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It also may pay to buy the multiple units. If you buy just one can or package from a multiple priced display, the multiple price divided by the units seldon comes out a whole cent. It will be 9-'/a cents, 8-% cents, 11-Vi cents, or some other fractional figure. The common practice at the checkout counter is to charge the next higher whole cent. In other words, 9-V4 cents becomes 10 cents, 8-% cents becomes 9 cents, and 11-Vi cents, becomes 12 cents.
There are two ways you may look at this. One way would be to say that you are paying a 1 premium amounting to that '■ fraction of a cent for that single ' unit. This fraction of a cent then 1 goes to pay for the time it takes ' the cash register operator to ' figure out those fractions. It does ' take a little more time to check ' you out and you’re paying for it. I
On the other hand, you could figure you hre getting a volume discount by making a multiple 1 unit purchase. Percentage wise, this may be quite significant, especially on smaller unit, lower ticket sales. For instance, if you buy the two of a 2/19 cents multiple unit sale, you pay 9-‘/2 cents a unit, a saving of Vi cent per unit over a single unit purchased at 10 cents. This is a 5 per cent savings or volume discount.
Over time, these savings can
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