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Spot the difference

When I was growing up, there used to be a game called " Spot the difference " in the newspaper. That and the sports section are just about the only parts of the paper I read (the cartoons back home tended to be more political than funny). Basically, you are given two pictures with slight differences between them. Your task is to spot the differences between the two pictures. Sounds pretty simple, right? Except some are really tough because the differences are where you least expect them to be. Which brings me to the reason for this post. Grocery shopping these days has become an exercise in spotting the difference. Except here, your hard earned money is at stake, you are forced to play and the game is rigged. See if you can spot the difference between these 2 packages of flushable wipes from Costco : If you can't spot the difference, here's a hint: You still what happened there? The package went from 6.8 x 5.9 inches to 7.1 x 5.1 inches. That's a