‘Deceptive pricing’: Ohio AG sues Dollar General

Fox 19 News ^ | 11/2/22

[clearcarbon]

"Have you been to Walmart lately? I’m finding the same thing there. Inflation is so bad the workers can’t keep up with the increased prices."

A while back at Walmart, I asked an "associate" where I could find a price scanner because I was unsure of the price marked on the shelf. She said the store had removed all the price scanners, but I could look up the price on my cell phone using a "Walmart Ap."

Since then, my Walmart shopping technique has changed. I look up prices before going to the store which means I visit there only I expect to be passing the store and then buy only those items ignoring the rest of the store mismarked merchandise. Unfortunately Walmart seems to to a very bad job keeping their online inventory up to date. Apparently some of the stock tends to wander.

[beaversmom]

Yes, I had the store wrong. Someone else mentioned it upthread.

[StAnDeliver]

"I shop these stores and from what I have seen in the last 6 months or so, the staff just cannot keep up with the price changes. One store the staffing is so bad they have other local store employees come in to help with the weekly shipment."

Accurate. What they could do is put a scanner in a DG app, you shoot the QR or the bar code of the product at the shelf price, put it in basket, link via QR at checkout, and voila your prices are correct.

If you don't buy something you scanned, no big, it's just for pricing not purchase; if you buy something you didn't shelf scan, you roll the dice.

[FlingWingFlyer]

I have been using the Walmart app scanner on my phone also. It comes in handy. A lot of things in our Walmart have no indication of the price anywhere around where they sit on the shelf.

[lodi90]

Walmart will change the price at the register if its wrongly marked on the shelf. I just take a photo now and show it to the cashier. They’ve left the wrong shelf price on my favorite 4 pack of beer for over a month now. So I get a 75 cent discount every time I buy it. LOL.

[Openurmind]

“Computerization might well be spewing out price changes at 10x or 100x the rate that was occurring in the ‘60’s or ‘70’s.”

And that is true. It was during the 70’s when prices changed quite often, but it was only required to be adjusted weekly because vendor prices only changed weekly.

It would work out the same as now but each price hike was like .50 cents rather than a few cents change everyday like now. This daily thing is the problem. There is no reason why it cannot just be adjusted weekly instead.

If I was a wholesaler I would only subject price increases weekly. In a week it would be the same difference anyhow. Just less unnecessary work in between. This micromanaging prices one or two pennies at a time in real time is pure greed and absolutely ridiculous.

An accrued price difference once a week would help everyone and be more productive. There is no reason it needs to change everyday or twice a day. They spend more changing it than they would have made with the increase. It is a wash anyhow.

[Graybeard58]

Have a bad experience at a store? Don’t go back and do business with them.

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I haven’t been in a Wendy’s restaurant in over 40 years.

Poison me once, shame on you. Poison me twice, shame on me.