On 2015-07-20 2:35 PM, sf wrote:

>>> It
>>> wouldn't be unheard of to have two sets of pricing: by the piece and
>>> by the lb.
>>
>> It wouldn't. That would be one of the craziest ideas I can imagine in a
>> store, selling bananas by the piece then they might be cheaper by the
>> pound or vice versa?
>>
>
> It's done. Buy one, pay the singles price (high). Buy more than one,
> pay by the pound. Either way, the store is not losing any money.
>

No? Any place I have seen bananas sold by the piece they were a lot more
expensive than buying them by the pound. If I were a customer faced
with having to buy by the piece instead of by the pound and paying more
for the same banana I would be ticked off.