Mildly Infuriating

Walmart unit price is completely broken in general. They also have glitches in the "did you forget to add?" page where it will show an item as a sale price, but when you add it, you'll see total price increase by sale price, and a few seconds later, a second price increase to the normal price. Re-checking the cart will show the item as not on sale. There are some other real weird glitches with that e-commerce platform. A rat's nest of bugs that might not be intentionally nefarious, but also could be.

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

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

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

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

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

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

always. practicing basic division is also good brain excersise.

This seems to be the confusing product: https://www.walmart.ca/en/ip/Kraft-Smooth-Light-Peanut-Butter/10298330?from=/search

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.)

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.

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