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Re: FOTW at KMART
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Mon, 13 Sep 1999 20:40:00 GMT
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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. The cashier has the right to change prices a certain amount, as
well, which I have used frequently. It is an absurd law, however. One of those,
gee, lets see how reaching we can be moves.
Scott S.
Steve Bliss wrote:
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> On Mon, 13 Sep 1999 17:07:32 GMT, Mike Stanley <cjc@NOSPAMnewsguy.com>
> wrote:
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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.
> >
> > The 10X thing sounds really whacked.
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> 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.
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> Steve
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