Meijers in BLOINGBROOK, IL made a big boo boo

[gaudio5]

so i go to pick up some 22lr for the range today at the local meijers i see they have a entire case stacked with remington golden bullet 525 packs i ask for 2 @ $15.99 she rings it up and the scanner says .99 cents i ask her if thats right she says yes.............................


needles to say i now have more boxes of 22lr then anybody..... if you have seen the cases at meijers there HUGE.....

thank you to meijers in Bolingbrook IL

 

[gaudio5]

BTW they wraped it on a pallett for me if that helps with the ammount

 

[10 Ring Tao]

 

[Kalashnikov]

I would have too if I had a deal like that.

 

[Rembrandt]

After Meijers discover the mistake, they'll probably take it out of the checkout girls (minimum wage) pay or fire her.

(....mumble....mumble......why can't I ever find deals like that?.....mumble....mumble)

 

[Warren]

The checkout girl is not responsible for what it scans as, but she should have kicked the issue up to her supervisor. I would have, but then I know more or less what a box of .22 should cost.

If my supe said okay and signed off on it. I would have asked Gaudio5 to leave me some and would have called a relative to come down and buy it for me and take it home.

I also, if I could get access, would have started scanning all the other ammo to see what other deals there might be.

If I was in that situation would it have been cheeky to use my employee discount as well?

 

[Geno]

I love errant prices, and yes they are binding. A few years back I located a new Rolex at Tiffany in Chicago for $995.00!!! The manager immediately said, "That can't be right!" He checked; it was really worth $2,995.00! He said, "Well, under Illinois law, I have to sell it to you at that price if you buy it within 90 minutes, otherwise, it goes to the $2,995.00!"

 

[Warren]

Doc, I had the same thing happen to me only it was two cans of baked beans. So yeah, we're about even on that sort of thing.

 

[Black Adder LXX]

That is great... for you... (Why don't I ever find deals like that)...

 

[CannibalCrowley]

There's no "s" in Meijer.

 

[Deanimator]

Back in the early '90s when I was still collecting military surplus rifles, there used to be a company which always advertised in Shotgun News. They had a two page add with charicatures similar to those a current advertiser uses. They had a reputation as sharp operators who'd cheat you if they could, sometimes even doing dangerous things like cleaning up coroded military ammunition in a sand-filled cement mixer. Sometimes you'd get random different caliber ammunition in your bulk surplus ammo.

They used to come to the Ohio Gun Collector's Association Show in Cleveland. There were always three of them, a surly older guy, a kind of dweeby kid, and a cute but slow girl. We used to call them them the "Bundys", "Al", "Bud" and "Kelly".

We got to one show very early. "Bud" and "Kelly" were putting out ammo cans of Prvi Partizan rifle ammunition, which we used in great quantities. The ammunition we were interested in, 7.62x54mmR, 7.92x57mm, etc. had no prices. We asked Kelly how much it was. She then asked US how much it was. Startled, we looked at each other and replied "$5 a box". She said, "Ok!" and we carried off enough military ball to take Monte Cassino. Over my shoulder, I saw "Al" return and after a few seconds, begin screaming at "Kelly" and "Bud".

I think they're out of business now, probably the lone deserving victim of Clinton's BATF attack on gun dealers...

 

[Jim Watson]

Back when Academy Sports was sellin 9mm Blazer for under $4/50 a friend picked up a case. It scanned at $3.89. He was ethical and explained to the clerk that $3.89 was the box price and there were 20 boxes in that case. She said, "No, that is what the computer says, $3.89 plus sales tax." He quit arguing, paid up and left with his thousand rounds.

 

[erict]

$.99...... I would have emptied my wallet or ran them out of stock, whichever came first.

 

[hotpig]

My wife works in a Kroger store and they have a tag clerk that is responsible to make sure that things scan it at the right price. Mistakes happen all the time.

If I was managing the store they had better not happen routinely or some one else would have the job.

 

[evan price]

I recently was in a big-box home improvement store and needed some Sawzall blades. We go through a lot of them at work and at home. They have the blades hanging on pegs, loose. The price tag is on the plastic hanger on the end of the peg. Lying on the shelf under the rack was a shrink-wrapped bundle of blades. Blu-Mol, "The Aggressor" cobalt-bi-metallic, 6" 6tpi, for demo work with nail embedded wood. There's 40 in the pack. I figured, as much as we use them, buy this now and not need to run out for blades again.

Clerk scans the pack, comes up at $3.89. I look at her, she looks at me. I paid her.

Same thing happened at a different big box home-improvement store. They had 3M sandpaper sheets (cobalt) in the large contractor packs. They have ten packs shrink-wrapped in one bundle stuffed into the shelf boxes where the individual packs should be. Same thing, clerk rings up the bundle for the pack price. I went back and cleaned them out.

I now have sandpaper and sawzall blades to last a lifetime.

Turns out they come like that from the maker to the warehouse, the stocker is supposed to open it up and individually refill the rack. Somebody got lazy.

 

[Wil Terry]

You Men Are Rationalizing Being Theives And Lowlifes.

