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This is silly. For one, the premise is wrong - Amazon almost certainly makes more money selling the $9 item than the $5 one.

The oz showing is most likely a fluke because one product has incomplete metadata (with hundreds of millions of listings, many have incomplete data).

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> most likely a fluke

I'd agree, probably not helped by the fact that the $9 item is a 2-pack.

Never ascribe to malice that which is can be explained by stupidity.

Stupidity might be a bit harsh here though.

FWIW I've seen this kind of thing at the local grocery store too. The name brand price tag reads "39¢/oz" and the generic right next to it reads "$3.79 per each". I can't be certain that it's malicious but it happens often enough to make me wonder.

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