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

In message <g423ig$b8i$1@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>, Jack Bauer
<jb@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

>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.
>
>And the WHOLE POINT of unit pricing, as they told us back in the 70's, 
>is that it SHOULD NOT take a college grad with a slide rule or 
>calculator to figure this stuff out.  You should be able to look at all 
>the similar products and quickly figure out which is cheapest based on 
>the unit pricing shown on the labels.
>
>But you can't.  So who do we contact to enforce the unit pricing laws?

You contact the store manager and tell him you won't be shopping at
his store anymore. Be sure to tell him why, and that you'll be doing
all your future shopping at <name of competitor> who DOES have
easy-to-understand unit pricing labels on his shelves.

That's the only way to change things. As long as everyone continues to
spend their money at stores like these, they have no incentive to
change anything abut the way they do business.