Goodness! There is something in Oz with a volume discount.

Shopping in Oz makes me twitch and occassionally burst out into uncontrollable chuckling. Australians don't get the joke, they've live here their whole life so it's perfectly normal to them.

Australian products do not offer volume discounting. You can buy various products in various sizes/quantities, but your price per item or per g/kg remains typically the same. What I find strange is that the advertising on the product even bothers to use terms like "value pack". Value pack?? just where is the value in 6 for $2.95, 12 for $5.90, or a 24 "value pack" for $11.80? When there is a discount, it's rarely even 1%. Competitors confuse matters by ensuring products are offered with different volumes, weights, or quantities. The ACCC (Australian Competition and Consumer Commission) has recently stepped in and started requiring retailers, particularly grocery retailers to display prices per unit or per 100g as applicable. Perhaps a few Australians will start to question why a retailer sells three different sizes for each brand and variety of toothpaste for virtually the same price per 100g.

However, I have finally found something sold in Australia where buying in volume does have a noticeable effect on price. Paint and the like. While shopping for floor finishes for my stair project I was shocked to see floor coverings sold in 1, 4, and 10L containers, for $30, $65, and $105 respectively.

Unbelievable.