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My uncle was in a similar situation: bought a granola bar, price was wrong, free granola bar. He went back a few days later and the price was still wrong. He’s
by alhirzel 4y ago
My uncle was in a similar situation: bought a granola bar, price was wrong, free granola bar. He went back a few days later and the price was still wrong. He’s a lawyer, and he sued the store and won (false advertising or something) to get them to fix the price. Pretty awkward because it’s the closest store to his family’s house. His son said it best one day, “dad, are you bored at work?”
- copperwater69 4y ago
- bayouborne 4y ago"..He went back a few days later and the price was still wrong." I've occasionally wondered about this, as an entirely new class of crime. One where a motivated regional manager at a modern supermarket chain could get together with someone in the IT infrastructure and decide to tweak a number (a price) in a database, and carefully watch the uncontested sales vs requests for refunds ratio. These 'mistakes' could be happening all across the stores' offerings and no one, including most of the employees, would ever be the wiser.
- alhirzel 4y agoI've half-suspected that Harbor Freight does this. Doing the analytics could be a good business opportunity. I'm sure once the metadata companies (Amazon, Facebook) meet real retail (not just the high-dollar retail like Whole Foods), there will be interest in this measure of consumer's price awareness.