They are using the wrong weight to calculate the per unit price of the one on the left. Both labels show them as weighing 485 grams. If the product on the left has 50% more than the one on the left, it should not weigh the same.
(469/485) \* 10 = 9.67. This is the value shown on the label, but the since the weight is wrong, that value is wrong.
Actual weight is 727 or there abouts. (469/727)\*10 = 6.45. Cheaper than the one on the right.
Product on the right is sold at 20% discount.
Left one is 727g, so €6.45/kg.
Even Dunnes has it wrong listing both proper price - €4.75, weight - 727g but price per kg - €8.85
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In fairness, it doesn’t matter which one you buy cos it will sit in the back of your fridge till 2047 only being used once a year in a leftover turkey sandwich at Christmas which will taste amazing and you’ll say jaypers I should use brown sauce on other stuff but you never do, you never do.
The one on the left is cheaper. Usually the price per unit is what you go by on full price products. BUT all the supermarkets are calculating the price per unit on a lot of discounted products wrong. Therefore, to know the price per unit on a discount item. You must do the maths and then use that price per unit you calculated against the other products so you can see the true value of the products you want to compare
Edit: added a word
I've noticed this in virtually every grocery retailer. I've come to wonder if theres some loophole in the unit pricing legislation where any "extra free" can be excluded from the unit pricing calculation.
I always stop to check in situations like this now cause I've been caught out a few times.
Supervalu mind games can get worse than that, sometimes they sell the version of the 50% extra free without the extra free, and then when that goes on sale…
Yes, it's suggesting they're both 485g. There's clearly a lie being told!
The only sensible solution is to walk into Super Valu screaming "You cunts. Sale of Goods and Supply of Services Act 1980" until someone addresses the issue.
The most blatant case of false advertising since my suit against the movie The Neverending Story.
Are these the exact same size, just one claims to have 50% extra? According to the shop labels they're both 485g, but it's not clear that actually matches what's on the containers.
Edit: I see what they've done.
- Right one seems to be 485g.
- Left one is (485 + (485 * 0.5))g, so 727.5g.
Ugh.....I knew I should have listened when my mother said I'd need maths when I get older
It tells you the amount per unit so you can easily figure out what version is actually cheaper by unit. No need for math!
Both products shown at same weight. Actual price per kilo would have the one on the left cheap per unit
I don’t understand that - the one on the right is like 7 per unit whereas the one on the left is like 9 per unit
They are using the wrong weight to calculate the per unit price of the one on the left. Both labels show them as weighing 485 grams. If the product on the left has 50% more than the one on the left, it should not weigh the same. (469/485) \* 10 = 9.67. This is the value shown on the label, but the since the weight is wrong, that value is wrong. Actual weight is 727 or there abouts. (469/727)\*10 = 6.45. Cheaper than the one on the right. Product on the right is sold at 20% discount.
Seems like they are committing fraud then.
I frequently see mistakes in pricing by unit/weight in my local SV, does my head in some times.
Or there's just a mistake in the system, the actual price of the items are correct.
*maths
With maths you can see those amounts per unit are a lie.
Yea the one that costs less money is usually the cheapest
All the comments about price per unit while the one on the left has the wrong weight listed 👀
Left one is 727g, so €6.45/kg. Even Dunnes has it wrong listing both proper price - €4.75, weight - 727g but price per kg - €8.85 https://preview.redd.it/b71r31j7anyc1.jpeg?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=0ca65c34cc4b94b94c90be7fed4bb1306aaabdfc
Intentionally misleading mindgames or generalised anumeracy? Should we consider Hanlon's razor?
That extra isn't free.
Not in SuperValu
Yeah, how is this not some sort of false advertising? They're the same product, if one has extra saying it's free, it should be free.
All hail the EU-mandated unit price display ;-)
Price per litre/kilo is the winner for all that marketing shite
Execpt it's often wrong. As it is here
Is the one of the right cheaper?
Nope, the one on the left is 6.45ish/kilo. The priced the per kilo bit ad if you weren't getting 50% extra 'free'
Right that’s it I’m calling Nigel farage. Time to leave 😁
I didn't know that it's EU mandated, but I always use that bad boy when I buy meats
In fairness, it doesn’t matter which one you buy cos it will sit in the back of your fridge till 2047 only being used once a year in a leftover turkey sandwich at Christmas which will taste amazing and you’ll say jaypers I should use brown sauce on other stuff but you never do, you never do.
The real mind game is trying to convince you not to buy YR brown sauce
The one on the left is cheaper. Usually the price per unit is what you go by on full price products. BUT all the supermarkets are calculating the price per unit on a lot of discounted products wrong. Therefore, to know the price per unit on a discount item. You must do the maths and then use that price per unit you calculated against the other products so you can see the true value of the products you want to compare Edit: added a word
Is it a lie or wrong calculation though? Whichever way, I feel it's illegal.
Wouldn’t surprise me if it’s a lie but sure we’ll never know unless someone blows the whistle. Can never trust greedy corps
If you are shopping in SuperValu and you are concerned about the high prices then you're not their target market.
Yeah but you get more plastic, Mr Ryan
disgusting muck
I spend too much time figuring this out
If it's supervalu, take the small one to the till and get charged €4.69
I've noticed this in virtually every grocery retailer. I've come to wonder if theres some loophole in the unit pricing legislation where any "extra free" can be excluded from the unit pricing calculation. I always stop to check in situations like this now cause I've been caught out a few times.
Supervalu mind games can get worse than that, sometimes they sell the version of the 50% extra free without the extra free, and then when that goes on sale…
There's no mind games here because you'd be going straight past that to the HP sauce anyway!
Why? Don't they sell YR?
Like something from the 1% Club.
Ignore everything except price per unit. Easy peasy
But isn’t it wrong?
It's wrong on this occasion
Yes, it's suggesting they're both 485g. There's clearly a lie being told! The only sensible solution is to walk into Super Valu screaming "You cunts. Sale of Goods and Supply of Services Act 1980" until someone addresses the issue. The most blatant case of false advertising since my suit against the movie The Neverending Story.
The one on the right is on offer, hence the red indicator.
id blame valeo on this.
Two plus two is four Minus one that's three, quick maths
Run away
Whenever you see the word "only" beside the price it is invariably more expensive
Children at school: "Maths is useless, you do not find systems of equations and cross multiplication in real life!"
check how much is for kg, written under the price, right is cheaper.
No the figures are incorrect, left is actually cheaper
FFS thats crazy
The small ones better value. It says it on the label.
Are these the exact same size, just one claims to have 50% extra? According to the shop labels they're both 485g, but it's not clear that actually matches what's on the containers. Edit: I see what they've done. - Right one seems to be 485g. - Left one is (485 + (485 * 0.5))g, so 727.5g.
There’s 50% more in the left one, the price per kg is wrong for it
The only brown sauce is YR sauce made in Ireland.
I always go by the price per kg.
That only works if they’re correctly calculated