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Have you noticed that the price per pound stickers at the grocery store are now price per ounce? In an attempt to make the numbers look smaller the retailers have made this change. In that I refuse to buy anything at a rate more than $2.00 per pound it needs to be recalculated for ounces which is 12.5 cents per ounce to impose the same limits on my spending.

-- mitch hearn (moopups@citlink.net), December 12, 2001

Answers

I've noticed the same thing . . . or the size of the box / bag / can is the same size as the old, just less weight of contents. It does get confusing sometimes; you really have to be paying attention.

-- j.r. guerra (jrguerra@boultinghousesimpson.com), December 12, 2001.

I had to buy a bag of sugar recently to finish up some baking, and I thought that the 5-lb bags looked a little smaller than what I remembered. Closer inspection showed that they were 4-lb bags. Same price of course.

-- Sherri C (CeltiaSkye@aol.com), December 12, 2001.

The marketers will will probably do for cereal and sugar and other packaging sizes what was done for candy bar sizes. Remember? Keeping the same price, they kept shrinking the bar size for a few years and then reintroduced the original size with new labels that called them "Jumbo" or "extra large" or such.

Ahh, Mr. Barnum, we suckers are born every minute.

-- charles (cr@dixienet.com), December 12, 2001.


Usually you think a bigger size will be cheaper, ain't necessarily so. You gotta watch at the local Super Valu, many of the smaller sized can good are cheaper than the family size.

-- Cindy (SE. IN) (atilrthehony@hotmail.com), December 12, 2001.

I've noticed the same kind of thing with unit pricing when comparing sizes. I believe it's designed to make comparisons more difficult. One example is one beverage container labled 12 oz. will be priced per ounce while the larger, 2 litre size is priced (you guessed it) per litre! I've found many, many instances wherein the larger size is in fact more expensive per measuring unit than the smaller size. It pays to look at these things. I hope this helps.

-- Gary in Indiana (gk6854@aol.com), December 12, 2001.


So, how many ounces are there in a two liter bottle? Are fluid ounces by weight or by capasity?

-- mitch hearn (moopups@citlink.net), December 12, 2001.

A 2 ltr bottle of pop is equal to 2.1 qts. Since a quart is 4 cups that means it is just over 8 cups or 64 ounces.

The sizes on most items seems to be shrinking, but of course the prices aren't...

I saw on the news that Krogers is going to lay off a bunch of management and clerical people. I hope they give serious consideration to the person who came up with the Kroger shopping card idea. It is just crazy!! I try not to go ther until there is a great sale, but it is almost impossible to keep up with theprices as they are ringing them up. they print the regular price on the receipt then deduct the amount off that is the discount if you have the card. but some things aren't deducted until the end. I think they just do anything to confuse people. You need a college education to read the silly receipt!!!

-- Melissa (me@home.net), December 12, 2001.


Boy does this hit a nerve. I'd just about quit fuming about the "ultra"laundry/dish detergent fiasco when they whammied the bleach. They only thing "ultra" means is less product for the same or increased price. When they did the dish detergent you were supposed to be able to use less. It didnt take me long to realize that they made the hole in the bottle bigger. Unless you are very careful a lot more of the soap is expelled with the usual amount of pressure. As for the laundry detergent...one day when I had a few minutes to kill I measured to the line they suggested and counted the number of loads in a med. size box. I cant remember how many loads there were supposed to be but they came up short by 5 loads. I make my own now for a lot less money. I agree with who ever said that they are trying to discourage comparison shopping. When I learned to shop with my mother buying in bigger quantities was always cheaper buy not anymore. I dont get discouraged by all this stuff but I dont appreciate the fact that "they" think I'm too stupid to figure out what "they" are doing. Oh yes, Melissa, didnt you love the Kroger turkey sale. Instead of saying how much they were a pound they made you use the card to get $5 off the small ones and $10 off the large ones. I had to use a calculator to figure out they were .49 a pound. I guess it keeps us on our toes. Blessings Peggy

-- peggy (peggyan2@msn.com), December 12, 2001.

I suppose I'm shooting myself in the foot, but I refuse to use those cards. I buy lots of stuff from co-ops and when we're settled enough I'm gonna make detergent, etc. already got the stuff and recipes.

-- Cindy (SE. IN) (atilrthehony@hotmail.com), December 13, 2001.

I had a friend in Orlando some years back, whom worked on a project for a major grocery chainstore; they were putting electronic transmitters on shopping carts and explaining that they were to keep track of the carts leaving the property. The real reason for the transmitters was to track the shopping patterns of the public in order to ambush us with impulse purchases. When the public caught wind of what was going on, most scrambled their patterns or went to different stores. It was a few months later that the store changed its name in Florida back to the companies original name.

-- mitch hearn (moopups@citlink.net), December 13, 2001.


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