Those “cheater” sizes of cleaning supplies or similar cost more for the same amount of product, it’s just that if you are broke you can only afford the tiny ass bottle of laundry detergent or whatever in the short term.

I didn’t notice how different the sizes were until I stopped going for years (between 2020 and 2024) and came back to find products that looked ridiculously tiny compared to what I remembered. The covid inflation fest made it way too obvious.