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Re:Alexa Is in Households–and Amazon Is Losing Billions by eru on Wednesday July 24, 2024 @11:13PM (#41064409)
> Here in Europe, it's been mandatory to show a price related to a reasonable common base point (e.g. liter, kilogram, piece, usage-unit for laundry detergent) adjacent to the actual product's price for many years now. You can go and use 1/10/100 grams/milliliters though for small scale packages where that is reasonably common (e.g. spices), and that's it.

That's pretty irrelevant to the discussion at hand. It's about blind ordering without worrying about the price.

No one complained that Amazon was hiding prices or making price per quantity hard to discover.

Even with the legislation you suggest, wild price swings are still entirely legal.

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Re:Alexa Is in Households–and Amazon Is Losing Billions by tomoyoirl on Wednesday July 24, 2024 @11:47PM (#41064532)
Amazon is kind enough to include unit pricing on many UI elements.

It does seem to be less than consistent about the units, though. $/count, $/oz, $/g, $/lb, all on the same search page? Yes, and more :)

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Re:Alexa Is in Households–and Amazon Is Losing Billions by schrodinger on Thursday July 25, 2024 @02:47AM (#41065456)
The point was that they're _not_ kind enough when you buy through Alex. The instant coffee you bought last month could have doubled but if you say "Alexa add [the coffee] to my cart ot just work… and if my anexcodes extrapolate at all, LOTS people use this feature.
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