Every Asian grocery store I’ve been to features an aisle of extraordinarily priced items, typically with no English labels. I can only assume these are shark fins?

Notice the pricing: $260 per pound. This jar was surrounded with several others, all of which were priced well over $150 per pound. Are these the typical purchasing weights for items like this? At those prices?

How about: 1/4lb or 4oz. - $65

The usability implications should be obvious - label appropriate to use, saving people the effort of calculating these numbers on their own. Especially when the division isn’t quite clear (I used the Mac calculator widget to do this :)

I could be wrong… people could be scooping up shark fins by the pound!

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