Re:UK: Food inflation rises to 18.2% as it hits highest rate...
by lotsofpulp on Friday March 24, 2023 @04:28PM
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The grocery store near me sells a bigger box of multigrain Cheerios for less than the smaller box. The smaller box is on the eye level shelf, and the bigger box is on the bottom shelf, you have to bend down to get to it.
It has been like this for years. It is not just cheaper by unit, the whole box is just straight cheaper, but I can only assume people do not want to bend down? Even the prices are clearly visible from standing position.
Re:UK: Food inflation rises to 18.2% as it hits highest rate...
by lozenge on Friday March 24, 2023 @05:11PM
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Yep, it's common for the cheapest things to be on the bottom shelf as they make the store the least money. And the way to combat it - always choose something from the bottom shelf then look further up to see if there's something you would prefer.
Re:UK: Food inflation rises to 18.2% as it hits highest rate...
by zeroonetwothree on Friday March 24, 2023 @04:58PM
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The Trader Joe's cheerios equivalent is 3x cheaper and tastes the same
You have to do this in the cereal aisle! All the different-sized boxes of the same exact cereal have wildly different price-per-weight. And the largest-sized box is rarely the cheapest-per-weight!
what surprised me is how expensive plain Cheerios have become. My wife explained it as if I were stupid - they are mostly whole grains and very little garbage. All the other cereals have so much crap in them that the input price hasn't increased as much.