I get it’s to shame the brands. But do the French not have unit prices? That’s how I determine the better prices among different brands regardless of package size.
Unit prices shows you the cost per g or ml. This would show changes to historical pricing that you may not notice otherwise.
A product could still be cheapest per unit or in the middle but the increase wasn’t noticed as they changed the packaging and volume of the product. Strange sizes also make comparison difficult without the actual ticket.
You mean if they display price per gram/kg/oz/ml etc?
It’s irrelevant whether they do or not, that’s not the point. They are comparing the price against the same product before , not against other similar products from other brands. It doesn’t matter if Lipton Iced Tea is the cheapes iced tea brand per litre, it matters that they reduced the product size compared to what they used to
Unit prices are easy to remember when you buy a single product. I bet you know the price of gas per unit immediately. What was the price of Pepsi per liter today? What was the price of Coke per liter? There are dozens and dozens of soda products alone you would have to memorize. And that’s just soda.
I applaud a store using its data to communicate to customers how prices have changed. We should do this everywhere.
They’ll probably only do it to pull a stunt like this to improve their negotiating power like they are here, because if they left it up all the time it would discourage sales.
That method is very useful but it wouldn’t help you notice if every single company making a specific kind of product increased their prices the same amount (or reduced quantity)
I get it’s to shame the brands. But do the French not have unit prices? That’s how I determine the better prices among different brands regardless of package size.
Unit prices shows you the cost per g or ml. This would show changes to historical pricing that you may not notice otherwise.
A product could still be cheapest per unit or in the middle but the increase wasn’t noticed as they changed the packaging and volume of the product. Strange sizes also make comparison difficult without the actual ticket.
Why not both? This just makes it easier to notice at a glance. We should celebrate whatever wins we can get as consumers.
You mean if they display price per gram/kg/oz/ml etc? It’s irrelevant whether they do or not, that’s not the point. They are comparing the price against the same product before , not against other similar products from other brands. It doesn’t matter if Lipton Iced Tea is the cheapes iced tea brand per litre, it matters that they reduced the product size compared to what they used to
Unit prices are easy to remember when you buy a single product. I bet you know the price of gas per unit immediately. What was the price of Pepsi per liter today? What was the price of Coke per liter? There are dozens and dozens of soda products alone you would have to memorize. And that’s just soda.
I applaud a store using its data to communicate to customers how prices have changed. We should do this everywhere.
They’ll probably only do it to pull a stunt like this to improve their negotiating power like they are here, because if they left it up all the time it would discourage sales.
That method is very useful but it wouldn’t help you notice if every single company making a specific kind of product increased their prices the same amount (or reduced quantity)
They do, but the shelf price is the most prominent, given that this is what you’ll pay at the counter.