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Re:Alexa Is in Households–and Amazon Is Losing Billions by Arrath on Wednesday July 24, 2024 @07:48PM (#41063427)
I had to do a double take a few weeks ago when I found the price/unit to be drastically different for the name brand to the store brand of something, until I realized they strategically switched the <unit> (# to oz I think it was) to make the store brand look astronomically cheaper instead of just slightly cheaper.
Re:Alexa Is in Households–and Amazon Is Losing Billions by newzisforsukas on Thursday July 25, 2024 @01:24AM (#41064983)
> strategically

More like deceptively...

If a person did that, I would consider the behavior antisocial.

Re:Alexa Is in Households–and Amazon Is Losing Billions by bombcar on Thursday July 25, 2024 @08:28AM (#41067849)
The one I’ve seen a couple of times recently is where the bigger item is more expensive per unit volume unit weight.

This is sneaky as hell.