Posted on 02/25/2015 12:27:57 AM PST by Citizen Zed
DAYTON-- Identical women's and men's products are being sold at different price points in Ohio.
The phenomenon is known as "pink tax," and we put some products to the test.
One-a-day "Pro Edge" vitamins, 50 count, are packed in the same sized box just different colors; the women's vitamins cost $9.49, while the men's cost $7.99.
Up&Up women's shave gel for dry skin relief costs $2.39, while the identical product for men, packaged in a blue cartridge rather than pink, costs $1.87.
The Gillette Fusion men's razor with five blades and packaged with two extra cartridges costs $10.79, while the women's Gillette Venus Embrace razor with five blades and packaged with two extra cartridges costs $10.99.
When all three items were purchased for each gender, the receipt total for the women's products was $22.87, while the men's totaled $20.65 (pre-tax).
"Its frustrating, I'm not really buying it for the packaging or the aesthetics," said U-D student Claire Cooperrider about the so-called "pink tax."
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ISIS is burning People alive and this is News.
Stop the World, I want to get off.
It’s just tougher to get men into a store in the first place. If I need an item that costs 10 dollars, I get the item and get the hell out. If I need an item and it costs 10 dollars, and I take my wife with me, we spend 160 dollars.
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Maybe because they are in greater demand from women... not mentioning fags? duh!
I find it funny it is ok to mandate men to pay for contraception but when the markets find an opportunity to offset men product costs lest they disappear, it is called discrimination.
But this is another redistribution scheme.
Simple solution, Claire: Buy the blue equivalents.
The vendor cannot charge more for the product than the customer is willing to pay. There are a few exceptions like obamacare, but the blue equivalent may be cheaper because it’s a harder sell. As mentioned, the solution is to compare ingredients and if both are the same, buy the cheaper version.
Put another way, Fifty Shades of Stupid.
You can charge more for women’s products. They don’t care about price. They just get their husbands to pay for it.
Men have always paid the “Pink Tax”. Quit yer whining.
You have a life changing choice to make Claire. You can choose the red package or you can choose the blue package.
i bet you claire’s father pays more for life insurance than claire’s mother.
>>>It’s just tougher to get men into a store in the first place. If I need an item that costs 10 dollars, I get the item and get the hell out. If I need an item and it costs 10 dollars, and I take my wife with me, we spend 160 dollars.<<<
I’m sure your wife would point out that everything she bought was on sale. And if the full retail price was $300 for those items she would feel so proud of herself for saving you $140. Dude, appreciate how much money your wife saves when you take her with.
Some exceptions - hair dye, for example, is cheaper if you buy the brands that are for women (hair is hair).
They do stories like this periodically.
Lots of factors play into it. How much marketing they do factors in. They put a lot more women’s ads out there for many products because there is a lot of competition for certain things and they know women buy more items than men. More advertising has to be paid for.
How much it costs to sell a product factors in. Where it is on the shelf factors in. End of an aisle? All that crap. Is it in an upscale store? That factors in. It may be the same type of product but have different ingredients. That factors in. Packaging may be more expensive. Might have a fancier box and little extras compared to the shrink-wrapped mens’ comparable product with no extras. With the shave gel perhaps men’s is less because they go through a can faster than a woman does.
They still are free to buy the lower priced product. There are plain no scent shave gels.
It's a mad, mad, mad, mad, mad one, no?
You’ve bought into the lie.
Buying stuff on sale doesn’t necessarily “save” you money. That stuff takes up space in the house and if you’re worried about saving a little money chances are you’re not in a mansion with space to spare. Also requires good organization and knowing what you’ve got so you don’t overbuy and waste money on stuff you’ve already stocked up on.
There are other things to consider. I like bargains but the house can get cluttered with bargains thinking you’re coming out ahead. PLus $10 turning into $150 puts you down $150 in reality. Regardless that is debt. Not everyone can afford to have trips cost 10-20 times what they expected to pay even if stuff is on sale.
Well, the girls are a pre-built market for such amenities. [TG] If you want cost disparity, look at clothing prices...
Unit price isn’t the issue. It’s the number of products used to look your best.
I have one bottle of shampoo in the shower. Each woman in our family has ten bottles in the shower. Heaven help me if I accidentally bump one and set off the avalanche.
After the shower, a quick swipe with the razor, slap on some deodorant, drag a brush through the hair, scrub the teeth and I’m ready for the day — maybe a total of five products. Let’s see a woman do that!
I bet they never looked for the opposite phenomena.
On the other hand, how do they know that the products are identical? The packaging isn’t.
This is just Marxist philosophy, disguised as journalism.
Marxist dogma is that there is an “objective” value for everything.
That is entirely false. Value is a function of demand, sometimes on the micro level, and is mainly subjective.
How much is something worth? Whatever you can get someone to pay for it.
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