Can someone explain why plain cheerios are always more expensive than honey nut cheerios?
Can someone explain why plain cheerios are always more expensive than honey nut cheerios?
Ingredient-wise, they have the same, except the honey nut has extra crap in it... why is it always cheaper? We're talking a 30% difference per 100g!
Around me it's the flavored ones that are expensive and plain is cheap but of course I hate the plain ones
The flavoured ones have been cheaper than the plain with the promotions that have been going around, but honey nut seems to always be the cheapest. It drives me crazy because not even "no name" branded “o cereal” is as cheap.
The store brand for me ONLY makes plain, no flavors...and I end up buying the name brand with a coupon but I always have to get 2 or 3 boxes at a time for the coupon
Sugar is a binder and filler and cheaper?
Both use sugar, but the honey nut also includes honey and other ingredients. Wouldn't that make it more expensive?
I appreciate your investigative tenacity here! I have an idea, and I think I might be on to something. I don't have a marketing/sales background, but that's the approach I'm taking here. Here's my hypothesis. Plain cheerios and honey nut cheerios do not generally compete with one another in the eyes of the company that sells them - the two are bought by different groups. Plain cheerios has its loyal audience. But honey nut cheerios is purchased by people who may purchase one of the many popular sugary breakfast cereals. So the company charges more for plain just because they can, and the honey nut cheerios are priced more competitively to lucky charms and stuff like that to try to sell more boxes.
I'm probably going grocery shopping this weekend and I'm curious to check the prices out. I'm a toast person :P
I do think that's what's going on, and it's unfortunate for those who just want to save a bit of money.
Still, plain cheerios are still among the most affordable, but that could change on a whim.