The rules seem very fungible. There are packaging laws and some companies are ethical but many are deceptive. If you're curious for example - you can good search grocery store items at Amazon.com. Sometimes things are clear and sometimes the info is deceptive if not highly deceptive. Amazon seems to be under no regulation at all to force them to list items by unit cost and/or mass/volume cost. Candy and snacks are a good examples.
Because we usually don't use the metric system the mass/volume stuff is annoying. Plus sometimes the metric system is used on one item but seemingly identical item is in ounces.
Americans are lazy.
Americans are stupid.
The first two items could be fixed with intelligent legislation but that will never happen. Also - I wonder if we will ever switch to metric.
In all honesty I'm not immune to being lazy (and even stupid) and I've made mistakes getting groceries delivered and buying groceries online.
Because we usually don’t use the metric system the mass/volume stuff is annoying.
I completely forgot about that. I wouldn't call yourself lazy or stupid though. If I had to calculate and convert imperial units every time I shop I'd give up. The onus should be on grocery stores not customers
A simple regulatory trick would be to always show at least one simple mass/volume cost per unit in metric units because they are sane and easy enough for a child to figure out. An added bonus would be if companies fucked with sizes - the price per unit would go up and be easy to see. But this is pointless commentary. Regulation in the US is a joke.
A simple regulatory trick would be to always show at least one simple mass/volume cost per unit in metric units because they are sane and easy enough for a child to figure out
Yeah that's what we have in Australia. Eg our ice cream has price/litre or 100ml, so a company changing the size of their tubs will be immediately noticed
They actually use packaging that deliberately hides how much smaller the products have gotten. Like the outside of the package is the same size, but the bottom has been altered so it's concave and takes up a lot of space. Or with snickers candy bars they started dividing the big bar in to to shorter bars of about the same lenght, but the total weight is smaller. It's... It's... it's really exhausting.
Another trick companies here do mess with the serving size. It can be small (or absurdly small) so a pack of potato chips shows the "200" in 200 calories in a extra big font but the serving size of 10 is in a much smaller font.
Anyway, the food stuff is - cough - small potatoes compared to everything else - tech stuff, Wall Street, etc. One thing that really grinds my gears is that it's legal for members of congress to do insider trading.
Every time a lib starts in about "How important Pelosi's house leadership has been for the democrats..." - I don't even bother making an argument. I just say "Yeah! Her pro-insider trading stance has been so important in helping to fix income inequality and it has benefited our democracy as a whole."
Does the US not have price per unit mass/volume displayed on products?
I'm American....
The rules seem very fungible. There are packaging laws and some companies are ethical but many are deceptive. If you're curious for example - you can good search grocery store items at Amazon.com. Sometimes things are clear and sometimes the info is deceptive if not highly deceptive. Amazon seems to be under no regulation at all to force them to list items by unit cost and/or mass/volume cost. Candy and snacks are a good examples.
Because we usually don't use the metric system the mass/volume stuff is annoying. Plus sometimes the metric system is used on one item but seemingly identical item is in ounces.
Americans are lazy.
Americans are stupid.
The first two items could be fixed with intelligent legislation but that will never happen. Also - I wonder if we will ever switch to metric.
In all honesty I'm not immune to being lazy (and even stupid) and I've made mistakes getting groceries delivered and buying groceries online.
I completely forgot about that. I wouldn't call yourself lazy or stupid though. If I had to calculate and convert imperial units every time I shop I'd give up. The onus should be on grocery stores not customers
A simple regulatory trick would be to always show at least one simple mass/volume cost per unit in metric units because they are sane and easy enough for a child to figure out. An added bonus would be if companies fucked with sizes - the price per unit would go up and be easy to see. But this is pointless commentary. Regulation in the US is a joke.
Here's another example. Emphasis mine...
Yeah that's what we have in Australia. Eg our ice cream has price/litre or 100ml, so a company changing the size of their tubs will be immediately noticed
They actually use packaging that deliberately hides how much smaller the products have gotten. Like the outside of the package is the same size, but the bottom has been altered so it's concave and takes up a lot of space. Or with snickers candy bars they started dividing the big bar in to to shorter bars of about the same lenght, but the total weight is smaller. It's... It's... it's really exhausting.
Another trick companies here do mess with the serving size. It can be small (or absurdly small) so a pack of potato chips shows the "200" in 200 calories in a extra big font but the serving size of 10 is in a much smaller font.
Anyway, the food stuff is - cough - small potatoes compared to everything else - tech stuff, Wall Street, etc. One thing that really grinds my gears is that it's legal for members of congress to do insider trading.
Every time a lib starts in about "How important Pelosi's house leadership has been for the democrats..." - I don't even bother making an argument. I just say "Yeah! Her pro-insider trading stance has been so important in helping to fix income inequality and it has benefited our democracy as a whole."