Hot Dogs and Hot Dog buns are intentionally sold at different quantities.

This is a marketing thing to get people to buy more shit to make up for the disparity.

Go to a grocery store, look around.

Hot Dogs are sold in quantities of 10, 12, or 24.

And Buns are sold in 6, 8, and maybe 10 or 12.

The point of all of this, is to point out that grocery stores are for profit, and the company that sells things at a grocery store are also for profit, and they’ll optimize their profits to make inconveniences towards you.

Meaning, you’ll be nickeled and dimed for things if you’re not paying attention.

If you’re poor,

You’d save them ketchup packets and use them to refill old ketchup. And you’d buy only the meat and boil hotdogs to eat.

But that’s how things were back in my day, I wouldn’t trust the meat nowadays. Hard to trust anything. Hell, it might not even be meat.

Do you really want to see what they package in your sausage nowadays?

In Closing,

I personally find grocery stores disgusting, because it’s designed in a way to siphon money out of you, with their advanced research into marketing and other works. They’re using psychological tricks and you’re mentally berated with ads to buy their shit that you probably don’t need.

If you don’t believe me, go in with a short grocery list of five items, and then buy those items and leave without buying anything else. Chances are, you’ll fail.

With Inflation on the rise, and people succumbing to their subconscious, entering a grocery store is a Financial death by a thousand cuts, each time you enter.

All a part of the Grocery scam in my opinion.

*Not Valid Financial, Legal, Life, or Any Advice

P.S.

I have great disdain for grocery stores, because if you see the quality of food degrade, prices go up, hidden ghost fees from mismatched prices at checkout, and also realize they dump a lot of their expired goods or up-cycle them at another plant to make another grocery item to be resold for consumption, then you’ll see that this is not healthy nor is it made to benefit consumers.

The amount of waste is staggering, and they’ll have workers intentionally spray water on their trash, or pour expired milk. The same shit they were fine charging you ~$10+ for a few hours ago.

They’re profiting to a degree that makes convenience a surcharge, and boy are they surcharging the fuck out of that convenience, yet they also monopolize and remove other outlets of competition, because -duh- free market means competition to monopolize.