Another Walmart Story (non ammo)-What would you do?

[SMSgt]

A Keurig would not last a week in my house before I wore it out or tossed the overpriced-coffee maker in the trash.

 

[sousana]

When I find something like that, and I do all the time, I use my phone to snap a picture of the palleted items and marked price.

 

[djohns6]

Items get placed in the wrong bin or shelf space all the time . A lot of times it's by a customer that has changed their mind about purchasing it and just puts it anywhere . You cannot force the store to sell you something that is mismarked or shelved incorrectly . And good luck proving Bait And Switch by a major retailer . MOST retailers will honor the price that is marked as long as it's not unreasonable , but they don't have to .

 

[LoboGunLeather]

In the 60's I knew folks that worked for NCR out of Dayton.

Mom used to drive dad mad when grocery shopping. All the canned, boxed and packaged goods were priced with a sticky label from a price gun. Mom would take forever in the store as she would dig behind all the goods on the shelves to find items that had been pushed to the back that still had last weeks lower price tag on them.

She was and still is a great bargain hunter.

PS: dad got to where he would drop her off at the grocers and he would step around the corner to the American Legion. This was before cell phones so she would use the store pay phone and call the bar to let dad know she was done.

At my VFW post you can call all you want to ask for me, but the answers will vary:

1. Who?
2. I don't think he is here.
3. Haven't seen him in a long time.

Of course, the bar staff always get Christmas cards with crisp folding money inside.

Note to self: Christmas is right around the corner, time to stock up on cards and stop by the bank for a collection of dead presidents.

 

[PatriotX]

The most distressing part of this story could be that people still shop for REM Oil?

 

[rwt1405]

When I find something like that, and I do all the time, I use my phone to snap a picture of the palleted items and marked price.

You beat me to it, as this is what I've learned to do also.

If they do not honor that price, it gets left at check out.

If the store can show it was simply a case of 1 or 2 items "misplaced" on a sale area/etc, I accept that.

BUT if the item is correctly placed in a "sale area" then they darn well better honor that price.

If a store does not honor that price, then IMHO, it is a "bait and switch" situation.

 

[VaTom]

The most distressing part of this story could be that people still shop for REM Oil?

Guess I am too old school. Have gone back to Hoppes #9 solvent and RemOil. Have tried some of the other "high performance" oils and cleaners. I think some of the oils are too thick. Was at a Cabela"s a couple of weeks ago and they had Hoppes #9 "Traditional Oil". Bought some. About the same viscosity as RemOil. Downside is it doesn't have a tapered spout on it and trying to get a small drop out is a problem. I like the samll dispenser that RemOil comes in as it has a tapered spout so you can better control the drops of oil.

Old habits are hard to break. Take care!

 

[PatriotX]

Comment was tongue-in-cheek, no offense meant.

I've been cleaning up some hard-luck guns lately, and the gummed-up insides make Rem Oil an easy target !

 

[Mike SC Hunter]

If the posted price is $35, that's the price. Your experience looks like a classic bait and switch.

No........Just Lax stupidity.

 

[Mike SC Hunter]

Wife and were in a wally awhile back. They had a full pallet of White Flyer clay birds marked at a $1.50 ea. I called a store clerk over to verify. She checked and said "Yep that's the price." We left with 21 cases(about all my wife's little car would hold. All other wally's have them at between $7 and $8 a case.
I have my own (private) skeet field with electronic traps. So this was a windfall for me.