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).
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.
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
Surprise, the heaviest $1 item was a 1500 g bottle of still water…
Well the second heaviest then
Oh, which one are you referring to here – of all those different 750 g supposedly exotic fruitberry-flavoured water beverages, all with 0 kcal? One of those with a dose of factory-added vitamins, or just the funkiest sun-kissed fruit imitation available?
There bottom one is 60 cents per 100 g. Top left it says 2 for 12$. It may be that the weight didn’t register correctly, as it says ‘1’ instead of ‘1kg’ or because some other conflict.
What happened there? These are presumably calculated automatically, so does the second item has its mass listed as 2kg?
What happened? We live in corporate dictatorships where oligarchs can false advertise, price gouge, kick your dog, and fuck your wife… and your only recourse is a class action lawsuit where you make a few bucks after a decade.
Damn, I didn’t know things were so bad there in Canada.
The same dystopian enshittification is going on pretty much everywhere, you just aren’t aware of it yet.
I’ve been noticing bad math in the Uber driver app lately.
There have been a few times it tells me my ETA is 12 minutes but I’m 16 miles away. Like I know it doesn’t think I’m gonna be doing these residential streets at 90 mph
Afaik that’s deliberate to force the driver to get to the destination asap at all costs, but also to lie to the customer that their ride is just a few minutes away so there’s no need to cancel or look for alternatives.
Second item is 1KG.
Price per 100g should not change.
Even in the detailed info? If so that’s weird; probably something along the lines of “the seller messed up the weight, fixed it, but for some insane reason the site doesn’t recalculate the price”.
My guess is that there’s some funky spaghetti code that’s using the promo, which is for 2 kg, as the weight of the product on the calculations.
Second is scam by 2 for 12$ but 35c(lol?) per 100g. = 3,50 per 1kg = 7 for 2kg… So 6.97 for 1 kg by 35ct per 100g. Wtf?
Especially in a physical store, I see it all too often
“Great value” is like “all natural:” a totally meaningless phrase that signals nothing except that someone’s selling you something.
Great value is like “kraft”. It’s the brand name. The store brand in this case.
Yep I can see that. I just find it fatuous.
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
https://www.walmart.ca/en/ip/Great-Value-Smooth-Peanut-Butter/6000197838147
It’s palm oil with some peanuts.
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.
Oh don’t worry, I am sure that whatever we get sent down here for exports is of inferior quality than your worst quality product
But feel free to expose how no one has it worst than you guys as an excuse to complain
I don’t know what peanut butter is like in other countries. In Japan it was very different, a lot sweeter.
What’s yours like? Have you ever been able to compare it to something like JIF?
C’mon man. I gotta agree here, that stuff tastes pretty… Well, you won’t feel good later.
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
It very well could be typical corporate fuckery, but that makes me wonder if it’s actually a bug and that it’s computing the per kg price based on the single until price but dividing by the total weight of the pack.
Or perhaps it’s a “bug” that’s left intentionally until called out.
If it’s a “bug” that they are actively profiting from, likely for years, it’s probably a feature! 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.
always. practicing basic division is also good brain excersise.
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”
This seems to be the confusing product: https://www.walmart.ca/en/ip/Kraft-Smooth-Light-Peanut-Butter/10298330?from=%2Fsearch
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!
They are routinely wrong. And sometimes they list (in the US) things by unit instead of weight. I have reported many wrong listings like this. Always double check any label/listing because people are lazy at so many companies.
The worst is mixed units for the same items.
With must items I buy on a regular basis, I’m able to make quick comparisons off the top of my head, but it would be nice if things were accurate!
…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.
Americans trying to understand this post
I’m stuck trying to figure out how many linear feet there are per gram.
Ah fuck, I’ve forgotten how to do basic math
