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Re: FOTW at KMART
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Mon, 13 Sep 1999 19:11:05 GMT
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On Mon, 13 Sep 1999 17:07:32 GMT, Mike Stanley <cjc@NOSPAMnewsguy.com>
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> On Mon, 13 Sep 1999 14:23:38 GMT, Scott Edward Sanburn
> <ssanburn@aeieng.com> wrote:
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> > It is law in Michigan. There is also a law about scanning items wrong, if the
> > price is different, you get 10X the amount of difference between prices. I
> > always changed the price if it was marked wrong when I was a cashier at Meijer.
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> The 10X thing sounds really whacked.
I don't know about the 10X thing first-hand, but I *believe* the idea is to
discourage stores from having higher prices in their scanning-computer than
in the displays. In this computer age, it's easy for stores to set things
up so the products/displays show one price, and the scanner rings up a
different price. If stores are running at 2%-3% net profit (such as
grocery stores), very slight over-charges could have a strong positive
effect on their profits.
Steve
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Message has 2 Replies:
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| Well, I am sure some stores do mark up deliberately, but working with the Systems department at Meijer, many times, it is a screw up uploading the prices every week. Cashiers due submit forms when things come up wrong, so it can be administered to. (...) (25 years ago, 13-Sep-99, to lugnet.market.shopping)
| | | Re: FOTW at KMART
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| (...) There's a McDonald's around here where several items (about 1/2 of those we ever get) ring up at least 5% higher than the (consistent inside and drive-through) menus show. I first discovered this when figuring that a $2 milkshake could not (...) (25 years ago, 13-Sep-99, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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| (...) The 10X thing sounds really whacked. I still say he did the right thing. I've seen numerous products that were obviously mispriced by mistake. Can't believe any sane person would expect the law to back them up and force a store to honor a (...) (25 years ago, 13-Sep-99, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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