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* (grocery store puzzle) ---- "Buy in bulk for a better price ..."henh...@gmail.com
`* Re: (grocery store puzzle) ---- "Buy in bulk for a better price ..."Richard Tobin
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 by: henh...@gmail.com - Sat, 6 Aug 2022 17:23 UTC

the (grocery store puzzle) that i often enjoy is....

seeing (e.g.) a 10 oz bag of a product for $1.50 or $1.60
and a 30 oz bag of the same product for $5.00 ...

(the piles are right next to each other)

-------- same brand, same expiration date, ........

>>> "Eric Sosman" wrote in message ......
>>>
>>> Some years ago, my mother reported (with glee) seeing a hand-
>>> lettered sign in the local supermarket's produce department:
>>>
>>> AVOCARDOS ------- 99¢

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 by: Richard Tobin - Sat, 6 Aug 2022 18:59 UTC

In article <20cccd0d-5fe5-454c-b77f-130aaedf7722n@googlegroups.com>,
henh...@gmail.com <henhanna@gmail.com> wrote:

>seeing (e.g.) a 10 oz bag of a product for $1.50 or $1.60
>and a 30 oz bag of the same product for $5.00 .

In my local Sainsbury's a few years ago:

https://www.cogsci.ed.ac.uk/~richard/cornflakes.jpg

-- Richard

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 by: Richard Heathfield - Sat, 6 Aug 2022 20:10 UTC

On 06/08/2022 7:59 pm, Richard Tobin wrote:
> In article <20cccd0d-5fe5-454c-b77f-130aaedf7722n@googlegroups.com>,
> henh...@gmail.com <henhanna@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> seeing (e.g.) a 10 oz bag of a product for $1.50 or $1.60
>> and a 30 oz bag of the same product for $5.00 .
>
> In my local Sainsbury's a few years ago:
>
> https://www.cogsci.ed.ac.uk/~richard/cornflakes.jpg

Oops.

As they say on Twitter, "you had *one* job..."

--
Richard Heathfield
Email: rjh at cpax dot org dot uk
"Usenet is a strange place" - dmr 29 July 1999
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 by: Edward Murphy - Sun, 7 Aug 2022 22:16 UTC

On 8/6/2022 1:10 PM, Richard Heathfield wrote:

> On 06/08/2022 7:59 pm, Richard Tobin wrote:
>> In article <20cccd0d-5fe5-454c-b77f-130aaedf7722n@googlegroups.com>,
>> henh...@gmail.com <henhanna@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> seeing (e.g.)  a 10 oz  bag of a product for  $1.50  or $1.60
>>> and a   30 oz  bag of the same product for  $5.00  .
>>
>> In my local Sainsbury's a few years ago:
>>
>> https://www.cogsci.ed.ac.uk/~richard/cornflakes.jpg
>
> Oops.
>
> As they say on Twitter, "you had *one* job..."

No one said it was better for the /buyer/.

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 by: henh...@gmail.com - Mon, 8 Aug 2022 23:22 UTC

On Saturday, August 6, 2022 at 12:00:03 PM UTC-7, Richard Tobin wrote:
> In article <20cccd0d-5fe5-454c...@googlegroups.com>,
> henh...@gmail.com <henh...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> >seeing (e.g.) a 10 oz bag of a product for $1.50 or $1.60
> >and a 30 oz bag of the same product for $5.00 .

> In my local Sainsbury's a few years ago:
>
> https://www.cogsci.ed.ac.uk/~richard/cornflakes.jpg
>
> -- Richard

Thanks! i think i've seen that kind of a (grocery store) sign also....

also this kind: http://www.cogsci.ed.ac.uk/~richard/access.jpg

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