In this guide
Quick answer
A customer sends a screenshot from another site and asks whether ours is dearer. The screenshot shows a figure, the pack size is in small grey text below it, and the grade is not named anywhere. Three quarters of the time the two shops are not selling the same thing, and the comparison was never possible as it stood.
What is the difference between a per kg rate and a pack price?
A pack price is what leaves your account. A per kilo rate is what the thing costs. They are different numbers doing different jobs, and a shop quoting one while you are thinking of the other is the single commonest way a dry fruit price is misread.
Smaller packs almost always work out dearer per kilo. That is not a trick. A pouch, a label, a seal and a courier box cost roughly the same whether they hold a quarter kilo or a full one, so the smaller pack carries more of that cost per gram. A half kilo of badam being dearer per kilo than a full kilo of the same badam is normal and honest.
How do you convert a pack price to a kilo rate?
Divide by the grams and multiply by a thousand. That is the whole method.
- A quarter-kilo pack: multiply the pack price by four.
- A half-kilo pack: double it.
- A 200 gram pack: multiply by five.
- Anything else: price divided by grams, times a thousand.
Do it to both figures before deciding anything. On this site you do not have to: every product page and every price page prints the pack price and the per kilo figure side by side, both read off the shop as the page loads. Badam today runs at today's shop rate across the grades we keep, which the badam price page breaks down pack by pack.
Which one should you actually compare on?
Per kilo, always, and only after the grade matches. Grade first, kilo rate second, pack price last. Comparing pack prices across two shops tells you almost nothing, because the packs are rarely the same weight and the grades are rarely the same count.
| The figure | What it answers | Good for |
|---|---|---|
| Pack price | What this order costs today | Deciding how much to buy |
| Per kilo rate | What the item itself costs | Comparing two shops |
| Grade or count | Which version of the item it is | Deciding whether the comparison is fair at all |
The three traps in a quoted figure
Net weight against gross weight comes first. A pack sold as half a kilo is sometimes half a kilo including a heavy jar. Read what the net weight says, not what the jar looks like.
Then the grade. Pista sold as kernels and pista sold in shell are quoted in the same rupees and are nowhere near the same thing to eat, because the shell is roughly half the weight you paid for. Our kernel rate today is at today's shop rate and the pista price page names what each figure belongs to.
Third, the delivery. A low rate plus a delivery charge plus a minimum cart value is not a low rate. Our orders start at ₹1,000 and every order ships free, so the figure on the page is the figure on the bill.
Is a bigger pack always better value?
Per kilo, nearly always. In practice, only if you will finish it while it is still good. Nuts carry oil, oil turns, and warm months turn it faster. A kilo of akhrot bought cheap and eaten over five months is dearer than a half kilo eaten in six weeks, because half of the first one went in the bin.
A sensible household rhythm is a month at a time for the things you eat daily, and the larger pack only for what a full family gets through: kaju for cooking, makhana for roasting, khajur in winter. Kaju at our counter today is at today's shop rate, and the kaju price page shows which pack that lands on. If you would rather see everything in one place first, the full range with today’s rates is one page.
Questions people ask
Why is your 250 gram pack more than a quarter of your kilo rate?
The packing, the seal and the courier cost the same on a small pack as a big one, so a bigger share of that lands on each gram. The per kilo figure beside every pack on this site shows exactly how much.
Is the rate on your site fixed for the month?
No. It is read from the shop each time the page loads, so it moves when the buying rate moves, on the same day.
How do I compare your price with a local shop?
Ask the shop for the grade or count and the net weight, convert both figures to a kilo rate, and compare those two. If the grade is not named, the two figures cannot be compared.
Do you charge more for a smaller order?
No. The pack rates are the same on every order, and delivery is free on all of them.
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Written at our counter, where these questions get asked every week.
