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My $4 chili turned into $11 at the register in Dayton last Friday, so which side are you on?
I was at the Save-A-Lot over on Salem Ave in Dayton last Friday grabbing stuff for a big pot of chili, and I had my math done in my head at about $4 a serving for six people. I get to the register and the ground beef rang up a buck fifty higher than the shelf tag said, and the cashier told me the tag was from last week and nobody pulled it. I asked for a price check and the manager came over and just shrugged, said they could not honor it, so I stood there for maybe four minutes doing the math on whether to swap it for the cheaper 73/27 pack. I ended up grabbing the cheaper beef and a can of diced tomatoes instead of fresh, and my total dropped back down to around $9, so the pot still came out fine. But here is the thing I keep chewing on: some folks say you should always fight for the shelf price and make them honor it, and other folks say a buck fifty is not worth holding up the line. I stood in the line, so I know where I land, but I want to hear from the other side. What do you do when the tag and the register do not match, do you push back or just pay it and move on?
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margaretramirez1d ago
Man, a buck fifty is a buck fifty but is it really worth four minutes of your Friday? I get the principle of it, the tag says one thing so that's the price, but I have also seen people hold up a whole line over a dime and it makes everybody behind them nuts. Half the time the shelf tag is just old and it is not some big scam, it is just a store that does not pay anybody to update the stickers. You already did the smart thing and swapped for the cheaper pack, so you got your chili and nobody had to call corporate. I would have paid it and been annoyed in my car for ten minutes, then forgotten about it by dinner.
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