Tax on stupid? ;)
Tax on stupid or tax on lazy for sure describes this!
You can string this topic way out. Retail vs online for example. Occasionally there are some great deals on stuff via eBay for example.
Fair point. The intent of the thread is in your face stupidity i.e. same store, same product, ideally right next to each other.
My favorite is at the sex shop where I work part-time, we have a "deal" on "After Sex Mints", 4 for $1, regularly 25c ea!
The savings is unreal, but it does get people to get 4 of them, which is nice because we work on metrics and we're always trying to get more units per transaction.
That is very amusing since it is such a simple one to figure out. Perhaps once a month break out a "super sale" on the mints, "7 mints for $2.00 this week only!!!" Marketing is fascinating.
This would often cause the poor teenager behind the counter to go into a period of self doubt and I could see the pain on their face as they tried to reconcile the difference between what they thought to be true and truth.
You would think they would be the first ones to figure it out since it is literally staring them in front of their face the entire work day!
My contribution for today:
Only partial credit for me since a sale item...
Location: Schnucks (grocery store)
25 lb bag of sugar for $18.49 ($0.7396 / lb)
10 lb bag of sugar for $6.25 ($0.625 / lb)
It is always amusing seeing these at the grocery store since they tell you the unit price directly on the price tag. I wonder if the employees get a good chuckle when putting out these signs.
Furthermore...who buys a 25 lb bag of sugar! I am the only person I know who would consider it since I bake just about every other week, but that is far to inconvenient of a size for me to justify the normal price difference of $0.0194 / lb.