I was at the drug store and wants to pick up some coke zero.
While at that aisle, I noticed that the price for a 2L coke was ~$1.80, while the price for a 1L (half as much coke) was slightly more at ~$2.20.
Can someone explain this pricing scheme to me? Do some fools actually walk into that aisle and decide to buy the 1L bottle? or even more hilariously, multiple 1L bottles?
I order research chemicals for my chemistry lab and see the same kind of trend all the time. I think it has to do with packaging and shipping. If packaging and shipping for a 1 liter bottle is about the same as a 2 liter bottle then it costs Coke or whoever almost twice as much to sell you two 1 liter bottles as it does to sell you one 2 liter bottle. I guess that doesn't explain why the 1 liter bottle is actually more expensive than the 2 liter bottle, but why smaller packages are more expensive per unit (milliliter, ounce, whatever). So maybe that coupled with a sale on 2 liters led to this confusing price...