Posted on 11/02/2022 4:43:20 AM PDT by EBH
The last straw was when I took a pair of work gloves to the register...price was nearly double the displayed amount; "it's in the wrong place"...
I went through every shelf label, every glove - SCAM.
The store manager had the b*lls to getup in my grill about it.
bye-bye
Liberals hate Dollar General and have wanted to destroy it for a long time.
The Dollar General stores in downeast Maine are offering $17.00 an hour to start and they cannot fill the vacancies;
Wal-Mart is offering over $20.00 an hour for the night shift and it is short 15 people.
Like I said I do not think this is intentional..
The illegal part is when they don’t change the price of the item on the shelf. So you pick up an item marked $1 and the register charges $1.50 - that is illegal in most states (called fraud).
Intentional or not it is still illegal.
You question them and if they don’t make good the discrepancy you decline the purchase.
I agree. This is negligence, not intent, but the effect is the same and the burden is on the company.
A corporate buyer changes the price per item based on the item costs on the recent purchase orders. This happens all the time but is happening more frequently due to rampant inflation.
The system generates a list (some systems directly print new shelf labels in the store) of all the items with new prices in that store.
The store doesn't have enough staff to keep up with changes and the system doesn't force a staff member to confirm the new label is on the shelf before the register charges the new price.
Bingo - consumer fraud.
Dollar General management needs to spend a small fortune to recode their systems to force a staff member to confirm that the shelf label was changed before the system charges the new price. (Using the "last-known-good" controls and putting the burden correctly on the retailer to avoid defrauding the customer).
I have friends in Argentina who’ve experienced real hyper-inflation. When they’d go to the grocery store it would shut down every few hours to change prices. That’s hyper-inflation. Stores that operate on thin margins are the most vulnerable.
Dad owned a Grocery store through the 60’s and 70’s. Been there. He still kept up with pricing with no problem.
At my Dollar Generals here in CO, most everything is $1.25. The only thing I have paid more than that was for a Tshirt or something that was on the bigger side.
PS The Dollar Generals here in my area in CO are also having staffing problems.
You’re right. We now review our entire receipts before leaving the store. We’ve had so many over-charges and items rung up multiple times.
We never felt it was purposeful, but we can take care of the issue with Customer Service before walking out.
When it IS purposeful, there’s a problem.
This is pretty sad. Do they want the businesses open or closed?
Just make all prices “approximate” subject to change at the register.
Do people really think this solves anything?
Prices go up so fast it is difficult to keep it straight.
LOL, I always go into the “Dollar Store” expecting to see things for a dollar, but don’t.
That said, they have cheap, crappy stuff, but sometimes, something cheap and crappy is specifically what you need.
But it doesn’t cost a dollar!!!
I find my Sprouts here is notorious for showing one price on the shelves but not having that price come up at the register. Then when you call the cashier on it they aren’t thrilled, is the customers behind you also get pissed off.
Agreed.
“In Dollar General’s defense, their stores are minimally staffed in order to help keep prices down.”
My mom shops at Dollar General because the next closest store is 15 miles from home. She does it for convenience. I’ve always thought their prices are higher than a regular store’s prices.
I am waiting for the on-line “confirm” button to give you new pricing.
All my life, I have seen on-line sales close down brick-and-mortar stores. I think that now, we may see the reverse.
Is Dollar Tree next? Their items are now $1.25.
That sounds like Dollar Tree, not the same as Dollar General.
“The Dollar General stores in downeast Maine are offering $17.00 an hour to start and they cannot fill the vacancies;
Wal-Mart is offering over $20.00 an hour for the night shift and it is short 15 people.”
Its like that everywhere.
The labor supply for these jobs doesn’t exist.
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