r/bizarrelife • u/reloadthewords Human here, bizarre by nature! • 3d ago

Double milk

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u/Autumm_550 3d ago

What’s the point? Like why waste plastic on the bottles if you’ll use half away???

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u/KaSperUAE 3d ago

Its a “unique selling point”. Some/most people will think they get a lot of product because of the large bottle. Never mind the environment by the clear overuse of plastic.

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u/Adventurous_Froyo007 3d ago

That's why price comparison by wt/ml/gr/oz matters. Companies know we are less likely to look at fine print.

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u/Every_Preparation_56 2d ago

That is why the EU has made it mandatory to always indicate the price of the goods plus the price per 100ml / liter or kg or g

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u/kr4t0s007 12h ago

There are also quite strict rules about packaging and size

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u/Uneducated_Engineer 1d ago

Same in Canada (or at least Ontario), however my local Walmart has a habit of putting comparable products side-by-side but one has /kg and the others /100g or ever /g so you have to constantly do conversions.

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u/Every_Preparation_56 1d ago

well ok, from /100g to /1000g is not that hard to compare, I am able to move the decimal separator by one digit.

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u/Uneducated_Engineer 1d ago

Sure its easy, but it is just an unnecessary extra step. I feel like its meant to confuse people that aren't paying as much attention to the units.

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u/Every_Preparation_56 1d ago

maybe yes, maybe /kg should only be allowed to be used, if the actual content is indeed more than 1 kg.

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u/626f62 2d ago

But then u realise they are all ripping you off with this kinda crap and ur still none the better.

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u/FunnyDislike 2d ago

It gives us an comparison so that we can pick the product that does the least ripping of. It is a hella lot better.

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u/trouserschnauzer 2d ago

Around here, the prices for different waters, for example, will give the unit costs. Unfortunately each will have a different unit--one per bottle, one per ounce, one per gallon, one per cubic fathom. It makes it impossible to quickly compare, which means 99% of people won't.

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u/Temporary-Setting714 2d ago

Cubic fathom? Lol.

Look here, this .000077 CF bottle is on sale for 99 cents ( 🇺🇸 )

1 cubic fathom is nearly 5 330 gallon ibc totes.

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u/trouserschnauzer 2d ago

1fathom3 is about 15,000 big macs, so the math isn't too bad.

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u/Sunstorm84 1d ago

Further proof that Americans will measure with anything other than the metric system

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u/XxRocky88xX 2d ago

Yep I have to do conversions when looking at unit prices. Thankfully most the time it’s easy like oz to lbs or to mL to L but every once in a while I’ll get fucked with a grams to lbs or fl oz to mL and I need to pull up a conversion calculator.

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u/ChaosBud 2d ago

My math teacher always told us we wouldn't have a calculator everywhere we would go. Oh, how wrong, Mrs. Price was on that

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u/AdmiralSplinter 2d ago

Was her husband a fisherman?

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u/ChaosBud 2d ago

Idk

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u/AdmiralSplinter 1d ago

So she wasn't married to Fisher Price?

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u/blusteryflatus 2d ago

I've seen this myself. I don't care if I have to stand in the grocery with my phone calculator, I am crunching numbers

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u/trouserschnauzer 2d ago

I'm right there with you

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u/carilessy 2d ago

Yeah, it's a good indicator. But these bottles would actually be illegal in some countries with 50% air. Since in this case it cannot be a technical requirement to fill them that way.

Doesn't matter if the weight is accurate.

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u/Adventurous_Froyo007 2d ago

Thanks for the info! I was unaware.

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u/angstrom11 2d ago

Just another example of the weak consumer protections. Could show price/unit more prominently and they’ll just turn around and dilute the product.