Comments on: Shiny colourful stickers don’t mean low prices http://jeffreysambells.com/posts/2007/07/30/shiny-colourful-stickers-dont-mean-low-prices/ Geek out AFK with Jeffrey Sambells Thu, 02 Sep 2010 22:25:37 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: PamTatroff http://jeffreysambells.com/posts/2007/07/30/shiny-colourful-stickers-dont-mean-low-prices/comment-page-1/#comment-11224 PamTatroff Thu, 09 Aug 2007 19:59:28 +0000 http://jeffreysambells.com/posts/2007/07/30/shiny-colourful-stickers-dont-mean-low-prices/#comment-11224 <p>I noticed this TOO! At Walmarrr.. err.. some "discount" store, they have big tags saying "Price Checked!" (or something to that effect.) They stick out perpendicular to the shelf so you can see it when walking past that aisle.</p> <p>I'd love to see the video surveillance cameras of all the customers that walk over to check the "special" item out only to pause and turn around upon recognition that they have been duped.</p> I noticed this TOO! At Walmarrr.. err.. some “discount” store, they have big tags saying “Price Checked!” (or something to that effect.) They stick out perpendicular to the shelf so you can see it when walking past that aisle.

I’d love to see the video surveillance cameras of all the customers that walk over to check the “special” item out only to pause and turn around upon recognition that they have been duped.

]]> By: Mike Purvis http://jeffreysambells.com/posts/2007/07/30/shiny-colourful-stickers-dont-mean-low-prices/comment-page-1/#comment-10755 Mike Purvis Tue, 31 Jul 2007 13:23:26 +0000 http://jeffreysambells.com/posts/2007/07/30/shiny-colourful-stickers-dont-mean-low-prices/#comment-10755 <p>Hmm, yeah, that seems like a particularly egregious offense... but really, my pattern is more to look at the end price rather than the fact that it's apparently on sale. If I know that a pound of ground beef should normally be ~$4-5, I can identify a bargain whether or not the store sees fit to tell me. :)</p> Hmm, yeah, that seems like a particularly egregious offense… but really, my pattern is more to look at the end price rather than the fact that it’s apparently on sale. If I know that a pound of ground beef should normally be ~$4-5, I can identify a bargain whether or not the store sees fit to tell me. :)

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