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Re:Americans Are Using Less Steel, Paper, Fertilizer, and En... by syshum on Wednesday October 09, 2019 @07:03PM (#21209141)
Even with in the exact same product but different sizes I seem them use different units to make to hard to figure out which size provides the best value
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Re:Americans Are Using Less Steel, Paper, Fertilizer, and En... by Reason077 on Thursday October 10, 2019 @04:00AM (#21212000)
That seems odd to me. Wouldn’t the store want you to purchase the bigger product, and thus spend more money?

You’d think it would be in their interest to display the per-unit price comparison, to emphasise where a bigger package is better value.

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Re:Americans Are Using Less Steel, Paper, Fertilizer, and En... by syshum on Thursday October 10, 2019 @11:09PM (#21221215)
Only if the bigger product is actually the better value, that is not always the case.

I know of several products that the Mid Size packaging has the best Per Unit value.

And several where they are the EXACT same price per unit, so they want to push you to the bigger one hoping you will waste most of it.

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