Target stores unit pricing on paper goods.

 Target unit pricing shelf labels for paper goods like paper
towels and toilet tissue list the unit price per 100 sheets
instead of per 100 square feet as do other stores.
It's inaccurate. Sheet sizes vary. Converting unit pricing
from per 100 sheets to per 100 square feet is difficult
to do in the aisle of the Target store.

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I suggest you avoid using paper towels. They are expensive compared to
cloth towels (including washing the towels), and they are not
environmentally friendly.

 


That's interesting. The model regulation for unit pricing states that if the
product is sold on the basis of units ("100 sheets"), then the unit price is
quantity 1. OTOH, if the product is sold on the basis of area, then the unit
price needs to be related to area.

http://ts.nist.gov/WeightsAndMeasures/upload/12_IV_UnitpricReg-06-H130-FINAL.pdf

So the question is: what are the units on the package itself?

And of course, states are free to amend, modify or ignore the model regulation.

 dont@bother.com (Robert Neville) wrote in


Not that I spend a lot of time examining packages of paper towels, the
ones I remember have both the number of sheets and the number of
square feet of product.

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 Wed, 25 Jun 2008 20:49:58 -0700 (PDT) from the zak

But think about when you use them -- you don't tear off X square feet
of paper towel, you tear off one (or two). To me it makes sense to
compute unit price per towel because that's price per use.

Someone else said "don't use paper, use cloth". I agree in principle,
but in 40+ years I've never found a cloth towel that does anywhere
near as good a job of drying as paper. I'm willing to try something
new if it really works. Anyone have any practical suggestions?

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