Mel Bryan
Three kids, one mop, zero patience for marketing.
Mel spent nine years as a retail buyer before leaving to stay home with her three kids, and she never quite lost the habit of comparing cost per ounce on everything. She runs the side-by-side tests, mostly in her own kitchen, mostly on messes her kids made. If a bottle costs three times as much as the one next to it, she wants to know exactly what the extra money buys.
What She Covers
Cost per diluted ounce — the calculation that shows a $50 concentrate beating a $12 spray, which nobody else in this category runs.
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