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On 2015-03-23 5:45 PM, wrote:
> On Mon, 23 Mar 2015 17:37:30 -0400, Dave Smith
> > wrote:
>
>> A couple years ago I was in a discount grocery store in Niagara Falls
>> and I spotted a woman pulling a fast one with bundles of asparagus. It
>> is the only time I have ever seen asparagus sold by the bundle rather
>> than by the pound.

>
> It's usually sold in bundles in Aus.
>
>


It is usually sold in bundles here in Canada, but priced by the pound.
That was the only time I ever saw it sold her unit priced by the bundle.
If it had been priced by the pound there would have been no point in
her sleight of hand.