Comparison Chaos:

I don’t know how many of you are like this, but I am. My parents, mostly my mom, have taught me to comparison shop before making any purchase. It is always best to be an informed shopper in a consumer market where the buyer normal gets taken advantage of. So this has been my practice over the years.

However, this past Wednesday I ran into a comparison shopping issue that had me absolutely baffled. I was in the grocery store looking to buy some ground beef for the TP dorm guy’s night cookout. I was doing my frugal duty trying to figure out how to get the most for less. The problem that I had was that the weights on two different items were in different measurement systems!

Now, I realize that I should remember the conversions from math, but I couldn’t for the life of me remember at the moment. I’m standing there in the store baffled that I am even in this predicament. I mean, this is Canada is it not? Last time I filled my gas tank up I was charge per liter, not gallon. If you’re gunna measure your meat in both pounds and kilograms on separate packages, give me the choice to fill my tank on gallons!