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size=2>From: "Eli Turkel" <A
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<DIV><BR>>> He said that the custom in bakeries (though I find it in
many stores) is that<BR>when there are many baked goods they are put into a
cardboard basket and<BR>then weighted. Thus one is paying for the cardboard but
at a price that is<BR>determined by the inside products (in Israel he estimated
between 1 and<BR>2 1/2 shekel). He claims that this is onaah from the Torah.
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<DIV>There is a frum-owned candy store here in NMB where you choose the gift
basket or box you want and then they fill it with the candy and weigh it.
What they do is, they put the basket on the scale and then set the scale to
zero, so that you are indeed only paying for the weight of the candy or nuts and
not the weight of the container. </DIV>
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<DIV>In the new kosher bakery that just opened, I noticed just yesterday that
the owner weighed the cardboard box before putting cake into it, wrote down the
weight and then subtracted that weight from the weight of the cake before
calculating the price. This seemed a rather time-consuming procedure to
me, which he will have to streamline when (I"YH) his store becomes really busy,
but I did take note of his Yiras Shomayim.</DIV>
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<DIV><FONT color=#0000ff></FONT></FONT><FONT lang=0 face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" PTSIZE="10"><BR><B>--Toby
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