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Are you being ripped off? Good luck! (media.piefed.world)
submitted 11 months ago by to c/whitepeopletwitter@sh.itjust.works
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[–] 29 points 11 months ago (11 children)

yknow what’s great? unit pricing laws

tldr: in australia businesses must display “unit price” on labels: price per 100g, per 100ml, per sheet, etc for every product so that packages are comparable

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  • [–] 2 points 11 months ago

    There’s some brands that cheat this in Australia.

    They have “select a size” or something, where they have smaller length sheets. So you get a bigger number of them and it shows a lower price/100 sheets.

    Only ever seen the small length ones on the shelves, but I haven’t looked that hard though tbh.

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  • [–] 2 points 11 months ago* (4 children)

    We have this in the US for most things too, at least in Ohio where I'm from, not sure about other states or if it's a federal thing. I'm not an expert on the law of it, but I can't think off the top of my head anything that doesn't have it.

    I believe paper towels and TP are $ per square foot or smth like that

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  • [–] 3 points 11 months ago (3 children)

    Square foot isn't a great estimate for toilet paper, because within certain limits no one cares about the width of their TP. This means manufacturers will enshittify their products by making the rolls slightly wider (but fewer sheets). The packaging makes it seem like they're selling the same amount, but you suddenly find yourself needing to buy more.

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  • [–] 2 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    It's better than having no measurement at all. I agree it'd be better to rate it with a measurement actually relevant to its use, but the main thing is at least we have it and thusly can improve it if we pressure whoever regulates it enough.

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