If you shop by unit prices, double check the math!
If you shop by unit prices, double check the math!
The per 100g price makes it seem like the 1kg (bottom) item is cheaper than the 2kg one.
I wonder how many people are baited into getting the more expensive item (by weight).
the per 100g price on the bottom is incorrect. they are 70 cents per 100g... or I'm too high. choosing by weight is literally the frugal method.
edit: try living out of a vending machine - if you only have a dollar, you should buy the item with most weight and presumably most calories
Only if it is a 2 pack of 1kg containers. I know costco does that often so I imagine walmart might too. (And if that 2-for-12 runs you a total of 4 kg.)
Top one is 2kg (single unit) and the bottom is sold as a 1 kg single unit, or 2 / $12 (2 x 1kg), which is STILL not a better value than the top one! LOL
That's why I stopped shopping by listed price a long time ago. My punk ass was poor, as in below poverty line several times while still working. Had to learn that lesson quick lol.
Once I learned that the per weight pricing was a more useful metric, I carried a calculator any time I shopped. Ain't no reason to pay more for products that are functionally the same.
Now, I'm not saying that any given brand is worth the savings per weight. Some store brands suck, and do so hard enough that even though they cost less, they're a waste. The products do need to be in line with needs as a primary factor.
Peanut butter in specific, there's a chain here that it is so thick and gritty, you'd think it was a stripper. You take a taste and the only way you'd want it again is if it were twerking on a pole. So, even though name brands cost more, if it comes down to having to eat that crap or do without, I'm doing without.
The issue here is that the per weight pricing listed is half of what it should be.
Ahhh, gotcha. It wasn't evident without paying attention more than I would have considered necessary given the title. Thanks for the correction
I love thinking about peanut butter being a stripper, thank you.
I have to admit, it took me a while to realize the bottom one was only 1kg. And all the numbers would "confirm" that they are both 2kg
It took me a while also. It all make sense if the price by weight is calculated when 2 are bought. Also, a comment about 4kg need not be.
How are you going to pass on one called great value? Would be like buying something that doesn't have the word best in it when another product does. I'm not dumb.
Not sure if you're Canadian, but we have a brand called "President's Choice"... oh god.
As an American the last thing I’d ever be buying is something that’s “presidents choice”
I'd imagine not many. I don't know anyone who says "I need (x of weight) worth of peanut butter!" And then uses the weight as the measurement.
Everyone I know says "I need peanut butter. Oh, $6.97 is less than $8.27" and never checks the weight.
If you're shopping by weight, you're probably not getting either of these. You're getting those massive jars that are like 15lbs, and come in almost mini barrels.
Also, unrelated, but WHY are you getting creamy when EXTRA CRUNCHY exists?
I don't know anyone who says "I need (x of weight) worth of peanut butter!" And then uses the weight as the measurement.
This isnt what that price is for.
Say I'm buying ketchup. Bottle A is 725ml and costs $5. Bottle B is 967ml and costs $6. Giving you the cost / mL tells you which one is actually cheaper, not which one costs less.
Everyone I know says "I need peanut butter. Oh, $6.97 is less than $8.27" and never checks the weight.
If this truly is the case, be happy that nobody you know is struggling to pay for groceries 😉
Crunchy is just creamy that failed. I'm not paying the same price if you can't do it right. now maybe if it was cheaper ...
If you’re shopping by weight, you’re probably not getting either of these. You’re getting those massive jars that are like 15lbs, and come in almost mini barrels.
I tend to buy the max size that my family can reasonably eat before the item goes bad. 2kg is the largest size at this store, but I think anything larger would just be impractical, and I KNOW FOR 10000% FACT that my wife would just drop something heavier on the ground. LOL
Also, unrelated, but WHY are you getting creamy when EXTRA CRUNCHY exists?
I was looking for 100% peanuts in the crunchy variety!
When it come to peanut butter I only get the small jars. I have a rule that once the knife touches the bread it doesn't go back into the jar, my wife doesn't follow this rule so we would end up with a jar the size of my head just sitting there becaused it's filled with old bread bits and no one would buy more because "we already have some".
Americans trying to understand this post
Ah fuck, I've forgotten how to do basic math
I'm stuck trying to figure out how many linear feet there are per gram.
“Great value” is like “all natural:” a totally meaningless phrase that signals nothing except that someone’s selling you something.
Over here, peanut butter is an EXTREMELY costly delicacy. To have a store sell it in 2kg portions for less than 10usd looks like a dream to me.
You people need to better appreciate what you have
It's great value peanut butter. It is easier to clarify that as a semi solid oil than actual peanut butter. Feel free to be jealous but that's not 'good' peanut butter. It's better than nothing but only just.
https://www.walmart.ca/en/ip/Great-Value-Smooth-Peanut-Butter/6000197838147
It's palm oil with some peanuts.
The great value peanut butter has a weird taste, in my opinion. it's worth a few bucks more to get something that tastes better.
But that's no excuse for the wrong per 100g price listed, is it?
Rule #1: Never buy great value.
I was actually looking for 100% peanut butter, but this discrepancy caught my eye, and it really bothered me because I almost always ignore the product price and compare items by unit price. Now I'm second guessing everything they list!
You should shop by ingrediends and ecological reasons. That's sadly not represented by $/g.
The heavier product with the better "bang for the buck" is usually the one with the poorest quality and lots of sugar/additives/flavours/etc.
Discounter products like "Great Value" can easily have a better quality than stuff produced by "Kraft" and other Unilever/Nestle/etc. products.
Checking the ingredients list and the nutrition table should be a natural first instinct when grabbing something off the shelf.
What? How can my comment possibly be voted down?
You're buying from the store? Don't you know that's terrible for your health and the environment? You should grow your own in your greenhouse. Jeez. Some people.
Yes. Because we live in a setting of specialists.
I am no specialist at efficiently growing healthy food. So if I try it, it will be objectively worse than if someone else more proficient does it for me. And if that one is worse in doing something I am better in, we both are off worse and everything overall.
So if we both would do things we are good at, the resulting products/services would be better, the processes would be more efficient (time, ressources, waste), which in return benefits all participants and the environment at the same time.
Actually that is so efficient, it is possible to pay for the store's rent, the wage of the people transporting, managing and selling that stuff to me. If I ineffectively grow my own food, all these are out of their jobs or have to (badly) grow their food at home, which they cannot afford anymore and they even do not have the necessary space for a field to do so.
always. practicing basic division is also good brain excersise.
....these are not comparable products. One is PB, the other is Lite PB.
I think you missed the point. If they were both the same size jar (2kg or 1kg, it doesn't matter), then there may be a difference in price between regular and lite.
But the 1k jar is listed as being less expensive per 100g, and that's flat out wrong when you do the math.
Walmart unit price is completely broken in general. They also have glitches in the "did you forget to add?" page where it will show an item as a sale price, but when you add it, you'll see total price increase by sale price, and a few seconds later, a second price increase to the normal price. Re-checking the cart will show the item as not on sale. There are some other real weird glitches with that e-commerce platform. A rat's nest of bugs that might not be intentionally nefarious, but also could be.
What a happy accident if prices go up before actually buying and paying
Oh man, I've had their online cart show me a total amount "saved" that makes absolutely no sense.
It's crazy that one of the largest retailers on the planet is so incapable of having a working online ordering system.
Especially in a physical store, I see it all too often
They did. It's intentional.
This seems to be the confusing product: https://www.walmart.ca/en/ip/Kraft-Smooth-Light-Peanut-Butter/10298330?from=/search