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Pantry decant Bulk refill home Both want a wide mouth Said plainly rather than worked around The seal is the product Square or straight sided beats round Label the decant with what the bag said Which is a real food safety point, not tidiness Tare matters here too Which is an argument for light containers at the bin References

Fifteen jars. For the two leaves that are almost entirely jars.

Pantry decant

Flour, rice, pasta, sugar, oats, moved out of the bag into something that seals, stacks and can be seen into. A kitchen organisation craft with a food storage requirement underneath it.

Bulk refill home

The same goods bought from a bulk bin into a reusable container. The weights and measures question lives here, because this one is a sale by weight.

Both want a wide mouth

A scoop has to go in and a hand has to come out. Fifteen jars on this shelf, and that is the whole jar offering for two of the six leaves.

Said plainly rather than worked around

A customer looking for a set of matching pantry jars is not well served here. The bottles are a genuine offering and the jars are not yet.

The seal is the product

Dry goods fail on moisture and on pests, and both are a closure problem. Five liners and sealing discs on this shelf is the line item that addresses it.

Square or straight sided beats round

A pantry is a shelf, and round containers waste the space between them. This is the one craft where the footprint matters more than the shape of the bottle.

Label the decant with what the bag said

Lot, best-before and cooking instructions all live on the packaging that gets thrown away. A decant with none of that is a jar of unidentified white powder in six months.

Which is a real food safety point, not tidiness

Allergen information is on the bag. A household with a nut allergy that decants into unlabelled jars has thrown away the only copy.

Tare matters here too

A customer who brings their own jar to a bulk bin is in exactly the situation the net weight definition describes, and a heavy jar is a large tare relative to a small purchase.

Which is an argument for light containers at the bin

And a reason a glass jar, which is the aesthetic ideal for a pantry, is the expensive choice at a bulk counter that charges by gross weight. Not that it should.

References

The Davis Pack Supply catalog, measured 19 October 2026. The refill and zero waste shelf is 917 rows: 485 containers and 432 closures. 100 mL to 7,571 mL with a median of 237; 166 containers over a pint, 82 over a quart, 35 over two quarts and 23 over a gallon. 324 PET, 152 HDPE, 7 PP and 2 glass. 443 bottles, 15 jars, 15 tubs and pails and 12 jugs. 134 white, 111 clear, 76 amber, 54 natural. Closures: 268 continuous thread, 39 lotion pumps, 37 disc top, 15 flip top, 13 dome lids, 11 treatment pumps, 9 phenolic, 7 buttress, 7 round tubs, 5 foamer pumps, 5 liners and sealing discs. Necks: 194 at 24-410, 91 at 38-400, 51 at 28-410, 44 at 45-400.

NIST Handbook 130, 2023, Uniform Weights and Measures Law. Section 1.2: "The term 'weight' as used in connection with any commodity or service means net weight. When a commodity is sold by drained weight, the term means net drained weight." Section 1.8 defines net mass or net weight as "the weight of a commodity excluding any materials, substances, or items not considered to be part of the commodity. Materials, substances, or items not considered to be part of the commodity include, but are not limited to, containers, conveyances, bags, wrappers, packaging materials, labels, individual piece coverings, decorative accompaniments, and coupons, except that, depending on the type of service rendered, packaging materials may be considered to be part of the service." nist.gov

Written from NIST Handbook 130, 2023 edition, and from the catalog as it stood on 19 October 2026. Handbook 130 is a compilation of model laws rather than federal law, and states adopt it in different forms, from different years, or not at all; the binding text is your state's. Nothing here concerns whether a scale is legal for trade, which is Handbook 44 and a state device approval, or the retail food rules for refilling a customer's food container, which belong to whoever licenses the shop.