Diapers: the larger you go the less you get? Why?

sugarcube

Why is it that the larger in size you go the less diapers you get in a pack? 

JulyFiveBride

I don't know. It's ridiculous, though.

missamy713

I would assume it's because the bigger the diaper, the more stuff they use to make them.  Therefore, you get a fewer number of diapers for you money, but the same amount of "stuff."  (has a bad case of mommy-brain and can't think of a better word than stuff...sorry)

ShanJosh777

I think because they are the same price... so you get the same amount of diaper "material" which makes less bigger diapers.  I think it's a ripoff.

CherryHeart

I've always wondered this and it annoys me.

LukeAndAmanda

I'm assuming it's the same reason that the person who has to by 2XL pays extra...require more "material" to make them. I hate it too. Mostly because my DD can wear size 2, but I can't ever find them so I end up with size 3, and less of them!

Soter1

I pondered that too, I know DS goes less now, so we do use less.  Ditto the same amount of material....

LadyLove-GA

I always wondered that too, but I just thought of it as a company profit thing.

Agrippa

Probably for two reasons--they want to use the same amount of material for each pack, and they want to standardize pack size for ease of distribution.

vanillacourage

Agrippa:

they want to standardize pack size for ease of distribution.

Ditto this.  Newborn diapers come like 200/pack - if you had 200 size 4 diapers the box would be so big as to be impractical.