Fuck them. Australia, put in the law that mandates a kilo price or litre price for everything. Everywhere. Want to know the litre price for perfume? It's marked on the pricetag. Want to know the kilo price for potatoes. Done. You don't have to count them out. Makes it easier to compare prices and know if you have a good deal.

I think it’s as much an indictment on falling maths literacy on the population as a whole when converting unit prices to a per-KG price as “complex”.

But that’s really besides the point of the majority of the article, as this is largely about converting customers online orders. If I’m ordering apples online, I’d want to buy on a per-unit basis (eg. 5 apples for the kids lunchbox), I’d be pretty miffed if I ordered 800g online - expecting 5 and only getting 4 bigger ones.

Still, the way this is currently implemented is pretty piss-poor - there generally shouldn’t be a per-unit price; charge per KG based on the final weight of produce selected, even if you give customers an option to buy per unit. But that involves weighing each line individually, slowing down the entire process and staff labour “shopping” for customers is a massive expense.

They love this ‘make shopping easier’ line, don’t they? They use it every time as the basis for a shitty decision customers don’t want.

It’s as bad as the major political parties ‘young people’ bullshit.