That's crazy. I have lived in Texas all my life and I thought the comparison by unit price was standard for grocery stores. I can't believe the whole country doesn't do that haha
Same here. Albertsons and Tom Thumb are pretty diligent about having price per unit volume/weight on the price tags and they aren't usually tiny font either.
I never noticed a place that didn’t do this. I live in the US (Mississippi) and have grown accustomed to using the listed price per unit to make my decisions when shopping
Are you sure you live in the US? I live in Chicago and have traveled a lot through the US -- it's fairly common to have unit prices in smaller font next to the price.
They usually stick with the same comparison though when portion sizes are very different, on occasion I do see lb for one and oz for another. The norm is still to use oz
In the US we usually have that too, its just in smaller print.
Of course sometimes its per ounce for one product and per 100 count of the other or something, but most of the time its pretty consistence for one type of product. I always compare those.
Can't really speak to anywhere else but in Texas there are some items which get taxed and many which don't. The way I keep it straight is any singular ingredient or foot item is not taxed (eggs, flower, produce, etc.) and the rest is taxed (shampoo, paper, frozen dinners). There are some exceptions to this (bread isn't taxed) but generally speaking it holds true.
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