my AMAZING ground beef deal!

[Allison]

i just had to share....


i figured thats what they get for charging so much in the first place! lol unfortunately there were no others priced like that!

That's what they get? For trying to turn a profit?

 

[Burnedout]

That's what they get? For trying to turn a profit?

Obviously none of these people own a small business where someone might make a mistake in pricing. Sticking it to people may be legal but lots of things are. You can be the meanest sob on the earth. Taking something that affects someone else negatively is wrong. Whether it is a wallet in the sidewalk or takin advantage of someone due to a mistake.

 

[Allison]

Obviously none of these people own a small business where someone might make a mistake in pricing. Sticking it to people may be legal but lots of things are. You can be the meanest sob on the earth. Taking something that affects someone else negatively is wrong. Whether it is a wallet in the sidewalk or takin advantage of someone due to a mistake.

I have a friend who is the meat department manager of a local store. I am sure he would honor the mistake without blinking an eye. But to imply a store is doing something wrong and deserves to lose money because of the prices they charge appears to be a way to make themselves feel better about it.

 

[Burnedout]

I have a friend who is the meat department manager of a local store. I am sure he would honor the mistake without blinking an eye. But to imply a store is doing something wrong and deserves to lose money because of the prices they charge appears to be a way to make themselves feel better about it.

I agree. Given the information then at least he could see it as a gift or good deed of the day rather than feeling angry at himself or his staff and disgusted that people are more concerned with saving a few bucks and screwing honest business men.

 

[luvsmickeymouse]

Honestly, I think stealing is a strong word...

As a business owner, I honor the price that was quoted even if cost of materials go up or labor takes longer than expected. Ultimately this affects my bottem line but my clients are not stealing from me.

As a supervisor in a large retail chain, I have honored: expired sale signs, mismarked products, expired coupons, coupons that have already been used and given guests discounts because they were not getting the service/product they expected (whether I agreed with them or not).

In business & life you win some & you loose some. I don't think OP was out to get anyone...She happened to "win one" today and the store happened to "loose one" today.

Moving on to find pixie dust... Have a good night!

Well put!

 

[jenrose66]

wow...i wasnt going to respond because im usually a thread killer and figured this would have blown over by now!

right or wrong, as someone said its what you can live with. if i notice a cashier forgot to ring something up i will tell them. i have gone back into the store after looking at my reciept in the car and figuring something was not rung up. im not a dishonest/thieving/lying person.

i viewed this as my karma. $2 for 6 pounds of hamburger, for all the times i didnt pay attention and didnt look at my reciept until i was home and noticed i was charged 2x for something i bought one of or overcharged for something.

fwiw, i overspent my budget by $9!

I agree. I try to check my receipt before I leave the store, or even better, watch as the cashier is ringing, but when I have my kids with me it's really hard to do. I will then get home and see I was overcharged $2 or $3 and it's really annoying, but I figure it's my fault for not checking the receipt.

With that said, I bought my daughter an $8 bathing suit along with some other clothes. When I checked out the cashier was really friendly and we were talking and she didn't charge me for the suit. I didn't notice until I was looking over my receipt when I got home. I'm not going to go back and have them charge me...I figure it evens out. I'm overcharged sometimes and I'm undercharged sometimes.

 

[Mariep26]

And in the op's state they are also required to honor that price. Since there was no other mislabeled packages and the store is required to honor the price labeled, why exactly should the op have said anything? While the op chose some wording at the end of their post that wasn't the greatest, they didn't do anything wrong. Pointing it out to the meat dept. would not have changed the results.

I never stated that I said she was stealing, I think that the right thing to do would be to tell the manager -- maybe there are packages our back that are missed marked that could be fixed prior to hitting the floor. Again, it is just my opinion. I agree that the wording is a bit misfortunate in that it certainly furthers the thought that she knew the choice was dishonest but that she needed to "stick it to them". If she came on and said that she found it, told the manager and he was nice enough to give her the deal (regardless of the laws). I would have applauded her find too. I usually have my kids with me and we have just started to talk about $$ and budgeting. When the time comes that something like this occurs, I would encourage them to tell the truth and hope for the outcome they want. I won't be telling them to see if the register allows them and then celebrate when it does.

 

[KellyNY]

I shut down my site last spring. You are correct, it is $0.08 most of the time.. I was typing too fast and hit 2 by accident. Sometimes I would ask people to write in their best shopping trip and would give a coupon envie away to the winner. Many times I would look at the list and know they had used the coupons wrong yet they would want to advertise it and would wonder why they were disqualified. The whole "the register let me do it" argument drives me crazy!

Or they just wanted to win your coupons, that is it. The side I am regular on also lets people to post their trips, however, there is no prove that they used coupons they said they did. Many times owner of the side also points out that she does not know where mentioned coupon comes from(if it even existed). This site also gives away coupons, all you have to do is to comment or put your trip and then there is just a random selection, no qualification or disqualification. I think people lied on those reports simply because you made it way too difficult to win just an envy of coupons. As a couponer, I can tell you that about 75% of the time I have some problem with coupons, does not scan, does not produce cat and so on and considering that many deals, esp. cat. are not printed in stores papers, try to prove anything. Considering how difficult it is to get a perfectly legit deal, getting something not kosher to work unless it was a glitch of some sort is unlikely. I am sorry but I think stories like that only make people hate couponers, esp. people who do not understand that cheating system here is very close to impossible.

 

[LockShockBarrel]

I work at a grocery store in NY. If there's an error in pricing, you get it for that price. We don't manually enter the price though, we enter a code for a product and that price is saved in it's computer. For us, if we label something incorrectly its usually because someone used the scale after we'd entered in a code, for instance if I had to help a customer and someone the same scale and I didn't check to see if it was still on the same product or not.

We have it drilled into us to double check what we're pricing but mistakes happen. It's a fallible system. It sounds like either there was a glitch in this store's system or someone mistyped something into their scale. I see no issue with the OP capitalizing on that mistake. It's not like she said she goes around looking for mispriced items or that she switched tags on it. The next step really should have been for the cashier to let their superior know there was a pricing error so they could check for more. But stealing or being immoral? You've gotta be kidding me.

 

[bookgirl]

That's shoplifting.

Actually no. A store is bound by law to sell an item at the price which it is marked. S by them mismarking the package they are obligated to sell it at that price to whatever lucky customer found it?

Congrats, good deal.