>I buy a fair amount of cat food (no, Terry, it's for my cats, sigh). In every store I've been in, I've noticed that the canned food (170 gm size) sells individually for less than if you buy the same brand packaged in a case of 12. Very strange. For instance, I was in PetSmart, and the individual cans were 47 cents, A case of 12 was $5.87. Nobody seems to know why, but I suspect it's because generally people expect it to be the other way around, so they buy the cases without really paying attention.

Oh, they are paying.