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>In the EU, shops are required to display the price per <appropiate round value>, i. e. all coffees have a (usually smaller, but readable) Euro/500g price. Gro
by breakbread 7y ago
>In the EU, shops are required to display the price per <appropiate round value>, i. e. all coffees have a (usually smaller, but readable) Euro/500g price.
Grocery stores in the US do this, but it's not something you necessarily see in food service shops.
- r00fus 7y agoIt's not consistent. Sometimes they $/lb sometimes they price $/item - for the same class of item. It's as often design to mislead and prevent comparison as it is to inform you that "store brand is definitely cheaper than name brand". Since none of it is mandated, they do only what benefits their bottom line or they are publicly pressured to.
- benibela 7y agoThey do that in the EU/Germany, too €/item, €/100g, €/1kg are all common
- panpanna 7y agoIn 99% this is _not_ a EU thing. Maybe some German law?? Or just common practice in Germany? Edit: I think I confused your response with parent. I understand price/kg is a thing although I didn't knew it was mandated by law. What I don't understand is being forced to use some odd unit like price per 500g.
- layoutIfNeeded 7y agoSame in Hungary. Everything has price / kg or litre shown next to the item’s price.
- icebraining 7y agoI read panpanna's post as saying that it's not common to have different units, not that there's no price per unit value next to labels.
- Moru 7y agoIt's at least law in Sweden since a while.
- benibela 7y agoI do not remember ever seeing price per 500g
- supermatt 7y agoIts unit price as required by directive 98/6/EC. A unit is how the product is customarily sold (singly) in the member state. So for items typically sold as 500g in Germany, all items of that type in Germany would be labelled with 500g as the unit size for comparison. That same product may typically be sold in the UK as 1kg, so in the UK they would use 1kg.
- Faark 7y agoAre we talking about stuff that can vary in size but isn't weighted? Like kiwi's or cucumbers have a fixed price each while apples or bananas have a kg price. But I don't remember seeing processed food without a kg price. The only time I remember having difficulty comparing was different formats of toilet paper when our usual brand was out of stock... #rolls × #sheets / pack price was a bit to much for me to do in my head. Yeah, I'm not really complaining.
- baroffoos 7y agoAt least comparing 100g to 1kg is trivial.
- divbyzer0 7y agoIt may be trivial, but it can be equally trivial for a manufacturer to to use misleading fonts or units to cause sufficient confusion to increase sales by a small margin. Every label under every product I see has the price per kg preventing such deception.
- CharlesColeman 7y ago> Grocery stores in the US do this, but it's not something you necessarily see in food service shops. They do an absolute shit job of it, because there are no standards or regulations. Most times I see this, similar items next to each other on the shelf are using different "standard" units making comparison impossible (e.g. price per ounce vs. price per piece). I've even seen two sizes of the same brand/product use different "standard" units on the grocery store price label.
- makosdv 7y agoLuckily, my local Publix that I shop at does it quite well.
- dsfyu404ed 7y agoYou're being way over dramatic. 99% of the time the unit makes sense and is the same for comparable products.
- uoaei 7y agoThat may be your experience based on what you shop for and where you do it. America is way behind Europe on this. 99% of the time I go to Safeway, I have to bring out my calculator because the reference volume/weight is different from the other items on the same shelf.
- bpodgursky 7y agoSafeway and other grocery chains all list price per ounce next to the price.
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- j_jochem 7y agoWhen I want to buy cherry tomatoes in German REWE, usually half the varieties have their unit price listed in €/100g, while the rest is in €/1kg. While metric does make converting in your head easy, I bet this still throws off a lot of the non-mathematical people and is done very much intentionally.