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$5 a dozen: major egg companies may be using avian flu to hike US prices, new report finds
(www.theguardian.com)
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What, price gouging, on eggs? What will they think of next, toilet paper? No wait, I bet they haven't thought of making the package look the same, but put less product in it and charging the same? No wait, what if they changed the package and put less in it and charged more?
Nah .. that will never work.
I was shopping a few weeks ago and noticed that every single package said something like '5 times as much as a standard roll' or 10 times or 20 times. Nothing said it was a standard roll. Some quick math told me that they all have their own definition of what a standard roll is too.
Toilet paper math is the worst math.
For shits and giggles, check out the dimensions of a sheet.
Nice, Shits and giggles
I've noticed that 2x rolls of toilet paper usually have the most sheets per roll. 3x rolls tend to lean in to the fact that they are 3 play and use a standard 1 ply roll as their base point so they have the same sheet count. 2x rolls seem to use a standard 2 ply roll as their base so the standard roll is the same sheet count as a 1 ply roll but actually has close to double the sheet count of the 3x rolls. It's weird.
I usually look at square feet.