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Re: I'm Mad as Heck, & I'm Not Gonna Take it Anymore!
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lugnet.general
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Mon, 31 Jan 2000 18:38:37 GMT
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Greg Vander Mark wrote:
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> I went to Meijer in Greenville today to spend my $10 gift certificate on some
> clearance Legos when I heard the following: "Attention - all Clearance items
> in the toy department will be an additional 50% off for the next fifteen
> minutes." So, being the rabid Lego buyer that I am, I quickly ran to the Legos
> and grabbed the big UFO ship (yeah, I know, but it was all I could afford)
> that was already only $40, thinking I could get it for $20. But when I got to
> the checkout the girl scanned it at the regular price and said that because it
> didn't have a clearance sticker (even though there was a big sign in the Legos
> that said 'UFO Lego System $39.99'), it couldn't be cut any more.
> Am I wrong to be mad at these people?
IMO, not at all... I'd be more than a little choked too. However, in
all fairness to the checkout person, she may not have had the
priviledges necessary to be able to offer the discounted price without
that clearance sticker. A store manager certainly would have, and I
would have asked to speak to him or her. AFAIK, a retail outlet is
always obligated to honor their own signage or advertisements, even if
other parts of their pricing database have not yet been synchronized
with it (otherwise, I believe it falls into the same category as 'bait
and switch').
> > Mark
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