Pets at home - amusing pricing structure !

[meddyg]

'Is this some sort of promotion?' I asked the assistant.

Turns out the (millionaire-by-now) owner of Pet@Home went to my school. Bad at maths ? I can't remember.

[hellymedic]

Are 'Full Pigs' Ears' different from plain 'Pigs' Ears'?

I've seen similar pricing anomalies on the Sainsbury's website, where the big pack is worse value. Shopping online makes it easier for me to check these things.

[PaulF]

I've got a colleague who can make a pigs ear our of anything for far less than that.

[Basil]

When I lived in Brum, the local co-op had small 250gm packs of spaghetti priced at less than half that of the same brand 500gm packs for a couple of years.
Just meant we had to buy several small packs.

[Ham]

Sorry, did someone say something?

[sojournermike]

They all seem expensive.

The supermarket favorite is the twin pack of cheese sat next to the single block for just under twice the price. However, when you check the weights the single block is 400g and the twin pack is 2 x 350g. One particular brand, named to suggest it comes from a city with an important church building, ‘excels’ at this malpractice.

[T42]

Me Da used to talk about making a pig's ear out of it when I screwed something up, e.g. simple arithmetic. Suspect Victorian euphemism, as in wheatear.

[Basil]

Probably from the biblical (I think) reference about not being able to make a silk purse from a sow's ear.

[rogerzilla]

I thought the ears went into Swedish meatballs, along with the eyelids and anuses.