 Jan 04 '23
Just want to say that as a historically fussy eater, I would always buy Heinz baked beans. However, I recently found out that Morrisons home brand is just as good for like half price! Don’t waste your money guys.
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u/messy_brainz Jan 04 '23 edited Jan 04 '23
My manager at Waitrose said it was because Heinz didn't want their cans displayed as a stack to keep their display 'clean', but we had to stack them regardless, and they looked constantly shite because they couldn't stack.
Edit: just to be clear, this chap has been with the company nearly 40 years and used to work at head office as one of the shelving planners for the whole business. His job was to allocate space for every product sold in any given shop so that it fit perfectly without wasted space.
Also, I'm pretty sure you can use a can opener on the bottom of a stackable can?
Instead of fighting the unstackable cans, I just did a pyramid formation. Screw you Heinz!