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Post by nightmist on Apr 7, 2015 19:56:12 GMT -5
As some of you know I do textile dyeing. Dyeing requires lots and lots of non-iodized salt. Today as kiri and DD3 were heading out "to get my life sustaining supplies... Corn Meal and Gunpowder and Ham Hocks and Guitar Strings"(1), I chucked some cash at them and told them to get me some salt. DD called from Wally World in a mild state of confusion. They have 3 kinds of non-iodized salt there, Morton's regular, Morton's kosher, and Tru-Value. I told her to look at the unit pricing for a per pound price. It did not add up correctly. The Tru-Value had a unit price of 59.2 cents per pound, and sells in 1 pound boxes for 86 cents. I had her double check the weight of the boxes just to be sure. The best price on the shelf was for the box of kosher salt, which is going for $2.28 per 3 pound box. That is 76 cents per pound, and a full 20 cents less per pound than the unit pricing on the shelf.
The point of the thing is kiri was inspired by this to double check unit pricing on other things, and it was whacked on a goodly number of items in the food section. So it sounds like it is time to remember the calculators when you have to shop at Wally World. They do this every now and then, it is really annoying.
(1) grandson was over for Yoster, and we have a DVD of Rudolph, and he thinks Yukon Cornelius is really something special. I will probably be spouting quotes for a month.
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Post by LinFL on Apr 10, 2015 10:23:44 GMT -5
Wow, I had no idea that unit pricing errors are so common. I am going to have to start double-checking the ones that set off my mental alarm bells. (I'm fairly good at quick estimating. If something seems off I can do the exact math the hard way or use a calculator.)
But you don't have to be good at math to see that if a 1 pound box sells for 86 cents, the unit price is not 59.2 cents per pound! Still, I think stores get away with this sort of thing because (a) most people don't think to check, and (b) a lot of people are so insecure about their math skills that even if the shelf tag number seems off to them, they will still trust the shelf tag over themselves. (For certain my Mom is like this.)
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Post by nightmist on Apr 11, 2015 8:35:10 GMT -5
Yah. I'm going to go out there myself next week, and if lots of stuff is still messed up I'm going to take pictures and ring up the state boys. This is fricking NY, and the penalty for this kind of thing (if I am reading the law rightly) is $600 per incident per day (I'm not 100% sure on that could be $600 day 1, $1200 day 2, and so on). Doesn't sound like much, but when you have a store screwing up this broadly and not seeming to really care about it, it certainly adds up.
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Post by LinFL on Apr 11, 2015 12:06:45 GMT -5
You go, girl. Especially if there is a pattern of wrong unit pricing making the store brand look better - that would indicate more than just carelessness at work.
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Post by garrett on Apr 17, 2015 11:45:59 GMT -5
Wowwwwwww.that's cray cray.
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