Meijers in BLOINGBROOK, IL made a big boo boo

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OK first off some of you guys need to get a life i have stolen nothing. second off to dogtown tom i have sold LOTS of stuff on this board with nothing but positive feedback i ASKED the woman if the was right she said yes. turned the scanner around for me to see

*REM GB 525PK .99*

so it was right i suggest you shut your mouth before you make your self look like even more of a moron.
 
Wow

Good Lord! What a find.

Only thing close to that in my many decades was a 'special sale' on a four-man ruggedized rubber raft discounted to $99 (with coupon). I take the coupon to the checkout counter and ask the clerk if there are any of these left. She says they are selling like hotcakes but she will have the stockroom guys check for me.

A guy brings up a big box and the clerk scans it. Register says $19.95. She still has the coupon in her hand mind you. I say "It that right?" She says "Yes, $19.95, the ad must be a typo."

I buy it.
 
There comes a point sometimes when the computer (which is the only way the clerk knows how to ring stuff up) will only give you the option to pay the stupidly low price, or go without.

I, for one, draw the line at having to go without and drive to another store just to save Wal-Mart the loss their computer error is trying to cause them.

Ultimately, the price of anything is only what the person that owns it charges you for the transfer. There's a sharp upper limit to my culpability to force them to take more than they are asking.
 
Once upon a time stores paid people to go around and put price tags on their items. This cost them not only the salaries of the pricers but money for the guns and the tags. Then one day they switched to bar-codes on all items and decided to do away with individual price tags. The bar codes weren't swappable from item to item since they were part of the packaging so loss to sticker switching was eliminated. Since the bar-codes were scanned errors due to clerks entering incorrect prices were also eliminated. This also meant that clerks did not need as much training or smarts to run the register so they saved additional money by being able to hire lower skilled labor and not having to train them. Now some stores like Home Depot are trying to go the next step and have us, the consumers, run the register at "self-checkout". Now they only have to pay one person for every four registers. All of this savings and loss of jobs is based on the price being accurately entered once at corporate. If the person entering the price in the master list screws up and you as the consumer notice it when checking out and bring it to the attention of the person at the register you have done all that is required of you. If the store employees choose to ignore your warning that their system has failed, then they have a second system that has failed, and if it works out to your advantage then good for you. You warned them of the mistake. You have no obligation to take it beyond that.

The switch to bar-codes and the birth of the store discount card also opened up a whole new revenue stream for the stores since now they could sell the information about what you buy, how much, and when.
 
Not that morality/ethics should be subject to a "survey," but I think this is correct as of a thread reload at 12:59 PM MDT

Do it without warning = 0
Do it with a warning = 19
Don't do it under any circumstances = 3
Indeterminate posts = 3

I tried not to count multiple posts with the same position. And don't jump on me just for doing the arithmetic.
 
Wil Terry and Dogtown Tom have it right and I will have to be counted among the minority here as well.

Situational Ethics and a belief in Relativism have brought us to this point.
 
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Several years ago, I purchased primers by the case at the per box price, (about a dollar/100). I asked the clerk about the price and he even verified it with a supervisor. The guy even gave me a rain check since he was out of large rifle. When I returned to pick up the large rifle primers, they were again insistant that it was the sale price----OK!
I have enough primers to last me a lifetime. Since then, the regular price has more than doubled.
 
Publix Supermarket chain has the policy that if their scanner rings up an incorrect price, they give you that item, free. I've only had that happen to me for a tube of hair gel that rang up at $4.99, but was clearance priced at $1.50.

As for the underpriced ammo, I woulkd also ask the clerk to double-check the price. If they insist on selling me an item at a ridiculous discount, even after I try to correct them, then I just chalk one up to my good luck. I don't think that makes me unethical...
 
gaudio5: ... i ASKED the woman if the was right she said yes...
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Why did you bother asking? You knew the price was in error. I would guess your glee at getting a pallet of ammo for very little $$$ clouded any bit of ethics or moral judgement you might have had. Congratulations.

gaudio5:...so it was right i suggest you shut your mouth before you make your self look like even more of a moron
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I think I look a lot better with the decisions I make in life than the one you made in Meijer. I'm not taking a holier than thou attitude, I'm far from perfect, but I will say your moral compass was on standby that day at Meijer.


As to barcodes/computers/store pricing, mistakes happen. Blaming the store for your lack of honesty is typical of today's attitude of "it ain't my fault!".

Obviously the clerk was inexperienced in what the price should have been. Those of us who are experienced shooters KNOW what the price of a box of new .22's will run. While .99/50 is pretty common for lower end ammo, you KNEW the price was wrong. And you came here to brag about your good fortune.

Consider this:

A blind man is selling pencils, four for a dollar, on the street. You hand him a five and get back three ones and a five. He made a mistake in giving change.

Do you tell him of his error?

What do you when he replies "it came out of the pocket where I keep my ones!"

Some of those on this thread would blame the blind man for the error, probably saying he was charging too much to begin with. Others would justify keeping the change because the blind man was at fault for putting the five in the same pocket as his ones.

You get a block down the street and discover that the box of four actually contains eight pencils. What would you do?

Congratulations on your pallet of .22's. I have no doubt it's not the last time you will acquire such a bargain.
 
