This is totally ridiculous, but with grocery store prices the way they are, it’s worth asking . . .
If you only needed HALF a carrot, would you buy a bag of carrots . . . buy one individual carrot . . . or grab a carrot in the produce section, snap it in half, and just pay for the weight of that piece of a carrot?
There’s a video making the rounds of someone taking a snapped-off chunk of a carrot to the self-checkout. They weigh it, and it comes out to EIGHT CENTS.
(It looks like this is in Australia, but if it’s Australian dollars then this half-carrot would cost LESS . . . FIVE CENTS . . . in American dollars.)
The caption asks, “Is this a hack, or highly unethical behavior?”
Some people are saying this is wasteful . . . because it’s very unlikely that someone else would buy the other half. Others say it’s wasteful to buy MORE than you need, if you won’t use it. And others joke that you should bring a PEELER, and peel them first to save a few pennies.
