I’m putting the Wal*marts on official notice. You might recall that in the past Wal*mart has not always been honest with me about the better buy.
I’m not one of those Wal*mart detractors who go around looking for reasons not to like it. I grew up in the middle of Missouri and we’ve had Wal*mart stores for my whole life. Our local Wal*mart was one of the first 30 stores, and I overheard my dad say once when someone was complaining about Wal*mart that we wouldn’t have had shoes some years if it weren’t for Wal*mart.
But Wal*mart, you’ve got to cut this out. When I buy more of something, I expect the unit price to go down. If you keep pulling crap like this, I’m going to have to start paying attention to every little things I buy, and that will make me question whether I really need something, and neither one of us wants that.
Exhibit A:
4 rolls for $1.00 and 12 rolls for $3.88 (yes, the rolls were the same size)
Exhibit B:
35 square feet for $2.88 and 50 square feet $2.88 (neither one of these is a bargain)
Someone had left a $0.55 coupon next to the 50 square feet roll, which made it a reasonable price, so we bought that one.
Exhibit C:
(Technically this might not be an exhibit, because I don’t have a picture; I’m just telling you about it.) Blocks of Cheddar Cheese cost less than Shredded Cheddar, but blocks of Mozzarella cost more than Shredded Mozzarella.
So Wal*mart, lets not let this happen again. I’m not above changing my spending habits.
Yup, just as I suspected – the marketing geniuses at Walmart know that Americans are horrible at math.
Crap! Now you’ve made me feel the need to question my bulk purchases 🙁 You’d think we could trust that these people in power of setting prices had half a math brain!
This would make a good consumer math lesson – how dare you make me think about teaching during my summer break!
I’m going to check this out in my Walmart…and then I’m going to ask the manager what’s up? I’m surprised you haven’t done this already Lloyd. If I don’t get a good answer, I’m going to start handing out ‘your’ smiley face as people come in to shop!
They would totally have caught me with that one. I’m kind of a careless shopper. Fortunately, I don’t shop at Walmart very often. Target is closer.
Do they have a “unit price” label on the shelving?
Hey Lloyd, we know you’d be the most proud of us – we just bought an iMac! 🙂
Help. I’m stuck on the edge of the grid. It was sort of fun to be disconnected at Heits Point for a few days. But we thought we’d be back tonight. Alas, no such luck. The Internet is down at the time-share.
We had a swell time with my relatives, and met up with Lauren’s this afternoon. A good time all around.
I should have asked the Walmart manager if he was trying to pull a fast one on me. Oh well. Maybe next time. The was an employee who seemed a little concerned that we were taking pictures.