News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on Americans Are Using Less Steel, Paper, Fertilizer, and Energy. Parent comment

Re:Americans Are Using Less Steel, Paper, Fertilizer, and En... by uoaei on Wednesday October 09, 2019 @06:52PM (#21209050)
That may be your experience based on what you shop for and where you do it.

America is way behind Europe on this. 99% of the time I go to Safeway, I have to bring out my calculator because the reference volume/weight is different from the other items on the same shelf.

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Americans Are Using Less Steel, Paper, Fertilizer, and En... by j_jochem on Thursday October 10, 2019 @03:53AM (#21211961)
When I want to buy cherry tomatoes in German REWE, usually half the varieties have their unit price listed in €/100g, while the rest is in €/1kg. While metric does make converting in your head easy, I bet this still throws off a lot of the non-mathematical people and is done very much intentionally.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Americans Are Using Less Steel, Paper, Fertilizer, and En... by bpodgursky on Wednesday October 09, 2019 @09:38PM (#21210091)
Safeway and other grocery chains all list price per ounce next to the price.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Americans Are Using Less Steel, Paper, Fertilizer, and En... by mandelbrotwurst on Thursday October 10, 2019 @12:52AM (#21211022)
Interesting, yeah the Safeways I've been to have all had price per ounce pretty consistently.

What is a bit irritating is having to recalculate when items are discounted.

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Americans Are Using Less Steel, Paper, Fertilizer, and En... by seanmcdirmid on Thursday October 10, 2019 @02:54AM (#21211674)
They usually include the price per for the discounted tag also. Only when it’s a buy x get y free is it hard.
[ Parent | on HN ]