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0 pointspanpanna6y ago0 comments

In 99% this is _not_ a EU thing.

Maybe some German law?? Or just common practice in Germany?

Edit: I think I confused your response with parent. I understand price/kg is a thing although I didn't knew it was mandated by law. What I don't understand is being forced to use some odd unit like price per 500g.

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benibela6y ago

I do not remember ever seeing price per 500g

divbyzer06y ago

Yep, every item I see is price per kg. I can't think of exceptions.

Reason0776y ago

In the UK it is typically either per 100g or per kg. Or per litre or per unit. Depends on the category of product.

supermatt6y ago

Its unit price as required by directive 98/6/EC.

A unit is how the product is customarily sold (singly) in the member state.

So for items typically sold as 500g in Germany, all items of that type in Germany would be labelled with 500g as the unit size for comparison. That same product may typically be sold in the UK as 1kg, so in the UK they would use 1kg.

Faark6y ago

Are we talking about stuff that can vary in size but isn't weighted? Like kiwi's or cucumbers have a fixed price each while apples or bananas have a kg price. But I don't remember seeing processed food without a kg price.

The only time I remember having difficulty comparing was different formats of toilet paper when our usual brand was out of stock... #rolls × #sheets / pack price was a bit to much for me to do in my head. Yeah, I'm not really complaining.

layoutIfNeeded6y ago

Same in Hungary. Everything has price / kg or litre shown next to the item’s price.

icebraining6y ago

I read panpanna's post as saying that it's not common to have different units, not that there's no price per unit value next to labels.

Moru6y ago

It's at least law in Sweden since a while.

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