Maybe it’s just me, but it’s not me.
Isn’t $2.00 each the same as 2 for $4.00?
Today as I was shopping for groceries, I saw this sign. I thought it was weird (so of course I snapped it for My Insta Twit Book) its weirdness was because $2.00 each or 2 for $4.00 is the same.
Mathematically speaking.
When I was young, it was always a bit of a discount to buy in bulk. Like buy one for $2.50, get two for $4.00.
Actually, when I was young, it was buy one for $0.60, get 2 for $1.00!
Hey, where’d the cent symbol go? We still have cents! Don’t we?
Okay, I’ll save that thought for another MITB post.
Back to this one.
The sign said $2.00 each or 2 for $4.00.
I can do math! It’s the same thing. It’s still a $2.00 loaf of bread!
I was telling my brother about this and he said that it made sense! Because sometimes it’s not clear how much one is if the sign tells you how much 2 is. Huh! Not clear to who? People who can’t do math! people who can’t add 2 + 2 and get 4?
Side bar: there are 3 types of people in the world; those that can do math and those that can’t!
It also, he said, made it clear that someone doesn’t think he/she/it has to buy two loaves of bread when they only need one. What, the grocery store has a Bread Quota Guard that insists you buy two when you only need one! Have we really come that far in consumerism?
How much do you think they pay, the Bread Quota Guard, I mean? Do they have benefits? A pension plan?
Where was I?
Oh yes, here I was. If pricing $2.00 bread is so confusing, then keep it simple sweetie and just mark the overpriced loaf of bread as $2.00 a loaf! And minus the 2/$4.00 sign.
See, I can do math!