Beware of produce ripoff by scanners

[PRICEPLUS]

****ake is a censored word?

[PRICEPLUS]

Oh< I get it it. DOH!!!

[emmiedahl]

I have had a lot of problems with our local Walmart on this. It makes me SOOO mad and the lines are too long to go back through. They always fail to scan the coupons properly, and then when I go to a manager I have no proof that I had a coupon in the first place.

Just one of many reasons I avoid shopping there...

[benosayi]

when I have coupons, I use self serve. Even if the coupons says, don;t double, the self serve always does.

[Tightwad Kitty]

Here I have to watch scanner as well, but as we don't coupons I don't have that problem. But at one supermarket chain they don't even let you see what they are ringing up so you need to be extra careful when shopping there.

As I do check all dockets before I leave the area in all supermarkets, ithat I can be seen from the checkouts by the staff which can be advantage at times too!

Last time I went there, I bought Fruit & Nut Mix which was on a Thursday & sales alway start on Monday's here. So on checking the docket I was charged full price and not special price in the catalogue for that week. So I end up getting it for Free. They were not happy that I did pick it up I would think, so how many others had gone through paying full price.

[Judi Dial]

As someone whose seasonal job at a farm stand just ended, I'd also say that sometimes it IS the customer who makes the error.

I had someone show up with a pie pumpkin and demand the carving pumpkin price. The pie pumpkins were .24 a lb. more than the carving pumpkins. I knew what she had, and where she got it, but she was going to fight me to death over it, and so I gave her the cheaper price.

That sort of thing seems to happen most often with folks who count every penny. I sympathize, but it is possible that sometimes you might (or I for that matter!) read the signs incorrectly. Before you get really positive the cashier is trying to gyp you or doesn't know the product you're buying, please go back and double check the sign. More than once when I've done this as a customer, the error has been MY fault.

I try to stop BEFORE I leave the market and read my receipt. Like most of us, I've found errors and miskeys, and had to go to customer service to get them fixed. (The last time we went to the market, we were being charged for two 1/2 gallons of milk, we'd only gotten one. That one I caught at the cashier.)

But before I go complain, I reread the signs. Frequently, if I'm wrong, I simply return the item I bought, Sometimes, the cashier/scanner was wrong and I get it for the correct price. But about 1 in 3 times, I'm the guilty party, not the store.

Judi

[Joan.of.the.Arch]

After we got home, I checked the receipt from the small import grocery we shop at once or twice a month. Tofu was on the receipt, yet we had bought none. Everything we did buy was on the receipt. No one's groceries were on the belt with ours, so no one's tofu got accidentally scanned. This is the first time that I think a grocery clerk has possibly intentionally cheated us. What could have been going on? Husband usually shops there alone; now he will always check the receipt before leaving.