Pay attention to the unit price

[Frank]

Extreme case, wife was at the drug store for Naphcon-A for eye allergy
relief. The single pack cost the same as the two pack, both are 5ml per
bottle. Go figure! Who would buy the single pack?

Sometimes the per unit price is less buying single unit than buying the bulk
package. What is going on? Are we using California new math?

[John A. Weeks III]

In article <U42dnSmlpqUN6Y7V...@comcast.com>,
" Frank" <nore...@nothome.net> wrote:

The smaller the quantity, the more the packaging and overhead is per
unit of item. They still want to put out the smaller item because
some people will buy the smallest and cheapest one they can, even
when the double sized package is only a few pennies more.

This is not universal, however. I sometimes see the per unit price
on the bigger quantity being more. That is due to the bigger unit
being less popular, so it doesn't have the economy of sale, and
the bigger quantity item item is less likely to go on sale.

Personally, since anything I buy I am very likely to need to buy
again in the future, so I normally buy at least a 1 year supply,
or buy half a dozen of the biggest quantity available. I hate
having to go back to the store to buy stuff on a routine basis.

-john-

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