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They do that in the EU/Germany, too €/item, €/100g, €/1kg are all common

panpanna 7y ago
In 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 ago
  Same in Hungary. Everything has price / kg or litre shown next to the item’s price.
  - icebraining 7y ago
    I 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 ago
  It's at least law in Sweden since a while.
- benibela 7y ago
  I do not remember ever seeing price per 500g
  - divbyzer0 7y ago
    Yep, every item I see is price per kg. I can't think of exceptions.
    - Reason077 7y ago
      In the UK it is typically either per 100g or per kg. Or per litre or per unit. Depends on the category of product.
- supermatt 7y ago
  Its 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 ago
    Are 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 ago
At least comparing 100g to 1kg is trivial.
- divbyzer0 7y ago
  It 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.

In 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 ago
Same in Hungary. Everything has price / kg or litre shown next to the item’s price.
- icebraining 7y ago
  I 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 ago
It's at least law in Sweden since a while.
benibela 7y ago
I do not remember ever seeing price per 500g
- divbyzer0 7y ago
  Yep, every item I see is price per kg. I can't think of exceptions.
  - Reason077 7y ago
    In the UK it is typically either per 100g or per kg. Or per litre or per unit. Depends on the category of product.
supermatt 7y ago
Its 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 ago
  Are 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 ago

At least comparing 100g to 1kg is trivial.

divbyzer0 7y ago
It 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.