Stupid like a fox. Food costs have sky rocketed and we are all still buying. I love how they have brought back the more generic looking generic boxes. So that we will be tricked by our memories into thinking that somehow that design equals a less expensive product. Same price sometimes even more than a brand name. If you are not a wise careful consumer you will fall for all the tricks. It takes me hours to grocery shop now because I spend so much time figuring out what exactly I am willing to spend my very very hard earned $$$ on.

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My TV dinners and lunch meat come in the same package.

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Unit pricing can be useful in this regard.

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If they sell you gas at $2.99.9 they can tell you it is less than $3.00 a gallon, so 10 gals only cost $29.99. See how big a savings you get LOL

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Ever tried to compare prices on a "half gallon" of ice cream? Appears to be no such thing anymore, sad enough in of itself, but every brand has a different amount of product in the deceptively sized package...1.75 qt, 1.5 qt, even 1.68 qt (WTF?). Thank whatever Kroger has price/unit breakdowns on their shelf tags, but I end up walking up & down the aisle reading fine print & hoping I still remember the $ per ounce when I get to the other end, & then hiking back when I can't...and it's like a $5 cab ride from one end to other! Maybe I end up saving a few pennies, but I think I burn off more shoe rubber than I save

And I gave up trying to compare prices on paper goods like TP & paper towels years ago. Different brands use different units, & I'm not getting down on my hands & knees to read the fucking tags oh-so-conveniently located 3/4" from the floor...

And I only wish I felt better now...

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I was manager of a small store years ago. During my training I was told to price things
$1.99 not $2.00 because it looks like a bargain. The shopper thinks its a great deal. They'll be more likely to buy something at $1.99 then they will at $2.00. They've done studies that prove this. Which is why most things are $1.98 or $1.99. Big savings!!!! And this doesn't even take into account the smaller sizes they think we don't notice. It takes a college education to go shopping lately, with calculator in hand! And I saw a package of socks last week with 3..... thats right three.... socks in it. The reasoning being because you always lose one or one wears out before the others......... huh? By the time that happens the 3rd extra sock won't match. And its not like the 3rd sock was free, you definetly paid for it. So who is actually buying these?

Even converting to pure metric won't save you. Comparing something at 425 grammes versus 475 grammes is a nightmare. As jseal said, unit pricing.

What pisses me off is that fuel companies have imposed a cycle on the fuel price, so that fuel is dearer when you are most likely to buy (Friday, Saturday and Sunday) and less on days you're less likely to buy. It's a rip-off that the fuel companies have pussy-whipped the government watchdogs into accepting.

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They're not one in the same in your country?

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No conspiracy here at all it's simple supply and demand economic as the demand goes up so does the price and then when it goes down the price drops again.

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