The Mathematically Challenged As A Profit Center

Buy in bulk and pay more at Walmart:

Two at just two cents more than two!

That is, a two pack for $9.58 or two one packs for $9.56.

I don’t know if it’s Walmart setting these prices or Land o Lakes setting this price (for I’ve seen the same thing at the grocery store, where the one pound four stick pack is a couple cents more than the one pound eight one-half stick packs).

However, it does rely on a certain inability to do basic calculations to make it work.

Or haste. Or trusting that big packs are cheaper than small packs.

But still.

People call me cynical. I show you the world, and it is often as I expect.

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