"jmcquown" > wrote in
:

> Rich wrote:
> > "zxcvbob" > wrote in message
> > ...
> >> Barbtail wrote:
> >>
> >>>
> >>> side note-
> >>> And what's with all the automatic *rain* in the produce aisle
> >>> now-a-days? I
> >>> guess it's good or they wouldn't go the expense *laughs*. I feel
> >>> silly shaking the water out of my romaine lettuce in the store but
> >>> I am not gonna pay
> >>> 2 bucks a pound for water.
> >>>
> >>
> >> It sounds like you've already figured out the answer. Spraying with
> >> water keeps the weight up, and most produce is sold by the pound.
> >>
> >> Bob
> >
> > I got to thinking one day, while in the produce department, that even
> > though one of those little plastic bags off the roll doesn't add much
> > weight to my purchase, a roll of the stuff is pretty heavy. In the
> > long run, the supermarket gets to sell it all at produce per-pound
> > prices. A profit center?
> >
> > --Rich
>
> No law says you have to put the produce in the bags.
>
> Jill
>
>
>

Also each of those bags weighs so little that the cheap scales used to
weigh your produce doesn't register it. In fact the scale would would be
effected more by a humidity or temperature change more readily than the
weight of the plastic bag.


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