Whether it’s a signage error or a stacking error, this pile of salt pellets is not what it seems at first blush.
Reader Joe sent this in from at a Home Depot in the Minneapolis area.
The big sign says “50 lbs for the price of 40 lbs.” However, when you look at the stack, only some of the bags say 50 lbs. Many of them say 40 lbs.
Always good to double-check the unit weight and volume to make sure it lives up the the hype!
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Talk about pouring salt in your wounds!
Good thing the salt pellets were being purchased by a well seasoned consumer.
So you should be able to take 5 bags to the front and just pay for 4.
Brilliant. That is exactly what I would do because you’d be following their signage. Then I may contemplate returning 4 bags if I didn’t need that many…
Best is the 50 lbs ones are at the bottom. You’d get quite the workout trying to get the deal!
You clearly have to cut the last bag into quarters and take one. I don’t see the problem here.
The other side of the pallet reads: “40 LB FOR THE PRICE OF 50 LBS!”
I find a lot of things shrivel under enough scrutiny; they’ll even go flaccid.
And then do the “disappearing turtle head” thing.
Aww, turtle is scared!
I think you have a staring problem.
Your turtle is the one with the problem!
I blame The Observer Effect
The observer effect can be overcome by completing the double-slit experiment.
I find the double slit experiment overcomes most turtle-related problems.
We can put the turtle in a box and see what happens then!
Depending on when the turtle stops existing as a superposition of states and becomes one or the other, I suppose it will be hiding…or not hiding.
Like slugs? Slug + NaCl =slug jerky.
Nice. Some idiot probably moved the wrong pallet when they ran low.
I find this most likely.
I buy whatever brand of softener is cheapest. Currently it’s Walmart for about $3+ a bag for generic crystals.
Because 99.9% pure salt is 99.9% pure salt, period.
Pretty much – and at the rate our softener goes through the stuff it wno’t matter until next year anyway.
But that other 0.1% could be important…. What if it was 0.1% lead, mercury, arsenic, as opposed to something that is non or less toxic. =P
True. But, in my experience, that .1% seems to actually matter. I used the cheaper house-brand salt in my softener for a few years, only to have the softener stop softening over time. I discovered that there was a thick, solid slug of salt accumulated at the bottom of the brine well, plugging-up the works and stopping the system from recharging.
Ever since switching back to the Morton salt, I’ve not had the accumulation problem.
YMMV, of course.
Hey, the person who made the sign is dyslexic. Should we really be making fun of them like this? It’s clearly meant to say 40lbs for the price of 50lbs.
The enlarged part of the photo says “40b”, not “40 lb”. I don’t know what “40b” means.
Yes but you can see some bags labeled “50lb” and in the same place on the bag, the “40b” shows up on other bags. Seems logical to conclude that it means it’s a 40 lb bag.
We bought kitchen appliances expecting free delivery. No free delivery. It was something like you pay $50 and they give you a gift card. Every time I saw their free delivery commercials I was irked!
Simple. 40b means one more than 39b. Problem solved.
TOM
I find you always have to take Home Depot sales with a … wait for it …
GRAIN OF SALT!
I win.
We don’t know whether there are additional 5 or 10 lb bags piled up out of camera frame. This story is incomplete.