Reese's Pieces Peanut Butter in a Crunchy Shell Candy, Box 4 oz

The candy itself is amazing, it’s great no issues. But what I do take issues with are these crazy marketing and advertising schemes. I like to buy the 4 ounce box mainly because of the price $1.24. I get that packaging can dictate profit or loss to some extent , the cost to manufacture it, it’s shape and size or mass and what kind of space it’ll take up in shipping or on a retail shelf. is it renewable, biodegradable, pliable or rigid if it has a mat or gloss finish, does it hang on display or sit on a shelf ? Just some of the many things that can contribute to costs that may be deferred onto me the customer and is part of the system and I get it but the example I’ll give you is taking things to far and it’s not only happening with this product it’s a tact employed across the board to increase profits. Now I also get bulk buying or buying power, the more you buy the cheaper it can be. Sometimes But not here. There is a different price per ounce for each package but it’s not necessarily more cost less, the prices are all over the place . And I am only discussing price as they relate to Walmart, in store and online, no third party.. A 39 ounce bag $14.84 which is 38.1 cents per ounce A 35.7 ounce bag is also $14.84 which is 41.6 cents per ounce A 9oz bag is $4.98 which is 55.3 cents per pound. There are more examples but the most egregious is the 4.8 ounce bag which cost $2.98 bringing the per ounce total to a whopping 61.3 cents per ounce. Almost doubling the cost of the 4 ounce box at 31.0 cents per oz , for the same exact product, one in a box, one in a bag, one sitting on a shelf, one hung from a display rod. Now would a car dealership stay in business or not make the news? If they had two identical cars, one selling for double the cost of the other on the same lot? I’d like the commission from selling the more expensive of the identical models. Many of us never even check to compare prices.