Slighty odd pricing.

On the way home from work, I pottered to the supermarket to pick up some coffee. I needed to get some for home and some for work (as they only provide "instant coffee" :puke: ); at home I use beans which I grind, but don't bother with taking a grinder into the office.

Anyway, I bought an identically sized packet of exactly the same brand - same packaging &c.&c. just one beans one ground. The ground packet was £2.75, the beans were £2.99 - so inorder for the company to do less work (i.e., remove the whole of the grinding process from them) I have to pay an extra 24 pence...

I realise that this is an utterly irrelevant issue in the grander scheme of things, I also understand why this would happen (given supply and demand), but it just seemed a wee bit odd - and where better for odd irrelevance than the D.U. Lounge?

by volume so they charge more for beans to make up for it? I might be making that up, I'm not sure.

and they're the same weight too.

Which rather implies exactly the same amount of coffee - if anything more for ground as there's possibly some waste from the grinding process.

more per gallon than whole milk. And they probably sell the cream!

You're paying for the labor to remove the milkfat.

And hopefully, they do sell the cream. To Starbucks. So that they can whip it and put it on top of my frappucino.:D

It's a volume issue. It's probably more expensive for the company to sequester however many tonnes of beans to be sold unground and package them separately than it is to sell only ground coffee. So you pay an extra 24 pence for a pound, of half kilo, or however it's packaged.