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The per 100g price makes it seem like the 1kg (bottom) item is cheaper than the 2kg one.

I wonder how many people are baited into getting the more expensive item (by weight).

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 hours ago

Especially in a physical store, I see it all too often

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

....these are not comparable products. One is PB, the other is Lite PB.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 hours ago

I think you missed the point. If they were both the same size jar (2kg or 1kg, it doesn't matter), then there may be a difference in price between regular and lite.

But the 1k jar is listed as being less expensive per 100g, and that's flat out wrong when you do the math.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

Over here, peanut butter is an EXTREMELY costly delicacy. To have a store sell it in 2kg portions for less than 10usd looks like a dream to me.

You people need to better appreciate what you have

[–] [email protected] 5 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

It's great value peanut butter. It is easier to clarify that as a semi solid oil than actual peanut butter. Feel free to be jealous but that's not 'good' peanut butter. It's better than nothing but only just.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Oh don't worry, I am sure that whatever we get sent down here for exports is of inferior quality than your worst quality product

But feel free to expose how no one has it worst than you guys as an excuse to complain

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 hours ago

C'mon man. I gotta agree here, that stuff tastes pretty... Well, you won't feel good later.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

“Great value” is like “all natural:” a totally meaningless phrase that signals nothing except that someone’s selling you something.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Great value is like "kraft". It's the brand name. The store brand in this case.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 20 hours ago

Yep I can see that. I just find it fatuous.

[–] [email protected] 85 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

the per 100g price on the bottom is incorrect. they are 70 cents per 100g... or I'm too high. choosing by weight is literally the frugal method.

edit: try living out of a vending machine - if you only have a dollar, you should buy the item with most weight and presumably most calories

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Surprise, the heaviest $1 item was a 1500 g bottle of still water...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 19 hours ago

Well the second heaviest then

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago

There bottom one is 60 cents per 100 g. Top left it says 2 for 12$. It may be that the weight didn't register correctly, as it says '1' instead of '1kg' or because some other conflict.

[–] LemoineFairclough 1 points 19 hours ago
[–] [email protected] 45 points 1 day ago (3 children)

What happened there? These are presumably calculated automatically, so does the second item has its mass listed as 2kg?

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

What happened? We live in corporate dictatorships where oligarchs can false advertise, price gouge, kick your dog, and fuck your wife... and your only recourse is a class action lawsuit where you make a few bucks after a decade.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Damn, I didn't know things were so bad there in Canada.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

The same dystopian enshittification is going on pretty much everywhere, you just aren't aware of it yet.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I’ve been noticing bad math in the Uber driver app lately.

There have been a few times it tells me my ETA is 12 minutes but I’m 16 miles away. Like I know it doesn’t think I’m gonna be doing these residential streets at 90 mph

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 day ago

Afaik that's deliberate to force the driver to get to the destination asap at all costs, but also to lie to the customer that their ride is just a few minutes away so there's no need to cancel or look for alternatives.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Even in the detailed info? If so that's weird; probably something along the lines of "the seller messed up the weight, fixed it, but for some insane reason the site doesn't recalculate the price".

[–] stevedice 4 points 16 hours ago

My guess is that there's some funky spaghetti code that's using the promo, which is for 2 kg, as the weight of the product on the calculations.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

Price per 100g should not change.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Second is scam by 2 for 12$ but 35c(lol?) per 100g. = 3,50 per 1kg = 7 for 2kg.. So 6.97 for 1 kg by 35ct per 100g. Wtf?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

always. practicing basic division is also good brain excersise.

[–] ZombiFrancis 21 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Only if it is a 2 pack of 1kg containers. I know costco does that often so I imagine walmart might too. (And if that 2-for-12 runs you a total of 4 kg.)

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Top one is 2kg (single unit) and the bottom is sold as a 1 kg single unit, or 2 / $12 (2 x 1kg), which is STILL not a better value than the top one! LOL

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It very well could be typical corporate fuckery, but that makes me wonder if it's actually a bug and that it's computing the per kg price based on the single until price but dividing by the total weight of the pack.

Or perhaps it's a "bug" that's left intentionally until called out.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

If it's a "bug" that they are actively profiting from, likely for years, it's probably a feature! LOL

[–] southsamurai 16 points 1 day ago (2 children)

That's why I stopped shopping by listed price a long time ago. My punk ass was poor, as in below poverty line several times while still working. Had to learn that lesson quick lol.

Once I learned that the per weight pricing was a more useful metric, I carried a calculator any time I shopped. Ain't no reason to pay more for products that are functionally the same.

Now, I'm not saying that any given brand is worth the savings per weight. Some store brands suck, and do so hard enough that even though they cost less, they're a waste. The products do need to be in line with needs as a primary factor.

Peanut butter in specific, there's a chain here that it is so thick and gritty, you'd think it was a stripper. You take a taste and the only way you'd want it again is if it were twerking on a pole. So, even though name brands cost more, if it comes down to having to eat that crap or do without, I'm doing without.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

I love thinking about peanut butter being a stripper, thank you.

[–] AwesomeLowlander 28 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The issue here is that the per weight pricing listed is half of what it should be.

[–] southsamurai 6 points 1 day ago

Ahhh, gotcha. It wasn't evident without paying attention more than I would have considered necessary given the title. Thanks for the correction

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I have to admit, it took me a while to realize the bottom one was only 1kg. And all the numbers would "confirm" that they are both 2kg

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[–] Imgonnatrythis 7 points 1 day ago (2 children)

How are you going to pass on one called great value? Would be like buying something that doesn't have the word best in it when another product does. I'm not dumb.

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