{"id":7543,"date":"2013-02-18T09:30:50","date_gmt":"2013-02-17T22:30:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelwyres.com\/?p=7543"},"modified":"2013-02-18T09:30:50","modified_gmt":"2013-02-17T22:30:50","slug":"supermarket-maths-fail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/2013\/02\/supermarket-maths-fail\/","title":{"rendered":"Supermarket Maths Fail"},"content":{"rendered":"

So how exactly does this one work?<\/p>\n

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The normal price is $1.75 for a single unit, so the normal price for two units would be $3.50, right?<\/p>\n

So at “2 for $3”, surely the saving is 50 cents, not 38 cents?<\/p>\n

Also, at the normal price and the special price, the price per 100 grams is listed as “$3.50”. But at the normal price of $1.75, two would actually be $3.50 per 90 grams, since a single unit is shown as “45 grams”.<\/p>\n

Not 50 grams – yet even at the reduced price, it is still $3.50 per 100 grams.<\/p>\n

My head hurts!<\/p>\n

The chocolate was nice though, and I saved 38 cents<\/del> 50 cents.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So how exactly does this one work? The normal price is $1.75 for a single unit, so the normal price for two units would be $3.50, right? So at “2 for $3”, surely the saving is 50 cents, not 38 cents? Also, at the normal price and the special price, the price per 100 grams […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[156,333],"class_list":["post-7543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-musings","tag-coles","tag-mathsfail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7543","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7543"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7543\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}