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Your driving assistance will own car for your use. Service<br />
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umt prices<br />
Thursday, March 24,1977"<br />
by Stuart Crump Jr. when you confront a choice appear on the shelf im- worth it to the consumer? -<br />
Staff Writer like that on the supermarketmediately<br />
next to the product.<br />
shelf.<br />
Quick quiz: Which is<br />
"We have chosen to go with "THE HISTORY has been<br />
cheaper? Six eight-ounce cans BEGINNING THIS week in labeling the product rather<br />
that it works best in those<br />
of tomato sauce at 95 cents or New Jersey you’ll no longer than using the shelf labels areas where it is least needed -<br />
four 15-ounce cans at 99 cents? have to puzzle out the answer because the shelf labels are<br />
- where the shoppers are more<br />
Unless you carry a pocket for yourself. The state’s new very difficult to control," affluent and better educated to<br />
calculator or unless you are a Unit Pricing Law goes into Mayfair Supermarkets understand unit pricing. Inner<br />
mathematical whiz of sorts, effect on Wednesday, March director of operations Robert<br />
city areas where there may be<br />
you might find it difficult to 23. Vignoli explained. Mayfair<br />
a high percentage of Spanish~<br />
decide which is the better buy Under the new law you’d<br />
operates some of the Food- speaking shoppers - areas<br />
need only glance at the label<br />
town stores in the Central where it could conceivably do<br />
which all supermarkets are<br />
Jersey area.<br />
the most good- it doesn’t work<br />
so well.<br />
now required to post either on "There’s a maintenance "Many of the chains and the<br />
or next to every item on the problem with the shelf label,"<br />
PolicyHolders shelves. In the example cited he continued. "Children move<br />
state consumer affairs<br />
¯CALL 6U9-882-0213 above, the label would tell you<br />
division have developed<br />
the label or a clerk might<br />
for insurance that the six eight-ounce cans<br />
programs to help educate the<br />
forget to change it. If a<br />
We Insure everybody cost 31.7 cents a pound,<br />
shoppers to the new<br />
shopper were to pick up a<br />
for<br />
whereas the four t5-ounce product and later change her<br />
program," Mr. Adelman said.<br />
Homeowners and cans cost only 26.4 cents per mind and set it down "One thing unit pricing<br />
Auto Insurance pound.<br />
somewhere else in the store, cannot do is this: If you like a<br />
CAPITAL INSURANCE AGENCY "Many people hear the term and an inspector were to come particular brand of soup and if<br />
o| Merce¢ Co,. Inc. unit pricing and think it refers along right behind her and find you find it is more expensiv<br />
¯1604V, Pennlnglon Rd, to some complicated system" that misplaced item, that per Can than another soup that<br />
Trenlon, N.J. state director of the division of would be a violation under the you do not like as much, it is<br />
consumer affairs Virginia law.<br />
unlikely that you will switch<br />
Long explained recently. "It’s "We have taken the ap- soups. The plan can only be<br />
just the opposite - an aid for proach that we can give the effective if you don’t have a<br />
LAWN- GARDENshoppers<br />
that lets them information to the consumerstrong<br />
product loyalty. Taste<br />
compare prices just by locking with the label on the product is a yery personalized~ thing<br />
SUPPLIES at the tag or label. and at the same time give the .,..: .., -..;,;<br />
price information to the check*<br />
All kinds of "A UNIT PRICE tells you out clerk," he said. "ANOTHER PROBLEM’<br />
has arisen because there has<br />
fertilizers the cost of something per a<br />
been a meatcutters’ strike.<br />
certain unit of measure," she NEW JERSEY Food Council Because of the strike, there<br />
Save with continued. "For instance, president Jay Adelman spoke has been a tremendous<br />
GREENLAWN PLUS meats, most baked goods and of the law’s obvious ad- demand for groceries in the<br />
23 lb. bag detergents are bought by the vantages to the informed non-strock stores.<br />
Save $1.00 pound, most liquids by the consumer, but he also ex-<br />
pint, quart or gallon...<br />
"They’ve been very, very<br />
(Covem 5.0OO ~, h.)<br />
pressed doubts, as have the busy and it has been difficult<br />
"Just looking at the retail<br />
$8.05<br />
supermarket chains, over the for them to gear up to the new<br />
price which is the price you<br />
46 lb. bag<br />
new law.<br />
program. We’re hoping the<br />
pay at the check-eat counter "So far as we know unit director wUl give a little<br />
Save $2.00 doesn’t give you a good pricing has not been much of a leeway to these stores (in<br />
(Covers 10,000 sq. h.) comparison. Because of dlf- success in any of the states in enforcing the program) until<br />
$12.95 fereaces in package size, what which the program has been the labor unrest is over. They<br />
you really need to know to tried," Mr. Adelman said. just don’t have the personnel<br />
691b. Bag compare prices is how much "But from the outset the in. to keep up with unit pricingl"<br />
Save$3.RO equal amounts of two products dustry has told the various he said.<br />
{Cavern 15,OOO sq. h.) cost," she said.<br />
governmental officials that we He also added that "100 per<br />
$]6.95<br />
Unit pricing itself is not new. will do our utmost to make the cent compliance is impossible<br />
New York supermarkets, for program work in New Jersey. ... for a store which sells 12,000<br />
Pulverized Lime example, have been operating "That means that in order<br />
under a unit pricing law for<br />
different items," and even<br />
80 lb. bag<br />
for us to make it work it has to though the retailers will try to<br />
about two years. As a result, be a workable program. The<br />
$1.15<br />
comply, mistakes are bound to<br />
most of the major chains two go together. The question slip through.<br />
Ton Price $25.95 which have stores in both Newis,<br />
is this program workable?<br />
Granular Lime York and New Jersey have<br />
The NJFC. which<br />
We hope it is butnn one can be represents more than 90 per<br />
been listing unit prices on their certain at this stage. cent of the grocers in the state,<br />
50 lb. bag products in both states. "It is an expensive" has asked the division of<br />
95¢<br />
proposition both for the consumer affairs "’to allow<br />
Ton Price $33.00 SUPERMARKETS HAVE retailers and for the stats and some degree of tolerance" for<br />
(Free pH Tell) been given several ways to various county and local stores which make a con-<br />
comply with the new law. The consumer affairs offices scientious nffort to ’abide by<br />
All Kinds of label may appear directly on (which enforce the law). Our the law, but which might slip<br />
the product itself , or it may real question is, is the expenseup<br />
occasionally.<br />
Lawn Seeds<br />
Belle Mead Special<br />
10 Ibs. $7.90<br />
40-40.20<br />
10 Ibs. $8.90<br />
Royal Green<br />
l0 Ibs. $11.60<br />
Farmingdale Premium<br />
10 Ibs. $13.00<br />
Seed Potatoes<br />
Yellow and white<br />
onion sets<br />
75¢ lb.<br />
Stutlga~t 95¢ lb.<br />
Shallots $L]O Ibs,<br />
All kinds of<br />
reg. & flower<br />
seeds<br />
Bulbs<br />
Deluxe Spring<br />
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