Safeway is far worse in the other direction. There are THOUSANDS of “Sale” stickers all over the store that are all changed weekly. There are basic prices, sale prices for everybody, “Member” prices, weekly special prices, Friday special prices, better prices if you buy four of something (even if you only want one), and on and one. Even worse, they want you to use their app to digitally “clip” product coupons and you don’t get that special price unless you enter your phone number in the terminal. Much much worse, I find that maybe 25% to 30% of the special prices do not ring up correctly. I grabbed a bottle of wine on sale (marked on the display case as $11) and it rang up at full price ($20). The clerk was rude and the store manager had to roam all over the store to find the display. Then they couldn’t get the right price to ring up on the register, so I had to go over to Customer Service to pay for it there with the $11 price.
Shopping at Safeway has become an absolute nightmare ever since they kept piling on more and more digital crap and very little of it actually works.
“Shopping at Safeway has become an absolute nightmare ever since they kept piling on more and more digital crap and very little of it actually works.”
AGREE!!!!
It’s a pain when you can’t correlate price notices with the product on the shelf. You need a microscope to read the product description. Is the 2.90 the small or large? Are the prices above or below the product? Also irritating is Buy One Get One Free but there is only one left of each different item. Can you mix and match?
“Then they couldn’t get the right price to ring up on the register, so I had to go over to Customer Service to pay for it there with the $11 price.”
At most stores they just hit manager override at the register and manually enter the price.
Krogers is the same way. Bazillions of little sale tags. Some poor worker has to meticulously change those things every week.