• Thorny_Insight@lemm.ee
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    5 months ago

    I always look at the price/kg. Makes no difference what size the packaging is, that price will always tell which one is the cheapest.

    • viralJ@lemmy.world
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      5 months ago

      Me too, but there is one UK retailer (Co-operative) that makes it hard for you. They will have, say, a punnet of strawberries with 200g strawberries in it for £3.50 and another one with 300g for £4.50. The labels will say “unit price: £3.50/unit” or “£4.50/unit”. (No, really?) So you have to do your own maths. Luckily other markets are sensible enough to actually provide price per weight. And in Tesco, when a given product is cheaper for clubcard holders, it will even give price per weight twice, for both normal price and clubcard price.

      Btw. I don’t work for Tesco. I just needed to vent about Co-op being dicks; Tesco just serves as a good counter example of how this should be done, in case any Co-op executive is reading this.

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      5 months ago

      You don’t necessarily always check for something you’re used to buying, so the shrinking may go unnoticed for a while.

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      5 months ago

      Package price can still matter depending on how much you need of a product. Buying 10kg of rice when you need 500g is going to be more expensive than buying a smaller bag. Even if the price/kg is higher.

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      5 months ago

      I do that all the time too, is especially good when I’m shopping for snacks like biscuits, of course I have to factor in calories but that part isn’t going well