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

Fri, 27 Jun 2008 23:39:48 GMT from Lou <lpogoda@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>:
> There was an assortment of sizes that were aerosol cans, and the
> unit price was given per ounce. ... The unit price for the pump
> sprayer was given in pounds. Again, easy enough to figure out what
> was the most economical pump sprayer. But impossible to tell if the
> pressurized can or the pump spray was the most better buy.

Well, if you know the best pump sprayer's unit price and the best 
aerosol's unit price, multiply the latter by 16 and compare to the 
former to find which is "most better". While I agree with you that it 
would be better if both were in ounces, it's hardly "impossible" to 
compare them, just less convenient.

> Up to that point, I had thought that the point of unit pricing was
> to make that comparison possible - after all, what I was buying was
> furniture polish, and it was the same product in each container.

They may or may not have been the same product. Something formulated 
to be dispensed through a pump may have different viscosity from 
something formulated for an aerosol spray.

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