{"id":15098,"date":"2016-02-01T11:54:16","date_gmt":"2016-02-01T17:54:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=15098"},"modified":"2016-08-28T19:27:56","modified_gmt":"2016-08-29T00:27:56","slug":"its-a-tax-on-short-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2016\/02\/01\/its-a-tax-on-short-people\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s A Tax On Short People"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Spotted at the Walmart:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/bsgfx\/taxonshortpeople.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/bsgfx\/taxonshortpeople.jpg\" width=\"350\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The boxes on the top shelf contain 44 bags.  The boxes on the middle shelf contain 36 bags.  <em>At the same price<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, one has force-flex bags and the other has scented bags, but I saw the same thing for each corresponding type (that is, there were boxes of 36 scented bags for $6.98 and boxes of 44 force-flex for $6.98, but they weren&#8217;t together for a quick snap.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps it&#8217;s a tax on people who don&#8217;t look at the boxes and shelf prices carefully.<\/p>\n<p>All I know is that it made me pause for longer than it should have when I was trying to just get some garbage bags.  I looked like a discerning refuse containment customer as I looked very carefully to see what the heck was going on and why the different-sized boxes had the same price.  And I couldn&#8217;t find an answer.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s probably that the smaller boxes will be replacing the larger at the same price, but they&#8217;ve got both slotted till they sell out of the larger quantity boxes.  I think so because I&#8217;m cynical.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spotted at the Walmart: The boxes on the top shelf contain 44 bags. The boxes on the middle shelf contain 36 bags. At the same price. Yes, one has force-flex bags and the other has scented bags, but I saw the same thing for each corresponding type (that is, there were boxes of 36 scented [&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-15098","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15098","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=15098"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15098\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15099,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15098\/revisions\/15099"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}