RunningBum
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I saw this once, a long, long time ago. It maybe even happened a few times at one place. Maybe it was to attract customers and hope to get more regulars, since they may hope that people stop at the same place out of habit on their commute when prices are the same, so they were trying to get some new regulars. Or maybe it was during a time of big price fluctuations, and the delivery time for the mid-grade came during a cheaper swing, and the opposite for low octane. It's also possible that the mid grade had ethanol, and the low grade did not.I could swear that once at a gas station, the low price was on the mid grade, not the lowest octane grade. I did a double take, and filled up with mid grade.
I wonder how many people saw the lowest price on the big sign, assumed it was the low octane, and just grabbed the low octane nozzle? It would be the natural thing to do. This was before I had a camera phone, or I would have snapped a picture.
-ERD50
It could be something similar for the silly string in the OP. The store gets a better deal on it, and starts selling the single cans more cheaply. They already had a stock of the 3-packs and don't get around to re-pricing them. Or vice versa, they are raising the price, and first restock the 3-packs at the higher price, and don't bother raising the single can prices until they restock, or maybe they won't even restock it. Not really a big deal on such a small price item. Maybe it's even a marketing test, where they are trying to see if they even need to offer a better price on any bulk packaged items.