On Sun, 24 May 2009 18:11:31 -0600, robert bowman
wrote:

Karsten Kruse wrote:

Btw, everything sold in germany needs also a per kg or per liter price
on the price label. Imagine you buy 250g of coffee for 3 euros, then the
per kg price would say 12 euros. So people can easily compare prices of
all coffees, no matter what size the package has, without a calculator.

That is often done in US supermarkets, although there is great creativity
about what unit of measurement to use. For instance, of two comparable
products, one may be cents per pound, the other cents per ounce. At times I
think the metric system failed to be adopted by the US because retailers
didn't want people to be able to merely move decimal points around.

My favorite comes from the era where a '3 pound' can of coffee suddenly
became a 34 ounce can of coffee and one firm claimed 34 ounces of their
product would make as many cups as 48 ounces of a competitors'.

Recently, I've noticed the 6 or 6.5 ounce can of tuna has become a 7 ounce
can at a higher price as a reverse on the usual scheme. I won't comment on
the probable species actually in the can.
There was an interesting procedure in the cafeteria at work, every
time they wanted to raise prices, they would change from "tax
included" to "plus tax" or vice versa. In the twelve years I was
there, lunch went from never more than $3.00 to never less than $6.00
Gerry :-)}
London, Canada