Something very perpexling is happening in this country. Maybe someone out there can it explain it to me.

I just went and bought a block of edam cheese at one of the local markets. It was $9.95 for a 500g chunk. You can buy a 250g block for $5.25. This makes sense to me. Buy more, pay slightly less. However, if you want to buy the 1kg block, you're gonna pay $22.35. Huh?

What exactly are you paying for here? It must be the convenience of having your cheese in one simple container rather than having to juggle 2 unwieldly 500g blocks.

I was a lit major at university. I did take a few economics classes but we either didn't cover the economy of cheese or I fell asleep in class that day.

However, this is not isolated to just cheese in Samoa. You find odd pricing policies in markets all over the country for various products from mosquito coils to peanut butter.

You have to be savvy in this land of comparison shopping.