The Coffee Conundrum
I’m hooked on a specific coffee I can only find online or at a
Danish supermarket where I get 10% off with my discount card.
Lately, the brand switched their 500g packs to 400g ones. Then
the supermarket dangled a special deal on the old 500g packs,
probably to clear them out and nudge us toward paying the same
for less later. That deal sold out quickly. Online, at
Scandinavian products I can still grab multiple 500g packs, and
if I hit their 50€ free shipping mark, it might be worth it. But
who can figure out the price per kilo for four 500g packs with
no shipping versus a 400g pack that’s now 30DKK pricier than
the old 500g used to be? Not me, not without some serious mental
gymnastics. Dealbreaker crunches those numbers fast, showing me
what’s actually the better buy per kilo, in euro.
Norwegian chocolate
- Norwegian: Ja, vi elsker sjokolade
- Swedish: Du gamla du Freia
- Danish: ... og det er Freias salg
You are in Bodø airport and see 1 pack of 220g Freia chocolate
for 49kr. Discount is 4 for the price of 3.
You have the Coop app and find in a Coop Mega, 2 packs of 220g
Freia chocolate for 79kr.
You fire up Dealbreaker. This version of Dealbreaker does not yet
do 4-for-the-price-of-3 discount, so you have to do the math to
get 25%. Enter 49 in the price field (you can change the
currency to kr or ignore the € sign). Then enter 25 in the
discount field.
For the other deal you enter 2 in quantity and 79 in price.
Result: 36.75 in the airport and 39.50 at Coop.
It would have been even trickier to do in your head if the
pieces had different weights.
I will update my app with the X-for-the-price-of-Y function asap.
Laundry Liquid Hunt
My go-to laundry liquid comes in these big bottles, but the
store near me started selling smaller ones at a “discount.” I
wasn’t buying it — literally. I couldn’t tell if it
was a rip‑off or not. Dealbreaker broke it down—price per liter, shipping and discount factored in—and showed me the online deal was cheaper. Saved me from overpaying for less soap.