How do you look at your lying selves in the face in the morning. Go ahead, let me hear more of your rationalizing of not doing the right thing. It is just an inspiration to all the dirtballs out there.

 

[buy guns]

How do you look at your lying selves in the face in the morning. Go ahead, let me hear more of your rationalizing of not doing the right thing. It is just an inspiration to all the dirtballs out there.

Haha whatever makes you feel better about paying retail

 

[Jim Watson]

Just remember, every time you take advantage of an ignorant clerk, the prices go up to make up for the loss.

 

[230RN]

Balance is everything

Wanna buy me a Lotto ticket? Just one will do.

I will ask to double-check the price on things like that, but then again, I'm the guy who will tell the clerk s/he gave me too much change. My honesty has gotten me into more trouble than not, but that's the way I was brung up by me Mommy an' me Poppy an' me Brudder an' me Sister.

However, after one attempt at correcting it, I will gleefully accept the error and walk away chortling to myself, twirling my moustache and looking furtively back over my shoulder.

Sort of makes up for all the times I've got home and found myself overcharged for something because of a scanning erir. Like sale price tags on the shelves that somehow don't get entered into the computer system. Hmmmmmm.....

May the circle be open, but always unbroken.

 

[General Geoff]

How do you look at your lying selves in the face in the morning. Go ahead, let me hear more of your rationalizing of not doing the right thing. It is just an inspiration to all the dirtballs out there.

If you ask the clerk to make sure the price is correct, and she confirms that yes, it is, then there's no ifs ands or buts about it. You're just getting a really good deal. End of story.

 

[dogtown tom]

While I love a good deal, I have to believe the original poster knew that he was taking advantage of that clerk. What I find most disturbing is he thinks he will get congratulated here.

While purchasing a mismarked Rolex may have been legal under some state law regarding advertised items, the hoodwinking of a retail clerk is without a doubt morally and ethically wrong. Stealing is stealing. Period.

I see no difference between a shoplifter, a price tag switcher, or someone who KNOWS that the item is part of a quantity pack and should be rung up separately.

Jim Watson:
Back when Academy Sports was sellin 9mm Blazer for under $4/50 a friend picked up a case. It scanned at $3.89. He was ethical and explained to the clerk that $3.89 was the box price and there were 20 boxes in that case. She said, "No, that is what the computer says, $3.89 plus sales tax." He quit arguing, paid up and left with his thousand rounds.

I too, had that very same experience at Academy. When I corrected the clerk she said "Uh...okay". Who knows, I might just have saved her job that day. Quite a few companies use "secret" shoppers to test the customer service skills of their employees.

I was told long ago that a man's true character is what he does when no one is looking (or in this case, paying attention). I would like to believe the price of being a moral, ethical and honest man is more valuable to me than the few dollars that I saved on a case of ammo. It also doesn't hurt to show the clerk that there are a few honest people out there.

guadio5- good luck selling anything to anyone on this forum. I know I would be hesitant to buy from someone so at ease with deception.

 

[Blackbeard]

The big-box stores hire the lowest-skilled people they can possibly run a store with, and thereby save money over hiring experts. By doing so, they gain profits at the risk of their employees making the types of mistakes described by the OP. You would never see this kind of mistake at a sole proprietor gun shop. I didn't draw up their business model for them. If they choose to instruct their employees not to think and to do whatever the computer tells them, then they'd better be sure the computer tells them the right thing.

That said, they still deserve a chance to correct the obvious error. If they confirm the price, then I say thank you and leave with my bargain.

 

[jwr_747]

I've been thru the same thing at Sears,had a display of Craftsman power saws 10 feet from the check out with a BIG sign for $ 79.95. got one checked out,scanned @ $15.95.I told the clerk the sign says 79.95,he called his supervisor,punched a bunch of keys on the computer,said to me " sir,the corporate invoice says $15.95" told him thank you and payed.so no matter how honest you are or want to be,if you try to give Mr. Computer $79 for a item that Mr. Computer says is $15,Mr. computer is going to tell Mr./Ms clerk,"they made a mistake.but I guess if you are truly in line for " saint hood"you could send corporate the correct amount.in which case Mr. Computer is going to catch it,send you a refund check for the same amount,plus several 10% off cupons for your inconvenience. jwr

 

[Deanimator]

You Men Are Rationalizing Being Theives And Lowlifes.
How do you look at your lying selves in the face in the morning. Go ahead, let me hear more of your rationalizing of not doing the right thing. It is just an inspiration to all the dirtballs out there.

I made an offer on some ammunition.

It was accepted.

If I'm going to work as a management consultant to a business, I expect to be compensated appropriately.

 

[Coronach]

If the OP had just smiled and taken the ammo, I would agree with the naysayers. However, he called it to the attention of the employee. Once that has been done, it's on them. If he went back and bought that many boxes at that price, believe me, a manager would have or should have noticed.

This assumes that the OP really made a reasonable effort to inform the store of their error. If they insist the price is 99 cents after several mentions that it must be a mistake, I'm not going to argue anymore.

Mike