Last Year on the Green · July: Price per Hundred Grams
The idea: compare the price per hundred grams, not the price of the pack; then compare the price of what you will actually use.
Read it
Who is in this book
- Redline Never sign anything unread, and tell a real trap from an ordinary term from ClauseDojo
- Danya a child of the Green Asks "how do we know?"
- Widen One number means little without something to compare it with from NewsForge
- Marcus A budget is a plan for what the money is for, before it arrives from LedgerQuest
- Tara a child of the Green Listens longest, speaks last
Every recurring character has a short tune, so you can tell who is on stage before a word is said. The tunes play only when you tap, and the Reading Access sound switch turns them off.
The Honest Page
Which parts of this story are true, stretched or made up?
True
- In shops, the unit price is the price for one unit of measure, such as per kilogram, per litre or per hundred grams. It is usually printed on the shelf tag below the product, next to the price of the whole pack. Source
- Shrinkflation is when a product gets smaller while its price stays the same, so you pay more for each gram without the price on the pack changing. Source
- In the case, £3.75 for 750 grams is 50p per 100 grams and £2.25 for 500 grams is 45p; 90p for 1kg is 9p and 55p for 500 grams is 11p; £1.50 for 250 grams is 60p, 90p for 120 grams is 75p, and £1.50 for the 120 grams actually eaten is £1.25. A pound for 300 grams of biscuits is about 33p per 100 grams; a pound for 250 grams is 40p.
Stretched
- In the case, every shelf tag shows a clear unit price in the same unit. What we simplified: Real shelf tags sometimes use different units for similar things, such as per 100 grams on one and per kilogram on the next, or per item on a multipack. It is worth checking you are comparing the same unit before you decide.
Made up
- The supermarket, its prices, Tara's £30 list, Juno, Mr Ahmed and Tara's mum's rule are made up. Unit prices and shrinkflation are real.
Tara’s sentence
The case stops where Tara speaks. Write the sentence you would have said. It stays on this device.
Kept.
Your sentence lives on this device. Nothing is sent anywhere.
Ring the hammer for someone
Pick this book for someone younger. The link carries only the book, and it will wait for them on the Green.