Talk:Loss leader/Archives/2014

Printer ink and human blood

I moved a sentence from the section on inkjet printers here. It is verifiable, but not necessarily notable, and it seems to imply some very disreputable things about printer manufacturers that may not be warranted. See below:

In fact, the ink is sometimes sold for more than human blood.

I cannot speak for the price of blood (it cost's nothing here in the UK). But printer ink is certainly a huge cost. Just grabbing a couple of cartridges from stock, 19 ml of ink costs 19.99. That is £1052.10 per litre (or £3982.63 ($6629.81) per US gallon for our colonial friends). This does not include the cartridge itself because the ink quantity and price given is the difference between the regular and XL versions of the cartridge. DieSwartzPunkt (talk) 10:51, 1 April 2014 (UTC)

Question is:is the price you quote the price of ink or the price of the cartridge plus ink? Here in the states at least, one can buy generic refill kits and there are systems to replace cartridges with external "tanks" to supply ink to the print head, allowing you to buy ink in bulk. There are also various outfits offering generic brand cartridges for many brand name printers at discount prices. Your comparison of the price for a cartridge is kind of like me saying it cost me $25,000 for a tank of gas (the price of the new car I bought recently which included a full tank of gas). It probably would have cost me about $30-40 to fill it up at the then current price. And by the way, that would be petrol for you guys on the other side of the pond.173.202.242.209 (talk) 14:09, 28 July 2014 (UTC)

Perishable Food?

Sugar does not strike me as perishable food. Is there any evidence for sugar being priced under cost? And it's not clear that milk is placed in the back to get people to buy things. Snakesonaplane1988 (talk) 18:41, 10 September 2014 (UTC)