Jan 31
A little consumer advocacy
OK, minor venting session. Let's compare this Colgate dental floss purchased here in our local grocery store for about 30 NOK, or about 5 USD.
It looks normal from the outside. One day I had to rethread it, however, and was disappointed to discover that the container is mostly empty. In fact, it only contains 25m of floss. Let's compare that with this 2-pack of 91.4m Reach dental floss that I can buy for roughly the same price in the US.
In other words, in Norway, dental floss costs over SEVEN TIMES more than it does in the US. While most staple foods are only 3-4 times more money, there are many slightly-less-essential items like this one that cost almost an order of magnitude more. Where is the outrage?
