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I'm a little obsessive about the unit cost of everyday items and in addition to them using inconsistent units, it's not uncommon for it to be wrong. A few days

I'm a little obsessive about the unit cost of everyday items and in addition to them using inconsistent units, it's not uncommon for it to be wrong. A few days ago I was in a CVS and a 4.25 oz box of candy was $1.99 and listed with a per oz cost of 39.8 cents. Either the price had gone up or through shrinkflation the size went from 5 oz to 4.25 oz and the unit cost was not recalculated. I see it too regularly to be able to trust that number on the tag.

neilv 2y ago
Oh yeah, I notice outright wrong ones, too. In partial defense of the retailer, sometimes those seem to be due to the product being miscoded in their database (e.g., involving bundles of multiple retail packages, or maybe just the occasional typo of info that's not caught). Which could be accidental (rather than some of the other obfuscation, which is glaring and pervasive enough to seem intentional). But even when accidental, it gives the impression that they don't care that the information they're displaying authoritatively is outright wrong (or they would find a way not to do it so often).