"Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing." (granfury)
04/11/2018 at 00:07 • Filed to: None
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"Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing." (granfury)
04/11/2018 at 00:07 • Filed to: None | 0
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I was over at Target today to get some T-shirts and saw something interesting on pricing. On one brand the prices were all the same, but the quantities of shirts varied by size. If you bought small, you got 6 plus 3 free. Medium and large were 6 plus 2, XL was just 6, and with 2XL, something I’d never seen before in T-shirts, you only got 5 for the same price.
I guess it makes sense, sort of, but I’d never seen this before. The labor is pretty much the same regardless of size, and I can see a little extra in materials on the bigger shirts, but I didn’t think it would be enough to warrant giving away free shirts. Is this punitive?
E92M3
> Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing.
04/11/2018 at 01:37 |
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I noticed something weird with Tide Pods the other day. If you buy them in the big orange plastic fishbowl container they were 28 cents per pod. If you buy the refill packs (same number of pods but in a plastic bag) they were 37 cents per pod.
Svend
> Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing.
04/11/2018 at 05:10 |
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A company did something similar in the U.K. a few years ago. They started pricing bras by amount of material meaning that the largest cup size was equivalent to a few dollars more than the smallest cup size. Things did not go well for that company.
I could see what they were getting at and to me made sense, but sometimes making sense, doesn’t make good business sense.
ThePlasticOne - no diggities expressed nor implied.
> E92M3
04/11/2018 at 06:33 |
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Making money off the perception of saving money.
MasterMario - Keeper of the V8s
> Svend
04/11/2018 at 06:39 |
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Except most of the cost for clothing comes from labor not material
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Svend
> MasterMario - Keeper of the V8s
04/11/2018 at 06:48 |
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It was part of the reasoning they put on it.
https://www.theguardian.com/money/2009/may/08/marks-and-spencer-bras-facebook
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Store backs down from charging extra for larger bra sizes after consumer-led Facebook protest against the ‘tit-tax’
Marks & Spencer said today it would stop charging more for larger bras after more than 14,000 consumers joined a Facebook group calling for an end to its differential pricing.
Unlike most retailers, M&S charged £2 more for bras with a cup size above DD – a cost described by the Facebook group Busts 4 Justice as a “tit-tax”.
The company defended its position saying the charge reflected the extra cost of producing a bra for larger bust sizes, and that other specialist lingerie retailers charged £60 or more for larger cups.
However, it has now backed down and today took out full-page adverts in the press to tell consumers that from tomorrow, all bras will cost the same. Under the headline “We boobed” the adverts say: “We were wrong, so as of Saturday 9th May the storm in a D cup is over.”
In a news interview the CEO of M&S put the higher cost as the amount of material.
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MasterMario - Keeper of the V8s
> Svend
04/11/2018 at 08:26 |
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Yea sure a larger bra does cost extra due to more material...but that extra cost is most likely measured in tenths of a percent. So he’s not lying by saying they cost extra to make but I guarantee they don’t cost close to £2 more to make.
Pickup_man
> E92M3
04/11/2018 at 12:26 |
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That’s common for basically everything though. One thing I actually like about Walmart is that they usually put the cost per unit on the price sticker so you can see which size is the better deal.
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E92M3
> Pickup_man
04/11/2018 at 13:11 |
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Yeah you definitely have to pay attention to those labels.