@DerangedRoleModel:
Have you tried zooming in and enhancing the picture to see the quantity? I heard that works really well...

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Smashville

@triscuitbiscuit: Does this look like CSI: Miami?

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Digitizer

@triscuitbiscuit: Wow, it's AMAZING what a little detective work will do. I zoomed in, and ALAS, between the rough pixelation it looks like the generic brand reads either a 34 or 14 (now of course at the price, those would have to be some huge bags). On the other side (the right side) the major brand has numbers on it that look to my aging eyes to be a 30? 32? I don't know, what do you see? I mean, if you heard enhancement works so well, I figured you might be able to enlighten everyone else with the truth.

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Oranges w/ Cheese hates what Christmas has become

@DerangedRoleModel: And as always you pay more for the \"convenience\" of a smaller package.

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morganlh85

@DerangedRoleModel: You don't have to see the picture, just read the article.

\"...which are actually a bit smaller than the Glad sandwich bags, are nearly a dollar more expensive.\"

November 29, 2009 2:17 AM

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ablestmage

The picture is the real article, not the commentary. the vast majority of department store price-confused picture-snappers can be easily investigated online if the clarity of the pictures (and thus, the numbers on the labels) were easily seen. I could just as easily take a blurry picture of an elephant and claim that your mother is a gray, big-eared, slow-moving blob. Who cares what the picture is of, indeed.

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bender123

@morganlh85:

they are referring to the size of the bags...not the quantity of bags inside the box. Our local staores have similar products and the sandwich bags usually have far fewer bags than the snack backs...you get almost twice as many in the snack bags.

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Aaronjk

@bender123: The OP still needs to compare sandwich bags to sandwich bags and snack bags to snack bags.

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GitEmSteveDave_Isn'tFreshPerked

@morganlh85: Uhhh, bags can be smaller, and still have more BAGS inside the box.

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floraposte

@GitEmSteveDave_Isn'tFreshPerked: That was my thought. They're actually two very different kinds of bags; the snack bags are about half the size of sandwich bags, and they usually come in a higher number per box as well.

And you'll always be Fresh Perked to me.

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ChrisC1234

@DerangedRoleModel: $2.89 for the Winn-Dixie bags and $1.99 for the Glad bags.

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winshape

\"You never know what goes on in the mind of a grocery store.\"

Umm...profit?

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TheDustball

@winshape: Profit is not until Phase 3. This appears to be more in the Phase 2 category.

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dorianh49

@TheDustball: ???

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TheDustball

@dorianh49: It's a tried-and-true business plan for the any successful business.

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dorianh49

@TheDustball: I know; that's why I put the question marks there :)

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davere

I've noticed this at Target (of course) several times.

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GitEmSteveDave_Isn'tFreshPerked

My question is to bag make up. Snack bags would seem to be thicker than sandwich bags because snacks can be pointy, while sandwiches are only pointy if cut that way.

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katstermonster

@GitEmSteveDave_Isn'tFreshPerked: I don't like pointy snacks. I don't believe in triangles or rectangles.

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subtlefrog

@katstermonster: Don't believe in them as in you don't believe they exist? Because I could send you some to prove their existence. Or we could create a mathematical proof of Doritos.

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pecan 3.14159265

@katstermonster: Not even Bugles, so you can make yourself witch fingers?

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Kimaroo - 100% Pure Natural Kitteh

@pecan 3.14159265: OMG.. I love Bugles. They are so fun.. and tastey too!

Last night I bought the FlipSide Crackers... pretty good as well.

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nagumi

@Kimaroo - Fortified with Kittydus Purrularis: I have not had a bugle in 15 years.....

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GitEmSteveDave_Isn'tFreshPerked

@Kimaroo - Fortified with Kittydus Purrularis: My one kitteh, Trouble loved anything corn related. Bugles, popcorn, cornbread muffins, etc...

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floraposte

@katstermonster: To me, a 90º angle constitutes a point in a snack, as the issue is the ability to puncture. Discuss.

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subtlefrog

@floraposte: Point: Fritos can have quite sharp points.

Counterpoint: Doritos, with 120 degree angles, and potato chips, which we all know have no angles, are also snack-worthy.

Counterpoint wins.

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Kimaroo - 100% Pure Natural Kitteh

@subtlefrog: Mmmm. Tasty math.

