Tonight I was at Target picking up a prescription. As I walk past the clearance end cap I always keep my eyes open. There was a giant sign that said "30% OFF or MORE!" in huge letters, along with "price as marked" in small type at the bottom .
So far so good, especially when I spy 4 boxes of Benedryl single dose spoons. These things are gold for an allergy mom, I keep them scattered everywhere (cars, diaper bag, almost every room in the house) just in case my ds has an anaphylactic reaction. So I look a little more closely at the price on the box and it's $5.49 down to $4.66. Seemed a little high so I price checked it on the machine. Then I sauntered over to CS with the two boxes I wanted to buy to tell them it wasn't 30% off. Here's where the fun began.
CS tells me that they are only 15% off and that the part of the sign that says "priced as marked" means they could be clearanced at any price including 15% off. I told her that didn't make any sense, it's not what the sign said, and I was going to go back and take a picture. As I'm back there, I see a stock boy and ask him to look...he agrees the sign says "30% OFF" and nothing more. So I asked for him to call a manager back. In the meantime, I overhear the front of the store CS girl on the radio asking him to check the price signs. Kind of humorous since I'm standing right there. I tell her over the radio it definitely says 30% off.
Manager shows up and hems and haws. Says things get moved around and it's all clearance stuff at different prices. I point out to him that there's another whole end cap 3 rows down where the sign says "15% OFF", but these 4 boxes were here where it says 30% off. He flips the 30% sign over so it now reads 15% and tells me I can have a price override.
New price for me: $3.86 x 2. Not bad.
So far so good, especially when I spy 4 boxes of Benedryl single dose spoons. These things are gold for an allergy mom, I keep them scattered everywhere (cars, diaper bag, almost every room in the house) just in case my ds has an anaphylactic reaction. So I look a little more closely at the price on the box and it's $5.49 down to $4.66. Seemed a little high so I price checked it on the machine. Then I sauntered over to CS with the two boxes I wanted to buy to tell them it wasn't 30% off. Here's where the fun began.
CS tells me that they are only 15% off and that the part of the sign that says "priced as marked" means they could be clearanced at any price including 15% off. I told her that didn't make any sense, it's not what the sign said, and I was going to go back and take a picture. As I'm back there, I see a stock boy and ask him to look...he agrees the sign says "30% OFF" and nothing more. So I asked for him to call a manager back. In the meantime, I overhear the front of the store CS girl on the radio asking him to check the price signs. Kind of humorous since I'm standing right there. I tell her over the radio it definitely says 30% off.
Manager shows up and hems and haws. Says things get moved around and it's all clearance stuff at different prices. I point out to him that there's another whole end cap 3 rows down where the sign says "15% OFF", but these 4 boxes were here where it says 30% off. He flips the 30% sign over so it now reads 15% and tells me I can have a price override.
New price for me: $3.86 x 2. Not bad.
And a dollar saved.....
