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My pet peeve is that price per round measurement unit (eg kilogram) is in tiny writing compared to product cost, even though they are arguably equally important
by dkjaudyeqooe 3y ago
My pet peeve is that price per round measurement unit (eg kilogram) is in tiny writing compared to product cost, even though they are arguably equally important. Given that the former is mandated, they should also mandate that they appear in equal size fonts on price labels.
- gnicholas 3y agoYeah Safeway typically shows price per unit, but Trader Joe’s (which is often thought of as a ‘friendly’ grocery) never does. I wish they did!
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- tacker2000 3y agoIn the EU its mandatory everywhere.
- f1shy 3y agoBut often not respected. Heck sometimes the price is just not there… any price!
- Terretta 3y agoSurely coincidence rather than collusion (ahem*), manufacturers sharing the same competitive shelf space mysteriously all prefer different units. * see tacit collusion: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tacit_collusion https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tacit_collusion
- milesvp 3y agothank you for this term. I’ve been struggling lately with this topic because collusion has some fairly well defined regulatory meaning, and I’ve had to quote the term collusion to avoid some argumentative pushback. I think the rise of computation and networking has allowed for collusion at levels that were impossible 30 years ago. The biggest example of algorithmic collusion brought to my attention in the last few years is a SaaS that many landlord use that all but tells them to raise rents to bring them up to “market rates”. And I’m sure this kind of thing is becoming super prevalent in all kinds of places.
- zeroonetwothree 3y agoTJs only has one version of each item so I suppose it’s not super valuable to do that.