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This sign was spotted by SOOPOO at the Loose Caboose bar, just west of the Palms. Picture by the Wizard.

A tax on the math-challenged beer drinker.

Weird, I just walked by there to do laundry at Wizard of Suds and remember looking at the exact same sign. I don't understand why anyone would want to drink 16 oz. of Miller Lite anyway.

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Quote: FarFromVegas

A tax on the math-challenged beer drinker.

And it's at a tax rate a lot higher than the tax on the math-challenged cheese eater:
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Looks like a bit of reverse-marketing to me, and kind of clever. Customer thinks the bar owner thinks they are an idiot so more likely to buy the 16oz, which for whatever reason the bar is pushing. Sort of like the $12 cocktail than nobody buys but it makes the $5 one look appealing.

Bar owner may be being smart here?

Look at the attention it gets!

Quote: DJTeddyBear

And it's at a tax rate a lot higher than the math-challenged cheese eater:
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This isn't as bad as the Miller Lite. You are in fact saving .90 cents. On the Miller Lite, there is no reason to even spend the $4.00.

Quote: FinsRule

This isn't as bad as the Miller Lite. You are in fact saving .90 cents. On the Miller Lite, there is no reason to even spend the $4.00.

On the cheese, you're spending more, per pound, to get the store brand than the name brand.

On the Miller lire offer, you're spending a lot more for a little extra of the identical product.

Oh, I agree that the beer offer is far stupider, but they're both stupid.

Of course if you are drinking more than 16ounces your purchase option is obvious. Just for kicks, how many 20 ouncers do you think they sell in a night? I'm betting it is NOT zero!

Quote: DJTeddyBear

On the cheese, you're spending more, per pound, to get the store brand than the name brand.

On the Miller lire offer, you're spending a lot more for a little extra of the identical product.

Oh, I agree that the beer offer is far stupider, but they're both stupid.

Well, I didn't know that it was the store brand, so that makes a bit of a difference.

So to get eighty ounces its Ten Dollars and the waitress has to appear five times.
OR its Sixteen Dollars and Four Trips.
Seems the first option is better ... but its still Miller Lite.
I have no way of figuring out 2 divided by 16 versus 4 divided 20.

Quote: SOOPOO

Of course if you are drinking more than 16ounces your purchase option is obvious. Just for kicks, how many 20 ouncers do you think they sell in a night? I'm betting it is NOT zero!

Once the patrons are drunk enough, the waitress could probably ask, "Would you like a small 16oz drink, or the big one?". I'm sure they sell their share of 20 ounce drinks.

I think the determining factor would be speed of service.

When you ask the waitress for a(nother) beer, let's assume it takes the same amount of time from the asking to the receiving, no matter the size of the beer. We can further assuming that you would drink the smaller beer in a shorter amount of time than the larger beer. Thus, you would spend proportional more time waiting for a smaller beer than you would for a larger beer. I'm not a beer drinker, but 4 ounces seems like a small amount to not make a difference, although some people might argue that 4 ounces is a significant amount to not want to wait longer.

Another factor would be who you are out drinking with. If you're out with some friends, and they all figure out that the smaller beers are cheaper, then your best option is to be the only person ordering the larger beers. Then, when you split up the tab at the end of the night, not taking into account who drank what, then your friends will be paying a proportionally larger amount than you will.

Further, if you just want to be annoying, even if the tab isn't being split up, when out with friends, if they are all ordering the smaller beers, you order the larger beers. The waitress will only appear when all the beers are empty to ask about refills, and thus you will be able to drink more and more often than your friends.

Quote: teddys

Weird, I just walked by there to do laundry at Wizard of Suds and remember looking at the exact same sign. I don't understand why anyone would want to drink 16 oz. of Miller Lite anyway.

I agree with Teddy, the biggest problem is that they are selling Miller Lite.

For those who miss the sign, I'm sure a good deal of them will buy the 20 oz. When I'm at a restaurant and I'm offered a 16 oz or a 23 oz, I rarely ask what each costs, I just opt for the 23 oz, assuming that I'll get at least as good a deal as the 16 oz.

I see it often at Walmart where a larger package costs more per ounce than the smaller package. I thinks it's a psychology play; people assume that the larger package is a better deal.

Quote: CrystalMath

I see it often at Walmart where a larger package costs more per ounce than the smaller package. I think it's a psychology play.

I don't think it's psychology.

It might cost more to produce the larger package. They have to stop the assembly line, load the larger containers, etc. etc. etc.

If the larger item doesn't sell very many, then it actually does cost more to produce and distribute.

Years ago the laundry companies used to have these huge boxes that were really difficult to lug home and when unit pricing labels became law showing those large boxes were often more expensive than the more manageable ones, tv crews found willing complainers quite readily.

Bars sell their products based on the atmosphere, the size of the TV screen, the trivia contests, the waitress's assets, the temperature of the beer, the amount of ice in the bucket, etc. etc. ... its rarely on the unit price of the beer (or in the case of Miller Lite, the unit price of the swill).

Lets not go crazy here...Miller is one of the better domestic beer choices...but LITE....that's like making LITE cocaine...
Fwiw: MGD is like $1 per 16oz bottle in stores...

Say what you want about miller lite,
It's the fourth most popular beer in the US
(both coors light and bud light are better sellers) and eighth in the world.
They're laughing all the way to the bank on poor taste.

Wrong items circled... the orange $8.24/lb sign says it all.
Typical fishing here confusing "saving" versus "spend less". Next topic....

i remember at the bar i used to go to back in indiana, everyone threw a fit when they raised the price of the 32oz beer from $3.00 to $3.50. all it ended up doing though was take a $1 out of the bartenders hands and put it in the owners hands instead.