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Default (2010-06-21) NS-RFC: Barcode pricing on food. Do you think that...

Steve Pope wrote:
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> Sky > wrote:
>
> >James Silverton wrote:

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> >> Sky wrote on Mon, 21 Jun 2010 15:16:17 -0500:

>
> >>> Schnucks, a regional grocery store chain, has a policy that if
> >>> the price for the scanned item doesn't match the shelf tag,
> >>> then the customer gets the item for free. This probably helps
> >>> to keep errors to a minimum, hopefully. I've sometimes come
> >>> away with free stuff due to this policy

>
> >> But do you really remember what it said on the shelf unless the
> >> difference is gross?

>
> >Yes, I do tend to remember numbers and prices fairly well when grocery
> >shopping.

>
> Me too. What typically happens to me is I remember a price on
> a shelf tag, but it doesn't actually apply to the item I
> am purchasing for some reason (in a subset of these cases,
> I could have detected this had I looked more closely at the tag).
>
> So normally, if something rings up wrong, I go back to
> the shelf to check it out more carefully before whining
> about it. :-)



Yep, that's what I do in this circumstance, too ;D

Sky

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