This may vary by state law. Everybody seems to do it in Michigan. I believe the unit pricing may be a requirement for the shelf edge sticker IF you don't want to stamp the price on every item.
Thus it trades one cost for another. --- On Sat, 2/28/09, Jeremiah MacGregor <[email protected]> wrote: > From: Jeremiah MacGregor <[email protected]> > Subject: [USMA:43297] Re: discussion of Food Marketing Institute objections > to metric-only labeling option > To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[email protected]> > Date: Saturday, February 28, 2009, 10:19 AM > Unit pricing may be "built in", but it is still a > cost passed on to the consumer. When you are competing in > a tough market you lower your costs as much as possible and > thus things like unit price labels are not used. The > stores that sell goods at a lower cost because they have > less frills do a better business then those that try to be > fancy. Obviously not having unit price labels is not > hurting the business in the stores I visit. > > Another point is that unit price labels does not help you > compare prices between stores, just different brands in a > store. In many cases a store will offer a sale on a > particular brand that makes the unit pricing ineffective. > > Jerry
