I’ve run across a few items lately that are difficult to determine the actual cost. When I’m at Fred Meyer loading my plastic bag full of off season grapefruit at $2.49 pound I’m always shocked when my bag of five costs nearly 10 bucks. But I’m not shocked enough to change my tactics. I don’t remember the last time I used the scales so I really can’t complain much. Does anyone still use the scales? And spending 10 bucks on some fruit isn’t that big of deal really.
But when the item in question is chocolates and the price per pound is $15 to $27 that same method can get pricey. I recently went into a Rocky Mountain Chocolate Factory to pick out some sugar free chocolates for Kim. Well, for me too but that’s beside the point. Everything looked really good so I started asking for “4 of those, 6 of those, how about 8 of those” as I pointed to the case full of goodies. This is what it must have felt like to find a golden ticket!
How am I supposed to know how many chocolates are in a pound? When I figured I’d asked for about pound I stopped while the kind young women weighed my choices. Total damages? $32! Obviously, I have no sense for how much chocolates weigh as I had picked out just over 2 lbs worth. I wasn’t going to ask her to put them back so I just handed over my Amex and decided to call it Kim’s Valentines day gift.
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