Now, tell me again why court cases take forever?

[wombat2u2004]

2 cents here, 2 cents there, it all adds up.

The store needs to get it's act together & get the barcodes in synch
with the register prices. How many tmes have you picked up something
marked at a sale price only to get to the check out and find it does not
match with the register price? Very annoyiing.

Sure does.
And after a year or two you could be 10c richer.
Go for it.
Just think, in another 600,000 years, you could buy a new hairbrush.

[lizbud]

You need to think bigger than that silly man.

.o2 cents x 100,000 people = $2,000. One Walmart gets 100,000 on a slow day.

[Cataholic]

Is that true, Liz? 100,000 people walk in that store? Man..that explains why ours (it is a 'new' one) is already so stinky.........

[Puckstop31]

According to the commonly available statistics the average Wal-Mart has c. 3,000 customers/day.

200,000,000 / 9700 retail locations worldwide.

[Asiel]

I think the woman has had issues with Wal-Mart before, many issues, having time to waste she decided to make an example of them. Can't say it would be worth my time or effort but maybe she had nothing better on her agenda.
I do know the Wal-Mart over here is famous for false advertising...they print an apology in the paper a few days later which gets them off the hook. This happens weekly, people flock to the store for the advertised special only to be told they didn't get the delivery or that it was a misprint in the flyer etc.. The retraction in the paper lets them off the hook.
Wal-Mart is not a popular store with most people around here, they pull some awful scams.

[K9soul]

100,000? The population of the city my Wal-Mart is in is around 25,000. The next closest town is 25,000. I'm pretty sure my store doesn't see anywhere near that kind of traffic.

If there were an investigation done that found multiple products ringing up for a few cents more than the price listed on the shelf, I'd say there was merit to it. Otherwise it just seems like a circus act for the media. $100 is hardly a drop in the bucket for Wal-Mart.

[lizbud]

Is that true, Liz? 100,000 people walk in that store? Man..that explains why ours (it is a 'new' one) is already so stinky.........

Okay, okay, I overstated the number of customers per day. It just seems
to be that many because every time I go, I can never find a parking spot.

But, if you consider the number of customers in all the stores & each
store probably has more than one item priced wrong, then you can see
how the money would add up.

I probably would never do what that women did, but I'm glad there are
people willing to do it for everyone else.

[Lady's Human]

There's a really simple method to take care of this and avoid wasting the court's time.

Raise the issue with store management. (The complaintant was offered the money back....most stores will correct the inventory tag rapidly, problem solved)

Give them time to fix the issue.

If, after time, the issue hasn't been fixed, drive it up the food chain to higher.

If your answer from the store HQ isn't satisfactory, contact your state consumer protection branch and let them take care of it.

If you're still upset about it there's a REALLY simple solution which doesn't involve wasting the time of a court...........don't shop there anymore!

WalMart isn't getting rich from pricing errors, if anything, the ill will they create with consumers makes them lose business. Inventories in a modern store like WalMart involves thousands of SKUs, it's REALLY easy to make a mistake given the volume of items.

[caseysmom]

Target got into a lot of trouble over this, I watch my receipts really close...don't trust the stores

http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/Consumer/s...6415500&page=1

[Lady's Human]

You should watch your receipts, but this woman has abused the system.

There are reasonable ways to take care of issues.

I'm sure the system hasn't changed much in the ensuing years, but 20 odd years ago, the manager would print out the daily price changes in a batch, hand it to the stock staff, and have them make the changes. Now, you're doing this at 0dark 30, coffee hasn't kicked in yet, and being that the stock staff is normally teens/college kids, they may be more interested in flirting with the other employees and socializing than doing their jobs.

If the changes aren't made properly, the first notice the manager normally has is a customer complaining about the price not being correct.

Not everyone is out to screw you, but this plaintiff certainly seems to have a chip on her shoulder.

[wombat2u2004]

Okay, okay, I overstated the number of customers per day.

Now we're getting somewhere !!!!
Could we perhaps label those who overstate or overcharge as walking/talking contradictions ????

[pomtzu]

You need to think bigger than that silly man.

.o2 cents x 100,000 people = $2,000. One Walmart gets 100,000 on a slow day.

Geeze - I was in Walmart this a.m., and I think I was one of maybe a dozen people in the whole store!!! Of course I could find hardly anything I went in for too. NASCAR race fans cleared the place out over the weekend, and the store is getting ready to close down in a few weeks (new Supercenter opening closer to me), so they aren't restocking much of anything. What I did manage to find - I wasn't overcharged on.

I can see making an issue of overcharging by much more than 2 cents - but 2 cents wouldn't even be worth the time and effort. I know it's a matter of principle, but look at the time and effort that went into filing a court case. Since this isn't the first time that this person has had an issue with this particular store, it seems to me that she's milking it for all it's worth. She got $100 on a 2 cent price discrepancy??? - not a bad profit margin at all. I wonder how much she got in her other disputes???

[wombat2u2004]

What I did manage to find - I wasn't overcharged on.

You mean........they wern't trying to maximise their profit at the expense of the public ??? They must be GOOD people.
(Better PM Lizzie about that, she may want to shop there in the future)

[wombat2u2004]

You need to think bigger than that silly man.

.o2 cents x 100,000 people = $2,000. One Walmart gets 100,000 on a slow day.

Geez silly girl, you should have been a mathematician.