• Pyr_Pressure@lemmy.ca
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    6 months ago

    They are probably just rounding up the 3.53 oz to 4 so make it more legible in the tag. It very well may have said 3oz if it had ended up being 3.47oz

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      6 months ago

      That doesn’t sound legal, but then again in the US it’s okay to lie about prices on the label, so lying about weight should be just as fine.

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        6 months ago

        Well there does need to be a cutoff somewhere.

        If you were buying a cake you wouldn’t necessarily need the price to say $.$$ per 30.54 ounces, 31 ounces is accurate enough.

        Yes there is a much bigger difference between 3.5 and 4, but it easily could just be an error in their computer system since most things don’t need to be that accurate.

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          6 months ago

          I don’t see why there needs to be a cutoff? In my country we list exact prices and weights. Of course there’s room for error with the actual weight of the product in some cases, but that’s unrelated to the label itself.

          Listed is how many pieces, total price, as well as price per piece.

          Same with weight, though gram instead of piece, as well as price per kilo, making any sort of conversion easy.

          And same thing with volume.