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The price per unit in US groceries is ridiculous. You will literally have 3 packages of soda all of the same size listing the price per unit in completely diff

The price per unit in US groceries is ridiculous. You will literally have 3 packages of soda all of the same size listing the price per unit in completely different units. Some in ml, some in oz, some in pts.

thfuran 3y ago
We don't even have standardization on the nutrition labels. The serving size is different for everything.
- cobbzilla 3y ago
  I had a bag of salad croutons that measured a serving as “2 Tablespoons” — are they expecting me to crush the croutons to measure a serving? Or just “eyeball” it to convert rectangular things into hemispherical things?
- hansvm 3y ago
  It's worse than that. The serving size changes the resulting label. A lot of the high-protein breads have the same composition and are sliced slightly thicker to hit the 3.5g mark so they can round up to 4g per slice and appear to be more protein rich in composition.
  - thfuran 3y ago
    I've seen oil with zero calories and over 1,500 servings per container.
flaviut 3y ago
I've made a userscript for this! https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/429539-unit-prices-on-kroger-com https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/429539-unit-prices-on-krog... Kroger doesn't publish unit prices on their websites, but they do publish quantities. They'll sometimes mix the units up (L, floz, see mapUnit() https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/429539-unit-prices-on-kroger-com/code https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/429539-unit-prices-on-krog...), but generally they're OK. The script will normalize everything to a specific metric unit & present a unit price on the page. Why stores have this horrible setup? Probably weaponized incompetence. Would be nice to have the FTC step in with some regulation.
nebula8804 3y ago
Just be happy they haven't switched over to butts (yet): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Butt_(unit) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Butt_(unit) Maybe we'll be going back to hogsheads (or more likely a rundlet) though: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hogshead https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hogshead

thfuran 3y ago

We don't even have standardization on the nutrition labels. The serving size is different for everything.

cobbzilla 3y ago
I had a bag of salad croutons that measured a serving as “2 Tablespoons” — are they expecting me to crush the croutons to measure a serving? Or just “eyeball” it to convert rectangular things into hemispherical things?
hansvm 3y ago
It's worse than that. The serving size changes the resulting label. A lot of the high-protein breads have the same composition and are sliced slightly thicker to hit the 3.5g mark so they can round up to 4g per slice and appear to be more protein rich in composition.
- thfuran 3y ago
  I've seen oil with zero calories and over 1,500 servings per container.

flaviut 3y ago

I've made a userscript for this! https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/429539-unit-prices-on-kroger-com https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/429539-unit-prices-on-krog... Kroger doesn't publish unit prices on their websites, but they do publish quantities. They'll sometimes mix the units up (L, floz, see mapUnit() https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/429539-unit-prices-on-kroger-com/code https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/429539-unit-prices-on-krog...), but generally they're OK. The script will normalize everything to a specific metric unit & present a unit price on the page. Why stores have this horrible setup? Probably weaponized incompetence. Would be nice to have the FTC step in with some regulation.

nebula8804 3y ago

Just be happy they haven't switched over to butts (yet): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Butt_(unit) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Butt_(unit) Maybe we'll be going back to hogsheads (or more likely a rundlet) though: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hogshead https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hogshead