Re: Target unit pricing - Here's the real point

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sarge137 wrote in part:

>On Jun 27, 1:02 am, Jack Bauer <j...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>> the zak wrote:
>> > Target unit pricing shelf labels for paper goods like paper
>> > towels and toilet tissue list the unit price per 100 sheets
>> > instead of per 100 square feet as do other stores.
>> > It's inaccurate. Sheet sizes vary. Converting unit pricing
>> > from per 100 sheets to per 100 square feet is difficult
>> > to do in the aisle of the Target store.
>>
>> I have been in several different stores trying to figure out the unit
>> pricing on bottled water.  They will have all different sizes and
>> brands, but in the end they are all just bottles containing water,
>> right?  But the unit pricing is by the each, liter, ounce, you name it!
>>   Whatever units they can come up with to make it all more confusing.
>> You can't compare.
>
>Interesting.  We shop at two different stores on a regular basis.  A
>Kroger chain store and a military commissary. In both cases every
>beverage (water, soft drinks, fruit juice, etc) they sell is unit
>priced per ounce, regardless of the packaging or volume of the
>package.  In fact, I don't remember ever seeing a unit price shelf
>label that wasn't expressed per pound or ounce so long as the label on
>the product is expressed in those terms (which is pretty much
>everything on their shelves).

  I have seen the supermarket nearest my day job have all the unit prices 
for all sizes and versions of one brand of dish detergent with unit 
pricing per ounce, and all unit prices for all sizes and versions of 
another brand unit priced per quart.

  I buy my dish detergent elsewhere.  I don't even know if that 
supermarket changed to all dish detergent unit prices being on the same 
unit within the past 5-6 years or not.  However, several hundred people 
living within 3 blocks of this place are elderly or disbled or both along 
with not having cars, and I wonder what percentage of such low mobility 
people can multiply or divide by 32 in their heads.
  Many college students who live within walking distance of that 
supermarket 8-9 months a year also don't have cars, and I suspect many of 
those also can't multiply or divide by 32 in their heads.
  (Thankfully I can well enough very proficiently and quickly 
multiply/divide in my head all numbers that are "pretty much the powers 
of the 6th root of 2 and 20th root of 10" - "the 1/6 octave numbers" - 
which include pi and the square root of 2.)

  This sort of BS is one of the reasons why people demand politicians 
passing laws telling business operators how to run their businesses.  If
businesses (more like the notably verminous subset thereof; there are 
plenty of upright and benevolent businesses) did better at playing fair 
and doing the right thing, then some lawyers would have to find other 
lines of work and the news media would need to become a little less like 
vermin than they are now in order to justify their (now very necessary) 
existence on serving public good.

 - Don Klipstein (don@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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