A tale of three bottles

Aspirin 140 - 125 - 100

These three bottles of aspirin were bought over the past couple of years at a local dollar store.  During that that time, the price has remained the same - one dollar per bottle.  A closer look at the labels tells a different story.  The quantity in each bottle has gone down.

Some numbers:

Price per aspirin:

$1.00 for 140 aspirin = $$0.007143 = 0.715 cents each

$1.00 for 125 aspirin = $0.008 = 0.8 cents each

$1.00 for 100 aspirin = $0.01 = 1 cents each

If the quantity remained the same but the price went up:

140 aspirin (at 140 price per) = $1.00

140 aspirin (at 125 price per) = $1.12

140 aspirin (at 100 price per) = $1.40

100 aspirin (at 140 price per) = $0.72

100 aspirin (at 125 price per) = $0.80

100 aspirin (at 100 price per) = $1.00

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Smallification in progress!

Sign of the tomatoes

Plum Tomatoes 59 </ LB

The plum tomatoes are your everyday tomatoes from a truck farm in New Jersey.  The sign is not.  A lot of thought and talent went in to creating that:  the "O"-s are little tomatoes, the letter color is almost  the same color as the tomatoes, some of the letters are shaped like tomatoes, and, there is the innovative use of the "<" and "|" to represent the "cents" symbol.

Spice price

Ground black pepper on red and grey background

From left to right, the price was 68 cents (for 2 1/4 ounces), 88 cents (for 2 ounces), and, one dollar (for 1 1/4 ounces).  Those are from about 2013 to 2017.