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scoosdad

@GitEmSteveDave_Isn'tFreshPerked: I buy both types of bags (smaller snack size, and the usual sandwich bags) and they're almost always the same thickness of plastic, no matter whose they are.

I vote on the quantity difference between the packaging being the main reason.

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Kuchen

@GitEmSteveDave_Isn'tFreshPerked: Yeah, I'm not sure this is a fair comparison since it's not only a different size bag, but I can't tell from the picture how many bags are in each package. I mean, how much were the Glad snack bags? Are they more expensive than the sandwich bags?

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@Kuchen: Both packs of bags were 50-count. They also didn't have Glad snack bags. I didn't think of a different shape being a reason, though.

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Loias calls you out if you can't RTFA

My only question: Winn-dixie still exists?!

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LastError

@Loias: Indeed they DO still exist. Not as good as they were maybe 10 years ago, particularly with all the cuts in the store brand items, but WD is still kicking around. We used to have them in my area. My family misses WD.

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leastcmplicated

@Loias: i can think of 2 around me, surprisingly one of them is smack between a publix and kroger and still going strong

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RPHP

How many bags are in each package. Maybe Winn-Dixie is giving significantly more bags so that on a per bag basis it is actually cheaper?

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@RPHP: Both packs of bags are 50-count.

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kathyl

I still think the price discrepancy is strange, but it should be noted that you are comparing apples and oranges. Snack size bags and sandwich size bags are two completely different things. Snack size bags are less than half the size of a sandwich bag and are used for a completely different purpose. I don't think it's logical to compare prices on those items.

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idip

@kathyl: Agreed.

Snack bags are typically more expensive. For this reason I actually bought the sandwhich bags myself.

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@DerangedRoleModel: Hm, they didn't post the big picture. Both packs of bags are 50-count.

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@Kuchen: @RPHP: Both packs of bags are 50-count.

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Covertghost

Pretty sure it's because drug dealers used to buy them all so they realized the market was lucrative...

Or something

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bsteimel

better picture please. My cell phone takes better pictures then this. Take your camera out of the sandwich bag before taking the picture.

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@bsteimel: I did send a better picture but it looks like they didn't post it. :D

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JWBrockman

Sandwich bags are more popular, thus they sell more of them at a lesser price. This is like being confused that a size 8A shoe could cost you more than a size 11D, even though you can put more foot in the 11D.

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floraposte

@JWBrockman: Except they don't.

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Rectilinear Propagation

@floraposte: Yeah, I've never seen a size 8 shoe cost more than a size 11 shoe of the same size. In fact, size 11 is usually where the price jump occurs.

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Blueskylaw

Is it because they come in a \"FUN\" size?

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nagumi

@Blueskylaw: I never understood \"fun size\". A \"Fun Size\" mars bar should be DOUBLE the size of a regular one - not smaller!

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mbz32190

Weird...I noticed the same thing a few years ago..the Glad bags, with more in them, were less expensive than the store brand (not winn-dixie). I haven't bought any in at least a year though so this may have been corrected.

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mwc5446

Probably $1.50 coupon deal

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subtlefrog

Winn-Dixie is a scary, scary place - and all I can say is don't worry about the bags. Run the hell away. Back when I lived in Miami, the closest Winn Dixie had a bug zapper in the meat department. It took me the longest time to place that noise, then I saw it. Made me 1. happy I was veg and 2. sure to never return.

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P=mv

@subtlefrog: Winn Dixie is a scary place. Don't ever buy fresh stuff from them. Stay away from anything in the meat and frozen departments and only buy from the nonperishables if you can't go somewhere else.

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mamalicious

Why would you take a picture comparing two different KINDS of items? One contains snack bags; the other regular sandwich bages.

I would like to see the prices of the other snack bags along with the Winn-Dixie snack bag - then I could really compare apples to apples here.

As it stands, it's a very odd post by Megan, since it doesn't really make sense.

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West Coast Secessionist

The full size image, posted by the OP (not me!!) earlier in the thread. IDK why the editor only posted the ridiculous postage stamp one.

If you wanna see it even bigger: [i261.photobucket.com]

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LastError

Two different kinds of items. Two different prices.

OMG! What if Consumerist figures out that grocery stores are FULL of different items which have different prices!?

It's the biggest story of all time!!!