[Chat] Watch the register at Giant

[jdy]

is that fraud? has happened to me a couple times. even at the rotunda.
judy
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Stephen J Gewirtz" <gewirtz at bellatlantic.net>
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Sent: Friday, May 27, 2005 6:18 PM
Subject: [Chat] Watch the register at Giant


> 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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