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Which would mean they are comparing to a standard they made up. Which is the gist of my point. Going further down the rabbit hole I find: Charmin rolls labele
by TomMckenny 8y ago
Which would mean they are comparing to a standard they made up. Which is the gist of my point.
Going further down the rabbit hole I find:
Charmin rolls labeled "4=16" have 308 sheets.
"Regular Rolls" were, when they were available, 121 sheets.
Other implied "standards" within Charmin vary from sku to sku. So apparently the Charmin Standard does not exist in their product line and is not a fixed value either.
They could just to put the total inches^2 on the package of course.
- austhrow743 8y agoElsewhere in the thread is people talking about how a business tried to do away with "on sale" shenanigans, just listed reasonable prices, and got fucked horribly. When it comes to anything marketing/sale you have to assume the answer to weird messages like that is "because thats what the consumer wants to see". They want everything they buy to be on sale. They want their toilet paper measured in make believe units. They want me to say "yes we have an option to record that credential, it's just not turned on for this demo" rather than "yeah we can rename the heading of that textbox during implementation" during a software demo.
- mark-r 8y agoI ignore the "sheets" numbers because those are completely defined by the manufacturer. The number they can't lie about is "sq. feet", so that's what I use to compare packages and brands.