On Mon, 20 Jul 2015 15:03:03 -0400, Dave Smith
> wrote:

> 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.
>

That's what I said. Your choice is to buy two of them if you want to
pay by the pound and if you make that choice, you'll be shelling out
more cash than the single price for one is. If you don't like it,
then take your banana business elsewhere.

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sf