[Avodah] daily halachot

[Daniel Israel]

Eli Turkel wrote:
> 1. He said that the custom in bakeries (though I find it in many stores) is that
> when there are many baked goods they are put into a cardboard basket and
> then weighted. Thus one is paying for the cardboard but at a price that is
> determined by the inside products (in Israel he estimated between 1 and
> 2 1/2 shekel). He claims that this is onaah from the Torah.

It is definitely not uncommon in bakeries in the US for them to weigh 
the box and there scales are designed so that they can re-zero them to 
subtract out the weight of the box.

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Daniel M. Israel
dmi1 at cornell.edu