Why don food companies make Hot Dog, & Hamburger buns for 2 people?
At my grocery store, the store-brand hot dog and hamburger buns cost about $1.29 for a package. At that, the overhead of packaging and dealing with them is pretty high. Subdividing the package any further would kill what little profit margin they have. (Commodity items like this are usually priced very close to cost.) The more expensive name brand ones can run on the order of $3, with considerably higher profit margins, but they still don’t want to take up any more shelf space than they already do. Shelf space in the grocery store is at a premium; they can’t stock every product they’d want to. Stocking a separate batch of units of 4 buns, in addition to the batches of 8 or 12 buns, would use up space. Things don’t pack efficiently in a grocery store, and they’d have to allocate a whole segment of shelf even if only a few people wanted them. Ultimately, it just comes down to demand: not enough people have asked for it. Let your grocery store manager know you’d want it, and maybe he’ll f