I would tell the blind man of his error. If I got a block away I would go back and return the extras or buy them if I needed them. If I told him and he insisted my incorrect change was correct or the incorrect amount was correct then I would tell him again he made a mistake. If he didn't listen the second time I told him I'd take my extra pencils and incorrect change and tell him to have a nice day.
 
Welcome to the wonderful world of 'diversity' that we cling to as a nation to justify (fill in the blank). There is no right or wrong, only a constant gray area that everyone can define for themselves.

This time someone got a 'good deal'. Next time someone else may get the deal at your expense. I doubt we will read a post as excited as this one if you were losing the amount of money you just 'saved.' Instead it would be a rant about how 'I got screwed today.'

It's your character and reputation and you have to live with it, but glorifying it, especially on a forum named the High Road, seems, well absurd to me. I'm sure you can tell who I agree with. :rolleyes:
 
Dealing with a blind man and dealing with a multi-billion dollar corporation is not an apt comparison. If you're buying pencils from the blind, you're doing it out of charity, not because you need pencils.

That being said, I think it was definitely an ethical grey area to clean them out. I probably would not have done it -- I'd just leave with what I came to buy.
 
The mininum-wage clerk was worse than a blind man, because the clerk had no interest in ensuring the profit margin on the product, as the blind man, being a sole proprietor, surely would have.

The bottom line is that if the profit margin was not met on the ammo purchase, the seller lost money on the deal. It seems clear that the purchaser knew that Meijer would lose money on the deal, and probably could also assume that the clerk wouldn't care about it. The thing to do would have been to call the manager, and if the manager said it was OK to sell it at that price, the purchaser should have also asked if it would be OK to buy a large quantity at that price. This would have taken all of about 3 minutes. I think not taking it to the manager demonstrated that the purchaser was knowingly trying to take advantage of the retailer.

Meijer has a contact form on this page, why don't we send them a link to this thread and see what they think?:

http://www.meijer.com/contact/pcaform.asp
 
Blackbeard: ...Dealing with a blind man and dealing with a multi-billion dollar corporation is not an apt comparison...
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If the blind man was wearing a blue vest sitting outside WalMart it would be okay?

My ethics should not change because it is a single man or a big company.
 
Okay, let's switch this.

A man is involved in a severe accident. The insurance company screws around and fails to pay the bills. The person is forced to sell his firearms back to the same business from which he bought them, in order to pay his medical bills.

The firearms store gives the man 33% the value of their original purchase, under the allegation that they will turn around and sell them for 60% to 66% of orginal price.

Two days later, this same man walks in to see the prices, and low and behold, the buusiness is selling the firearms at only $20.00 less than new, yes, 99% of new price, claiming "...NIB. Unfired..."!

Are you equally outraged?! Or is that merely a buiness person trying to make an honest living..."? I fear I already know the answer. It's a shame that some posts take this "...boo boo..." and have turned it into a business "boo hoo hoo!". Save the tears and don't cry in my coffee.
 
Those lost dollars will be shifted elsewhere so it will just cost you down the road. Or when Meijer stops stocking ammo don't start complaining.

I don't know what I would have done in this situation, I always would worry that I might be costing a lowly paid checkout girl her job so I would feel bad. We need to keep a moral compass about us whenever we can. Every time you screw a retailer it costs us all.
 
Not too long ago I had the opposite experience at a store with price tags. I had grabbed a bag of chips with the rest of my groceries; the price tag was $99. Thinking the pimply-faced clerk would correctly ring up 99 cents, right? You guessed it, the idiot keyed in $99 bringing my grocery bag total to over $140.

I pointed out his error, and showed him the suspect bag of chips. To my astonishment he said "that's right, $99. See, it says $99 right there."

He was serious. Clueless, too. Classic case of the dumbing down of America in action.

I walked out.
 
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!"
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Depends on the state and on the error (scanner error, price tag error?).
 
I just got back from a cruise that went to mexico, haiti, etc. We went to buy a few bottles of tequila. The sign up front was posted for 11USD a bottle. We grab I think 4 or 5 and head to the register. Rings up 15USD a bottle. We mention to the clerk that the posted sign says 11 USD per bottle. She grabs a sign in the back of the store that says 15USD but the sign posted in the window to get customers to come into the store said 11USD. We argue for a LONG time about the price and finally she gives in and rings it up for 11USD a bottle. We walk out and realized that she didn't ring up 2 of the bottles. Do you think i'm going to walk back into the store and politely tell her of her mistake when she tried to scam me? :rolleyes: This was in mexico.
 
Yes, it was a price tag error. He picked it up, and the hanging tag said $995.00
 
Situational Ethics and a belief in Relativism have brought us to this point.
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If you DON'T believe in "situational ethics" then you either:

Believe that ALL violence is WRONG and would rather stand by and watch a Jihadi slaughter people at the mall, rather than shoot him.

or

Believe that ALL violence is RIGHT and would shoot someone to death because he beat you to a parking space at Walmart.
 
I wouldn't have said a word. But then again, Meijer has owed me about $120, plus interest, on unpaid overtime from when I worked there in 1993.

BTW I used to work in Iventory Control, believe me when I say that the markup on anything back in sporting goods is going to be in the 50-150% range, AT LEAST. I never did the ammo case, but I'll bet it's even higher there.
 
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