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Germany used to have that legislation, removed in 2009. Legal packaging sizes were e.g. 100g, 250g, 500g, 750g, 1000g. Removed because it was, unsurprisingly,

• eru 3y ago
  They still have legislation that you have to prominently display the 'Euro per 100g' price? I consider that good enough, and packaging size should be left to the customer. (The old rule had lots of exceptions and loophole anyway. I remember that fresh yeast almost always came in little cubes of something like 42g, because that's a convenient amount for baking. And no one had any problems with that. Do you really want bureaucrats or politicians to decide on arguments about what odd sizes are convenient enough to warrant granting such exceptions?) However, I do remember shopping in Britain, where Tesco would give you the mandated unit price for one kind of apple per piece and the next box over with a different variety of apple would give you the unit price per kg. British supermarkets were a bit customer hostile like that. (I noticed them get a lot better when Aldi and Lidl really took hold in the UK. Especially those confusing '5-for-3' deals etc got much rarer.)