On Mon, 14 Nov 2011 02:40:34 -0600, Sqwertz >
wrote:


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>Huh? What do loyalty cards have tgo do with this? And what grocery
>stores put price tags on individual items any more?
>

Have you looked at the examples I have given? I work in a grocery
store. I'm talking about boxed and canned items that come from the
manufacturer. I'm talking about items that are produced with the
store, packaged by a clerk, and LABELED by a clerk. If the price is
changed, and NOT a club card item, then the label must be changed to
be accurate. There are laws about accurate labeled, and we get
audited. If the item is a coupon item, the label doesn't have to be
changed, only the shelf tag.

Back before the club card, the stores had sale items that had to be
re-labeled and coupons that had to be scanned one at a time. And the
customers would use them and come back again and claim they had no
coupon, or had lost them. So, the checkers would have to manually
enter them all. Now, with the club card, they do not have to re-label
all those items, and all the coupons work with a swipe of a card. It
is much faster and cheaper.


Any meat that is packaged in the meat department has a scale label on
it. We are not allowed to cover a label with a new label. So, when the
prices changed (before club cards), the item had to be repackaged and
re-labeled. Same with seafood.

In the bakery, the labels could usually be peeled off and changed. So,
they didn't have to be totally repackaged. Even today, bread, cookies,
pastries, etc that are packaged in the bakery are labeled in the
bakery by a clerk.

Same with the deli department. Not as many items as before, but check
out those cheeses. Our store has a whole grab n go case with hundreds
of hunks of cheeses, and many of them still use scale labels because
they are priced per pound and the weights vary. Those price labels
used to be changed every week if the item went on or off the ad.

We also have a lot of items that we cook in the deli and sell cold.
Chickens, meatloaf, chinese meals, etc. They are also labeled with a
tag by the clerk. While they may only be out for 1-3 days, anything
there when the ad changes would need to be relabeled if we did not
have the club card system.

Have you ever shopped at a store with a club card? The indiviudal
label says the normal price. And when you use your club card, the
coupon amount is applied, lowering the price. This allows the store to
keep the regular price on the item at all times, so they don't need to
be changed out. While still having the correct price on teh shelf,
keeping it marked correctly.