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In Australia, supermarkets display the unit normalised price on the shelf tag (they do this to highlight the value of their own brand of items). Eg https://img
by ninjinxo 5y ago
In Australia, supermarkets display the unit normalised price on the shelf tag (they do this to highlight the value of their own brand of items).
Eg https://imgur.com/a/fjrIECU https://imgur.com/a/fjrIECU
- skohan 5y agoThis is also true in Germany, they always display the cost/kg
- twiddling 5y agocommon in the US as well
- athenot 5y agoHowever in US, units themselves are not normalized. Some things are per $/oz, others per $/lb, or $/unit, sill others within a same category go by volume ($/floz, $/qt, $/gal...). It makes comparison a pain: I end up looking at the metric unit on the packaging and doing the mental calculation myself.
- TonyTrapp 5y agoEven in Germany it may vary between €/kg and €/100g for the same type of product. But at least that's easy to convert (just append/remove a 0) compared to switching between imperial units.
- e12e 5y agoI believe it's mandated in the EU/EEC?
- TonyTrapp 5y agoYeah, they have to do that here as well, and I'm sure without that requirement it wouldn't have been possible to lift the restrictions on packaging sizes. While you could argue that it's still all transparent and everything, I'd say it leads to the wrong incentives: Trying to sell all types of cereal for the same price now implies that one package of cereal might last for 5 days, but another one just for 3 days (just becauses it contains pricier ingredients). I personally find that rather annoying, and it applies to other types of food as well.