Grocercy Store Sign - New Lower Price LOL

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Iron Woode

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I went to the store to pick up some things and went to get a 500ml container of yogurt, when I noticed the sign stating a new lower price.

I wish I had a pic of this but the sign said: regularly $3.00 now $2.99. o_O

bear in mind that we have no pennies so that price is rounded up to (wait for it)....$3.00.

wow.

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FeuerFrei

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I've seen Target raise prices and then advertise it as a price cut/savings.

- Oh look, it's 20% off!
-- No actually they raised the price 20%. Liars.
 
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FeuerFrei said:
I've seen Target raise prices and then advertise it as a price cut/savings.

- Oh look, it's 20% off!
-- No actually they raised the price 20%. Liars.
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if you're shopping at target you'll usually make out pretty well. it's the people who blow their wads at nobu or wynn that get reamed
 
Eug

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WelshBloke said:
If you buy two is it $5.98?
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If you buy three, it's $14.97, which would get rounded down to $14.95.

If you pay in cash that is. However, if you use a credit card, it's $14.97.

BTW, one of my accounts was 2 cents overdrawn. I wasn't going to get any charges, but it was irritating me, so the next time I went to the bank I gave the teller a nickel and told her to correct that.

She smiled and gave me back the nickel, and then corrected it to zero. You see, paying 5 cents for a 2 cent amount would mean she'd owe me 3 cents, which would then be rounded back up to 5 cents.

Kinda reminds me of that Superman movie with Richard Pryor.
 
mxnerd

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"The rounding will not be done on single items but on the total bill of sale. If the price ends in a one, two, six, or seven it gets rounded down to 0 or 5; and rounded up if it ends in three, four, eight or nine."

Like this

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"Businesses will not need to adjust their cash registers."

Guess many Americans don't know how to pay If one day U.S. follow suit. :D
 
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Carson Dyle

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I get a kick out of grocery pricing games.

Walmart constantly wiggles prices. Raise something that costs $1.58 by 10 cents, then a week later 15 cents, then 12 cents... Then one day they lower it back down to $1.58 and put a big "New lower price!" sign on the shelf that shows the inflated price. Then start the cycle all over again.

Sale prices like 2 for $7.00 always struck me as idiotic. I'm sure plenty of people see them and buy 2 of whatever. Or 4 for $8.00? Sorry, I don't need four bottle of ketchup. I actually saw one last week that had items marked "9 for $13.00" WTF? This one plays into the fact that only a tiny fraction of population will be able to do the math and figure out that's a little under $1.50 each and then see that it means the items are only 13 cents off the regular price.
 
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[DHT]Osiris

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Yeah, this is par for the course nowadays, I blame Walmart for starting the psychological warfare with its customers.

Another thing that amazes me (in line with these tiny adjustments) is people that will argue at a cash register for like 20 minutes over a 12c difference on something. When I worked at Walmart i just overrode the price with whatever they said, cuz frankly I couldn't be bothered to verify it, and there was always a line of like 12 people behind them.
 
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Amazon is pretty bad about this, they'll mark stuff up higher than the original MSRP, then mark it down to the normal price and say they're giving you like 15% off. I also get e-mails from them saying items I've looked at have had their prices lowered, open the e-mail to find out a monitor is like 799.90 instead of 799.98.
 
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[DHT]Osiris said:
Yeah, this is par for the course nowadays, I blame Walmart for starting the psychological warfare with its customers.
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It's not new. Been going on for decades, if not centuries. They had to pass a law here in Colorado, I think it was the late 80s or early 90s stating that if you advertise a sale price, then the "regular" price had to be in use at least x months out of the year. The old May D&F department stores constantly had clothing "on sale" but the regular price was seen maybe a couple weeks out of the year.

Another thing that amazes me (in line with these tiny adjustments) is people that will argue at a cash register for like 20 minutes over a 12c difference on something. When I worked at Walmart i just overrode the price with whatever they said, cuz frankly I couldn't be bothered to verify it, and there was always a line of like 12 people behind them.
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Most cashiers will do that. It's not their money. Not long ago I grabbed some cheese on sale at a smaller grocer in town. Turns out that someone had marked the wrong item and it was a different cheese on sale. The price difference was fairly large - like $5.00. I saw it ring up at $7.00 and told the clerk they're marked with a sign 2/$4.00. He shrugged, pressed a couple keys. and entered $2.00. I went back a day or two later, the tagging was fixed, saw that I was wrong.
 
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Sounds like they blew their opportunity to lower the price to $2.98 with the same result.
 
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[DHT]Osiris

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Carson Dyle said:
It's not new. Been going on for decades, if not centuries. They had to pass a law here in Colorado, I think it was the late 80s or early 90s stating that if you advertise a sale price, then the "regular" price had to be in use at least x months out of the year. The old May D&F department stores constantly had clothing "on sale" but the regular price was seen maybe a couple weeks out of the year.
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Yeah, hence me blaming Walmart, that's one of the many methods they've used to become successful over the last few decades. Fair enough bout the centuries part :p

Another fun one is products that come with 'Sale' or 'Sale Price' or whatever printed on the box. Like seriously, if it's coming from the Chinese Factory that way, it's not a sale price. It's just the price.

Carson Dyle said:
Most cashiers will do that. It's not their money. Not long ago I grabbed some cheese on sale at a smaller grocer in town. Turns out that someone had marked the wrong item and it was a different cheese on sale. The price difference was fairly large - like $5.00. I saw it ring up at $7.00 and told the clerk they're marked with a sign 2/$4.00. He shrugged, pressed a couple keys. and entered $2.00. I went back a day or two later, the tagging was fixed, saw that I was wrong.
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The decent ones do, some places/cashiers are all too willing to flip that little switch though. 2 minutes later someone shows up, runs off, and we all spend like 10 minutes waiting for them to find where in aisle 72 that particular product was at.
 
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[DHT]Osiris

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louis redfoot said:
coupon drama is the worst, really gets the road rage out of me
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That was another fun one, little central/south american ladies buying t-bones with coupons for 99c ground beef. Didn't understand a lick of English. Rang it up anyhow cuz I didn't have the time nor the care for how much Walmart was losing.

Nice ladies though, they bought bags and bags of roma tomatoes. I always envied their shopping carts.
 
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