{"id":14179,"date":"2015-01-08T10:46:37","date_gmt":"2015-01-08T16:46:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=14179"},"modified":"2015-01-08T10:46:37","modified_gmt":"2015-01-08T16:46:37","slug":"the-mathematically-challenged-as-a-profit-center","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2015\/01\/08\/the-mathematically-challenged-as-a-profit-center\/","title":{"rendered":"The Mathematically Challenged As A Profit Center"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Buy in bulk and pay more at Walmart:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/bsgfx\/2pack.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/bsgfx\/2pack.jpg\" width=\"450\" alt=\"Two at just two cents more than two!\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>That is, a two pack for $9.58 or two one packs for $9.56.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know if it&#8217;s Walmart setting these prices or Land o Lakes setting this price (for I&#8217;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).<\/p>\n<p>However, it does rely on a certain inability to do basic calculations to make it work.<\/p>\n<p>Or haste.  Or trusting that big packs are cheaper than small packs.<\/p>\n<p>But still.<\/p>\n<p>People call me cynical.  I show you the world, and it is often as I expect.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Buy in bulk and pay more at Walmart: That is, a two pack for $9.58 or two one packs for $9.56. I don&#8217;t know if it&#8217;s Walmart setting these prices or Land o Lakes setting this price (for I&#8217;ve seen the same thing at the grocery store, where the one pound four stick pack is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14179"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14179\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14181,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14179\/revisions\/14181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}