Now, tell me again why court cases take forever?

[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]

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.

[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]

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 ????

[wombat2u2004]

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.

Exactly !!! But of course the perception within some of community is "Hey, they've made a blue, I will cash in on that, and never mind about the time some poor goofball on the checkout gave me change for a ten when I'd only handed her a five. I'm right, they are wrong, and I can prove it. All I need is some lawyer to defend my 2 cents worth. And God only knows, there's plenty of them around"

[happylabs]

It is totally ridiculous and there should be a limit to what someone can sue for. This woman needs her head examined.

[RICHARD]

The court system is in bad enough shape w/o some moron trying to 'make a point' over 2 cents.

I cannot imagine a store manager telling a customer to get lost over two cents, when I have had a problem with a item/charge, I have always been taken care of rather nicely.....It helps to be a overly polite suck-up at times?

Back to the court system?

During the mess with my parents estate I never got any kind of phone call or TIMELY mail from the court about ANY action regarding the property. I made NUMEROUS phone calls and left messages, but was never even afforded a call back or an EFF U in return.

The court case is still going on-when it was time for them to get a company auction the house, schedule the house, get it to go into escrow and a get the family a ton of OTHER info, they could not be bothered. It's a slow system that wears you down.

They did get you some kind of mailing or letter AFTER the fact but to say that the 'wheels of justice' turn slowly?

It's all because of people who are clogging the system down with stupid lawsuits and a system that doesn't give a damn about the people, by the people and for the people.....

[Bonny]

The court system is in bad enough shape w/o some moron trying to 'make a point' over 2 cents.

I cannot imagine a store manager telling a customer to get lost over two cents, when I have had a problem with a item/charge, I have always been taken care of rather nicely.....It helps to be a overly polite suck-up at times?

Back to the court system?

During the mess with my parents estate I never got any kind of phone call or TIMELY mail from the court about ANY action regarding the property. I made NUMEROUS phone calls and left messages, but was never even afforded a call back or an EFF U in return.

The court case is still going on-when it was time for them to get a company auction the house, schedule the house, get it to go into escrow and a get the family a ton of OTHER info, they could not be bothered. It's a slow system that wears you down.

They did get you some kind of mailing or letter AFTER the fact but to say that the 'wheels of justice' turn slowly?

It's all because of people who are clogging the system down with stupid lawsuits and a system that doesn't give a damn about the people, by the people and for the people.....

It is $$$$ to the lawyer, by the lawyer, for the lawyer.

[RICHARD]

It is $$$$ to the lawyer, by the lawyer, for the lawyer.

Besides pro sports, where else can you lose and still get paid?