Submitted 1 week ago by Showroom7561@lemmy.ca to mildlyinfuriating@lemmy.world
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The per 100g price makes it seem like the 1kg (bottom) item is cheaper than the 2kg one.
I wonder how many people are baited into getting the more expensive item (by weight).
What happened there? These are presumably calculated automatically, so does the second item has its mass listed as 2kg?
What happened? We live in corporate dictatorships where corporations can false advertise, price gouge, kick your dog, and fuck your wife… and your only recourse is a class action lawsuit where you make a few bucks after a decade.
Damn, I didn’t know things were so bad there in Canada.
I’ve been noticing bad math in the Uber driver app lately.
There have been a few times it tells me my ETA is 12 minutes but I’m 16 miles away. Like I know it doesn’t think I’m gonna be doing these residential streets at 90 mph
Afaik that’s deliberate to force the driver to get to the destination asap at all costs, but also to lie to the customer that their ride is just a few minutes away so there’s no need to cancel or look for alternatives.
Second item is 1KG.
Price per 100g should not change.
Even in the detailed info? If so that’s weird; probably something along the lines of “the seller messed up the weight, fixed it, but for some insane reason the site doesn’t recalculate the price”.
Second is scam by 2 for 12$, 35c per 100g. = 3,50 per 1kg = 7 for 2kg… So 6.97 for 1 kg by 35ct per 100g. Wtf?
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.)
Top one is 2kg (single unit) and the bottom is sold as a 1 kg single unit, or 2 / $12 (2 x 1kg), which is STILL not a better value than the top one! LOL
It very well could be typical corporate fuckery, but that makes me wonder if it’s actually a bug and that it’s computing the per kg price based on the single until price but dividing by the total weight of the pack.
Or perhaps it’s a “bug” that’s left intentionally until called out.
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.
The issue here is that the per weight pricing listed is half of what it should be.
Ahhh, gotcha. It wasn’t evident without paying attention more than I would have considered necessary given the title. Thanks for the correction
I love thinking about peanut butter being a stripper, thank you.
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
It took me a while also. It all make sense if the price by weight is calculated when 2 are bought. Also, a comment about 4kg need not be.
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
It’s great value peanut butter. It is easier to clarify that as a semi solid oil than actual peanut butter. Feel free to be jealous but that’s not ‘good’ peanut butter. It’s better than nothing but only just.
Oh don’t worry, I am sure that whatever we get sent down here for exports is of inferior quality than your worst quality product
But feel free to expose how no one has it worst than you guys as an excuse to complain
www.walmart.ca/en/ip/…/6000197838147
It’s palm oil with some peanuts.
“Great value” is like “all natural:” a totally meaningless phrase that signals nothing except that someone’s selling you something.
Great value is like “kraft”. It’s the brand name. The store brand in this case.
Yep I can see that. I just find it fatuous.
How are you going to pass on one called great value? Would be like buying something that doesn’t have the word best in it when another product does. I’m not dumb.
Not sure if you’re Canadian, but we have a brand called “President’s Choice”… oh god.
As an American the last thing I’d ever be buying is something that’s “presidents choice”
I’m stuck trying to figure out how many linear feet there are per gram.
Ah fuck, I’ve forgotten how to do basic math
I’d imagine not many. I don’t know anyone who says “I need (x of weight) worth of peanut butter!” And then uses the weight as the measurement.
Everyone I know says “I need peanut butter. Oh, $6.97 is less than $8.27” and never checks the weight.
If you’re shopping by weight, you’re probably not getting either of these. You’re getting those massive jars that are like 15lbs, and come in almost mini barrels.
Also, unrelated, but WHY are you getting creamy when EXTRA CRUNCHY exists?
I don’t know anyone who says “I need (x of weight) worth of peanut butter!” And then uses the weight as the measurement.
This isnt what that price is for.
Say I’m buying ketchup. Bottle A is 725ml and costs $5. Bottle B is 967ml and costs $6. Giving you the cost / mL tells you which one is actually cheaper, not which one costs less.
If you’re shopping by weight, you’re probably not getting either of these. You’re getting those massive jars that are like 15lbs, and come in almost mini barrels.
I tend to buy the max size that my family can reasonably eat before the item goes bad. 2kg is the largest size at this store, but I think anything larger would just be impractical, and I KNOW FOR 10000% FACT that my wife would just drop something heavier on the ground. LOL
Also, unrelated, but WHY are you getting creamy when EXTRA CRUNCHY exists?
I was looking for 100% peanuts in the crunchy variety!
I tend to buy the max size that my family can reasonably eat before the item goes bad
Does peanut butter even go bad? I’ve never seen moldy peanut butter…
When it come to peanut butter I only get the small jars. I have a rule that once the knife touches the bread it doesn’t go back into the jar, my wife doesn’t follow this rule so we would end up with a jar the size of my head just sitting there becaused it’s filled with old bread bits and no one would buy more because “we already have some”.
The great value peanut butter has a weird taste, in my opinion. it’s worth a few bucks more to get something that tastes better.
But that’s no excuse for the wrong per 100g price listed, is it?
Rule #1: Never buy great value.
I was actually looking for 100% peanut butter, but this discrepancy caught my eye, and it really bothered me because I almost always ignore the product price and compare items by unit price. Now I’m second guessing everything they list!
You should shop by ingrediends and ecological reasons. That’s sadly not represented by $/g
What? How can my comment possibly be voted down?
While you’re not wrong that people should probably shop that way, if they can. It feels tone deaf, as many people can barely afford groceries in the first place, so shopping by cost per weight/calorie is almost a requirement.
At least I think that’s what’s happening.
You’re buying from the store? Don’t you know terrible for your health and the environment? You should grow your own in your greenhouse. Jeez. Some people.
Yes. Because we live in a setting of specialists.
I am no specialist in efficiently growing healthy food. So if I try it, it will be objectively worse than if someone else does it for me. And if that one is worse in doing something I am better we both are off worse and everything overall. So if we both would do things we are good at the resulting product/service would be better, it would be more efficient (time, ressources, waste), which benefits all participant and the environment at the same time.
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.
What a happy accident if prices go up before actually buying and paying
Oh man, I’ve had their online cart show me a total amount “saved” that makes absolutely no sense.
It’s crazy that one of the largest retailers on the planet is so incapable of having a working online ordering system.
Especially in a physical store, I see it all too often
…these are not comparable products. One is PB, the other is Lite PB.
I think you missed the point. If they were both the same size jar (2kg or 1kg, it doesn’t matter), then there may be a difference in price between regular and lite.
But the 1k jar is listed as being less expensive per 100g, and that’s flat out wrong when you do the math.
This seems to be the confusing product: www.walmart.ca/en/ip/…/10298330?from=/search
They did. It’s intentional.
unemployedclaquer@sopuli.xyz 1 week ago
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.
pirat@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Surprise, the heaviest $1 item was a 1500 g bottle of still water…
Shardikprime@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Well the second heaviest then
Akasazh@feddit.nl 1 week ago
There bottom one is 60 cents per 100 g. Top left it says 2 for 12$. It may be that the weight didn’t register correctly, as it says ‘1’ instead of ‘1kg’ or because some other conflict.