Put your calculators away boys. Looks like the store discovered how math works.
this post was submitted on 10 Feb 2024
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Where is the midly infuriating part?
Presenting the pricing as if it represents a bulk discount when it doesn't.
The only reason to do this is to trick people who can't do multiplication into buying more.
It probably once did, but they relabeled it.
Yeah, but only for 1. There would still have been no saving buying 3 over 2.
If original price was 9
1 for 9
2 for 18 (deal gives 2 off)
3 for 27 (deal gives 3 off)
If it was 10
1 for 10
2 for 20 (4 off)
3 for 30 (6 off)
But you don't pay more either. Without the discount on 3 pack, buying odd numbers would've been worse value than even numbers but the 3 pack discount makes all bulk purchases equal.
It only makes sense they did if the origianl price was higher, which is quite weird unless they specifically don't want people to buy more than 1
gotta jack the price up again to afford more price stickers.
I'd argue it's a nice thing to make the costs obvious for people who can't do multiplication.
You can clearly see there is a sticker over the original price. It originally probably was a bulk deal that the store reduced to an all around deal.
You're over here bitching about people who can't do math and you can't even see.
I'm bitching? About people who can't do math? That's news to me. Thank god you were there to tell me!
Why is this downvoted. I had the same question and I was genuinely confused. Are we not allowed to ask questions :x
How to pay 8 £^2
Move to the planet No Bloke's Land
Math
Yeah but how much for 4?
Wish I could tell you, buddy
Well 2 is between 1 and 6, 3 is between 2 and 4. So for 4 I’d say anywhere from 35 to 39 dollars. Which is, itself, a spread of 4 so you know it’s right.
I can't express the embarrassment I feel from how long it took me to understand this.
Not sure I still do
They're dissociating the numbers on the right from their normal 2-digit value into being two separate 1-digit values. 16 is not sixteen, it's a one and six. The value of 2 is between 1 and 6.
Same goes with 3 being between 2 and 4.
Then they do even more delightfully dumb shit when extrapolating this logic to 4.
In reality, the things in OPs image are just $8 a piece.
What I'm saying is that this commenter is a fuckin savant.
Math can be tricky
Ok.... But is ££8 more expensive than £8?
Thats 8 square-pounds.
I got a square pound in my pants and I'm not even European.
Then you should change your Depends.
If you're ready to pay for that subscription you wanted.
4 for £33
How much for 5?
We haven't yet discovered the mathematics needed to answer that question
I think I figured it out:
The left number is always going one up, while rights number decrease - starting at two - always halves itself.
Therefore 5 should be 42.5
£ - 8£
£ £8
It was pointed out that the first price was higher originally. The funny thing is that in that case the price of four would be nice to know. With the given information it would be economically more efficient to buy two times two if you wanted four vs one times three and then an additional one.
£3... something?
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