"Brooklyn1" <Gravesend1> wrote in message
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> On 17 Nov 2012 12:37:24 GMT, notbob > wrote:
>
>>On 2012-11-17, Dimitri > wrote:
>>
>>> Check your receipt carefully.
>>
>>Always!
>>
>>I once discovered I'd been charged $38.00 for a bunch of parsely.
>
> The only mistakes I find is very occasionally the deli department puts
> in a wrong item number and I don't discover it until after it's rung
> up at check out and I'm already home... sorta my fault too for not
> looking at the price and name of the product printed on the label
> before leaving the deli department, usually because I'm too busy
> ogling the wimens, and I'm not about to drive all the way back to
> collect a buck or two. But the thing is just as often they punch in
> the wrong item number in my favor, so it averages out. Occasionally
> they punch in an incorrect item number on produce too, that can also
> favor either way. And since I have a drawer in my kitchen where I
> save the receipts for a while if it's any amount worth the trouble I
> bring the receipt to customer service my next trip. Thing is I've
> never once found an error at Walmart.


Just before I retired, the penalty for giving Wal Mart an incorrect UPC code
for a product in their set-up sheet was $100,000.00.

With penalties like that very few vendors enter or give Wally World the
wrong code.

After all is said and done they run a tight ship in that area.

Dimitri