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<blockquote data-quote="Daniel Avery" data-source="post: 279598" data-attributes="member: 27">I guess you can call this my rant on &quot;Cynical Pricing&quot;.I went to the supermarket today to stock up for July 4th.&nbsp; I wanted to buy some corn, and they offered individual ears of corn (still in the husks) for 40 cents each.&nbsp; They also offered four ears of corn with the husks stripped off, pre-packaged for...$3.99.&nbsp; I found that hilarious.&nbsp; I can clean the ears of corn myself and save the money.Same store: they had 38 oz. Coca-Colas on the shelf for $1.39 each.&nbsp; They also had 20 oz. sizes in their cold case at the registers for $1.99 each.&nbsp; So not only is the drink at the registers smaller (nearly half the size), it costs 60 cents more simply because it&#039;s cold.&nbsp; Oh...kay.I had decided not to buy a box of cookies in their bakery that had four, large cookies in it for $5.99.&nbsp; I had to force myself to put it down, let me tell you.&nbsp; So then when I&#039;m checking out, I see the same cookies packaged individually (in plastic bags) and being sold for $2.50 apiece.&nbsp; I had to do a double-take, and when I told the cashier about the 4 for 5.99 thing, she shrugged it off.&nbsp; If only I could have found some pricing trick to get the steaks cheaper, because...holy crap I might need to take a second mortgage.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Daniel Avery, post: 279598, member: 27"] I guess you can call this my rant on "Cynical Pricing". I went to the supermarket today to stock up for July 4th. I wanted to buy some corn, and they offered individual ears of corn (still in the husks) for 40 cents each. They also offered four ears of corn with the husks stripped off, pre-packaged for...$3.99. I found that hilarious. I can clean the ears of corn myself and save the money. Same store: they had 38 oz. Coca-Colas on the shelf for $1.39 each. They also had 20 oz. sizes in their cold case at the registers for $1.99 each. So not only is the drink at the registers smaller (nearly half the size), it costs 60 cents [I]more [/I]simply because it's [I]cold[/I]. Oh...kay. I had decided not to buy a box of cookies in their bakery that had four, large cookies in it for $5.99. I had to force myself to put it down, let me tell you. So then when I'm checking out, I see the same cookies packaged individually (in plastic bags) and being sold for $2.50 apiece. I had to do a double-take, and when I told the cashier about the 4 for 5.99 thing, she shrugged it off. If only I could have found some pricing trick to get the steaks cheaper, because...holy crap I might need to take a second mortgage. [/QUOTE]

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