Stan Brown wrote:
Wed, 25 Jun 2008 20:49:58 -0700 (PDT) from the zak
:
Target unit pricing shelf labels for paper goods like paper
towels and toilet tissue list the unit price per 100 sheets
instead of per 100 square feet as do other stores.
It's inaccurate. Sheet sizes vary. Converting unit pricing
from per 100 sheets to per 100 square feet is difficult
to do in the aisle of the Target store.

But think about when you use them -- you don't tear off X square feet
of paper towel, you tear off one (or two). To me it makes sense to
compute unit price per towel because that's price per use.

Someone else said "don't use paper, use cloth". I agree in principle,
but in 40+ years I've never found a cloth towel that does anywhere
near as good a job of drying as paper. I'm willing to try something
new if it really works. Anyone have any practical suggestions?

Use cloth when you can, but paper when you can't.

For example, cloth to clean up paint or motor oil drips is probably not
a reasonable use of cloth. Paper to dry your hands is not a good use of
paper.

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Evelyn C. Leeper
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only rearranging their prejudices. -William James