[Chat] ...Watch the Gewirtz at Giant...

[arjay]

Steve,

I think you should advertise this incident on the "discussion" in order to 
fire up a group of sympathizers, ...and collect donations from all of them, 
...and file a legal suit against Giant!

Arjay
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>===== Original Message From Stephen J Gewirtz <gewirtz at bellatlantic.net> 
=====
>Last week, when I got home from the Waverly Giant, I discovered that I
>been charged twice for one container of cat litter.  When I went back,
>they gave me a refund.
>
>This afternoon, I bought a few things including two 3-box family
>packages of Kleenex tissues that were marked as being on sale at $5.99.
>The register rang up $7.99.  Fortunately, I caught it.  First, the
>person from the customer service desk (who came over to the checkout
>aisle) said that those packages were not on sale according to this
>week's ad, just the single packages.  I remembered specifically that the
>sale price I had seen referred to family packages at $5.99, so the
>customer service woman went to the aisle to check.  She came back with
>the sale price sign and said that it was an old (presumably last week's)
>price.
>
>Fortunately, I am aware that Giant has a policy that if the scanned
>price is higher than the price marked in the aisle, the customer gets
>one of the item for free.  So I asked for and got one for free and the
>other at the marked price of $5.99.  I made out well.
>
>But think about it; it is now Friday, and the price presumably changed
>on Sunday.  Over a period of more than 5 days, how many people grabbed a
>package of tissues because they were marked as being on sale, but were
>charged the full price?
>
>Watch the register (and not only at Giant)!
>
>Steve.
>
>
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