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Originally Posted by maggie2101
Scott is just about the same as it always was.
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Yeah, and it stinks...*before* you use it. My wife's aunt buys that, it's only one step removed from sandpaper. The last time we visited (we stay for 2 or 3 days) I said I'm going to start bringing my own.
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Originally Posted by Jukesgrrl
It's absurdly expensive. But look carefully at pricing of different-sized packages. At several stores in my area, buying three packages of 9-rolls is significantly cheaper than buying one 24-roll package of the same brand. I save cash and get three extra rolls of the same size. That seems disingenuous to me. Haven't we been taught that buying big leads to savings? In this case, buying small does.
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I get the 'Angel Soft' and I've noticed that at WallyWorld, the 12 'jumbo' roll package is the best deal, the smaller and larger packages are more expensive on a per sheet basis.
It used to be that larger sizes were always less expensive on a comparative basis, but that went out the window years ago, it's no longer guaranteed. You have to really look at the unit pricing. Personally, I think it might be intentional- playing of what used to be a truism and counting on the majority of the purchasers to either not notice or be too lazy to do the comparison (or simply not care).
I've also noticed that some brands of some products have the unit pricing based on different units of measure, which makes it even more difficult to compare- you can't just go by the unit price on the shelf tag, you have to actually do the math on both sizes using a common quantity.
And then there's the shrinking package sizes- something that has always been a pound of product is suddenly only 14oz, or 13, or 12; a 2lb package suddenly becomes 38oz. I think it's deceitful.
Even worse, something I've noticed particularly at Walmart is that the unit pricing on the shelf label may be *completely* wrong- the math is incorrect, or the label displays the unit price based on a larger size, when the item on the shelf is actually a smaller size than what is on the label.
You just can't trust them anymore, you have to pay significantly more attention to make sure you aren't being screwed. It's usually only only 'a little bit'...but that 'little bit' swiped on 10s of millions of purchases adds up to a lot of dollars.
There's been a lot of talk about what the CEOs of large corporations are being paid (compared to the average worker) but I think a bigger issue is that it seems like many of these companies have an attitude of "We can stiff the consumers and there's not a darn thing they can do about it. Don't like it? Tough cookies. We can do what we want and you can't touch us." It seems to run the spectrum from product companies stiffing consumers on pricing and warrantees to insurance companies giving people the runaround on claims and doing everything they can to get out of paying (coughAlstatecough) to predatory pricing on drugs that people may die without.
It wouldn't surprise me if someday ticked-off consumers started 'going postal' on some of these companies. Of course, they'll be labeled as 'nuts' or 'terrorists'...but I think that a lot of people are feeling like they've been pushed around far too much, whether they see it as coming from the government or large companies, or both, and they're getting fed up and some may be nearing the breaking point.
And on a lighter note: The amount of time that a roll of TP lasts is directly proportional to the number of females in the household vs. the number of males.
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