I was in a store the other day and spied a BOGO (buy one, get one free) special on 8 ounce bags of grated cheese, the only time I make such purchases for my salads & omelettes. It’s a better deal than buying the bricks, though I try to avoid the additives.
Juxtaposed against days-past, today’s labels clearly show the price/unit not only for the regular price, but the sale price as well (depending on the chain, of course).
Whereas the larger bags of cheese afforded the best unit price, BOGO was a superior unit price.
Still, as I was scrutinizing the products and making a choice, a woman next to me walked up, grabbed one of the 16 ounce bags and I chose to speak up and point out the BOGO special.
She looked at the label on the BOGO and, still walked away with the double-the-unit-price 16 ounce bag for what she perceived was a better deal.
Knowledge & hands-on experience mean nothing without common sense, especially when it’s staring you right in the face in literal black & white.
Schools cannot teach common sense. Even though you don’t cite it, you had FAR more influence on your kids than the school could ever have had on “adulting”...
I cannot STAND that term, “Adulting”!
Crazy as it seems, our grocery store may have 3 different price per lb on their holiday turkeys. Same brand but guess from different shipments. I’m always telling people to go back to look for the cheaper priced birds. Most look at me like I’ve just grown a third eye.
Just this week, there was an unbelievable sale on link sausage. 50 cents for a 12 oz package! I bought two cases. An elderly lady informed me it would rot before I ate it all. Guess she’d never heard of a freezer so it’s not just the millennials who haven’t a clue. Much wiser to buy two cases at 50 cents than drive 20 miles back to the store next week to purchase one more of the same sausage for $4.99 next week and the same the following week, rinse and repeat. She later made a comment about me getting 8 cans of chili, sigh. Thankfully, she didn’t notice the 99 cent big bag of over ripe bananas that we ate on a few days, some went into the dehydrator for banana chips and the rest will become banana bread for Christmas presents.
I’ve noticed a change in buying habits. In years past, people would look for the best buys/unit pricing. Now days, people just throw items in their carts willy nilly never looking at the prices.
Store bought grated cheese has a coating on it to keep the graded pieces from sticking together. You’re better off buying a block of cheese freezing it and then grading it. Freezing it makes it a lot easier to manage and you can also use a food processor to grate it if cheese is Frozen.
Store bought grated cheese has a coating on it to keep the graded pieces from sticking together. You’re better off buying a block of cheese freezing it and then grading it. Freezing it makes it a lot easier to manage and you can also use a food processor to grate it if cheese is Frozen.