Grocery store rip off rants

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Check your receipts guys and gals because each time they claim that something is on sale they rip us off if we don't catch the mistake.
I bought Oreos and they were on a buy one get one free sale here in NY over the weekend and they charged me for both packages and when I got home both packages were inadvertently left out of my bag.
I am sick of this because it happens almost every time that I go to the same store.
I have allergies to milk and they charged me for milk one day and I don't buy milk at all. I get home and I have two gallons of milk on my receipt at $3.00 dollars a gallon so that was close to $7.00 dollars if you include tax. I lost the receipt and I ate the charges but I still remember them charging me for something that I didn't buy.
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[JitterbugPerfume]

1. They do this

knowing that most people wont check the recipt , and even if they do, they won't make a fuss over a couple dollars

Know what?? I make a fuss !!

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2. Self serve isles are the best

I have started ringing up my own groceries and my blood pressure has gone way down now.

They know that every time that they have a buy one get one free a certain percentage of people will not notice it but I watch ever thing that they ring up because I hate corporations ripping people off.

[barbaraann]

3. Here's what I've started doing.

The grocery stores around here are having a price war because they overbuilt and now some of them are trying to rip me off every time I shop!

I now operate under the assumption that I will be ripped off so I separate my groceries in my cart according to what is on sale and what isn't. I put the non-sale items out first and then the sale items and stand there and watch like a hawk to see that the price is rung up correctly.

Last week there were some canned vegetables on an endcap with a sign that said they were 5 for $2.00. They rang up 89 cents each! I had to wait while the clerk ran back to check, then got a supervisor to fix the problem, so it was 5 or 10 minutes out of my day. They did give me a can free, though.

Actually, I don't think this is new with grocery stores, sadly, but it seems like it's worse now.

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4. Good Idea

I am sick of paying high prices and ringing and bagging up my own groceries. I am paying the same price as If I went through the isle that they do it for you.

[spinbaby]

6. The excuse is always the same:

"It's the computer!" And don't even get me started on items that have no price anywhere.

I find that the most reliably accurate of all the stores I frequent is a unionized grocery store. They're a bit more expensive but everyone that works there has worked there forever and they always get things right.

[mac2]

5. Grocery store rip offs

When you go to the store do the following:

-Bring a calculator with you. Tally up the amount yourself.
-Tell the clerk you want to hand her each item and see the item posted.
-Go to the customer service department and tell them what has happened (if you have a receipt).
-Keep the receipts for each store visit so you can complain.
-Many stores now have these check out the items yourself computers. Go there.

My pet complaint is they always put heavy stuff on top of bananas and my fresh spinich...fruit.

I've heard complaints in my area of items being mischarged...because the computer programs are behind.

[tridim]

7. I don't want to single out NY, but

when I lived in Queens I got ripped off all the time at the grocery store. I moved to Denver and haven't been ripped off in 4 years. Shopping is one thing I certainly disliked about NYC. The last straw was when a bodega tried to charge me 45 cents for a 32 cent stamp.. I told the guy that it was illegal to mark up stamps and he told me to get the fuck out of his store.

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8. Last weekend I bought some winter gloves

They were marked down to $3.00 dollars and I handed the girl a $20.00 dollar bill and she gave me change for a $5.00 and she was talking up a storm. I noticed the mistake immediately and she took the money out of the register and handed it to me after I mentioned it. If she made a mistake wouldn't she have questioned me and said that she thought that I gave her a 5 dollar bill.