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I ran into this today when buying TP. I actually just wrote about it. http://stfudamnit.com/2013/05/04/poverty-toilet-paper-and-the-spiral-of-why-poor-people-a
by johnpowell 13y ago
I ran into this today when buying TP. I actually just wrote about it.
http://stfudamnit.com/2013/05/04/poverty-toilet-paper-and-the-spiral-of-why-poor-people-are-fucked/ http://stfudamnit.com/2013/05/04/poverty-toilet-paper-and-th...
- vacri 13y agoIt's hard for people to make the comparisons between brands, sizes, so on and so forth. Australia recently passed legislation requiring supermarkets to list the price-per-unit-weight/volume alongside the product price. So on a food item, you'll see the price for the product, and also the price per 100 grams. It means things are directly comparable across brands and sizes ("how does this 117g portion compare to this 270g one?"). It's a fantastic bit of legislation.
- johnpowell 13y agoWe have had this in the USA for as long as I have bought food. Next to the price on something like a pizza they note the price per ounce.
- nitrogen 13y agoSometimes, though, you'll see one item's unit price in units of $/ea, while its competing item is in something like $/1000.
- kbenson 13y agoI'm not sure it's a law though (I doubt it, at least it's not federal, as it's not in all stores). I imagine it could just as easily have been market pressure, as the supermarkets began to offer their own brands of products for cheaper than premium, it made sense to offer direct comparisons with as much information as possible.
- johnpowell 13y agoThat sounds right too. I'm not sure if it mandated or convention.
- dwiel 13y agoI think its just convention in the US. They dont have per weight prices at the coop grocery I go to.
- rquantz 13y agoIt appears to be state regulated. I'd imagine that different types of stores are regulated different ways (e.g., coop vs. supermarket). http://www.extension.org/pages/45117/is-unit-pricing-mandatory-in-large-us-grocery-stores http://www.extension.org/pages/45117/is-unit-pricing-mandato...
- eru 13y agoBritain also has this kind of legislation. But e.g. Tesco often tries to play around it, by listing, say, different kinds of apples sometimes by piece, sometimes by kg.