It's topic of debate in the household Buying larger quantities is cheaper but only if it lasts as long as smaller amounts bought over a longer time frame. I also prefer buying the good stuff and making it last. I've been nursing a bar of nice dark chocolate since mid February.
Bigger isn't necessarily cheaper. Today I was seeking out 'Roundup' before the H&S police ban it. Apparently Homebase has already been removing it from the shelves, but that's another story. I found 'normal' roundup at about £27 for roughly 500ml, and Ultra at £15 for roughly 250 ml. On the face of it the 500ml has a lower unit price. However when you discover that the Ultra is twice the strength of 'normal' Ultra works out as actually being half the price per 'strength' unit.
It's topic of debate in the household Buying larger quantities is cheaper but only if it lasts as long as smaller amounts bought over a longer time frame. I also prefer buying the good stuff and making it last. I've been nursing a bar of nice dark chocolate since mid February.
Bigger isn't necessarily cheaper. Today I was seeking out 'Roundup' before the H&S police ban it. Apparently Homebase has already been removing it from the shelves, but that's another story. I found 'normal' roundup at about £27 for roughly 500ml, and Ultra at £15 for roughly 250 ml. On the face of it the 500ml has a lower unit price. However when you discover that the Ultra is twice the strength of 'normal' Ultra works out as actually being half the price per 'strength' unit.
This really makes me curmudgeonly. Take washing powder for example. I buy Fairy and they do about 10 different packet sizes including XXXXXL value giga packs (or something like that) but it always works out cheaper per 100g to buy the medium size box. I end up with a list on my phone of the best price per 100g of the regular stuff I buy just to make sure I'm not being ripped off. It's just illogical to make the bigger products more expensive but I bet they assume that if they write 'value' on the box no one will check the comparitive price.
Dairy Milk Chocolate is just as bad. Why is it cheaper per 100g to buy a bag of buttons rather than a massive bar of the stuff? They make the same chocolate into about 10 different shaped products but they all costs different amounts.
If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
We’ve gone right of Cadbury chocolate, last time we had it we decided they’d emptied the salt pot in it. Its a wonder they haven’t banned it for pregnant women, my step daughter has been told she’s not to drink any coffee.
Know what you mean about the driving Dove, I’ve been driving for 55 years now, I can park on a postage stamp and reverse for miles up a narrow lane, It’s what the wing mirrors are for isn’t it, do they learn those skills on the test now. My daughter said they chose a gap of about 3 cars length for her to parallel park in.
Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor.
Ah yes Kraft, the ones who promised they would keep the Keynsham factory open, did the takeover and switched production to Poland. And bu**red up the taste as well.
@ wildedges: the thing that really, really gets me cross is the comparative pricing (decreed by law) that is little more than a nod in the direction of legality - not to say, helpful to the consumer. You look at, say, a bottle of ketchup: shelf edge prices it at x pence per 100 cl. The next size up prices it a y pence per 500 gms. The comparative brand prices it at z pence per kilo. You stand there either totally bewildered, or frantically trying to do the mental arithmetic. And failing. It just goes to show that the powerful companies have ways around the law - and no-one seems to tackle it sensibly - or actually care, so long as the letter of the law is being upheld.
Need to check price to weigh , have some times noticed smaller quantities can be cheaper per 100 grammes which was a surprise ! As for Bxxxx , more votes ! lost for words !
But @Lizzie27 comparative pricing was MEANT to give customers a fair deal! The whole purpose (well, overall intention, I suppose) was that the average shopper could compare prices and value. Shelf edge pricing lists price per volume/weight. But no numpty seemed to think, when framing the legislation, that the unit pricing had to be uniform ie price per 100gms or price per kilo or price per litre (or variations thereof) on all similar products. Or did they? Was it all just a big conspiracy (aka stitch up) with the major producers having undue influence to frame the legislation so that they could be "seen" to obey the law, while at the same time, deliberately clouding the issue? Hmmmm.
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Its a wonder they haven’t banned it for pregnant women, my step daughter has been told she’s not to drink any coffee.
Know what you mean about the driving Dove, I’ve been driving for 55 years now, I can park on a postage stamp and reverse for miles up a narrow lane, It’s what the wing mirrors are for isn’t it, do they learn those skills on the test now. My daughter said they chose a gap of about 3 cars length for her to parallel park in.
As for Bxxxx , more votes ! lost for words !