Re: Beware HEB pricing scams.
CJT
> A few years ago I noticed Albertson's devious pricing scams; this is where
> they advertise or product place a great buy, a great deal, and then:
>
> 1. Stock the shelves with a very expensive lookalike or simular product
> 2. Always be out of stock with empty shelves for the on sale product, but
> "accidently" put a simular higher priced product crowding the shelves right
> next to it and "Accidently" spilling into the for sale item's area.
>
> Albertson's is infamous for this illegal tactic, they just haven't been
> investigated nor caught yet and I'm just waiting for a 20/20 expose and
> some honest managers with smoking memos to come forward, hopefully.
>
> Now aprarently HEB is doing the same.
>
> Point in fact:
>
> My bill the other day was for approximately 35 items.
> I caught at the register one scam and refused it.
> When I got home I noticed two other errors of overpricing, purpusful
> overpricing.
> That's 3 overprices out of 35. Do the math. That is a huge profit
> inducer.
>
> The one I caught was really dirty and sneaky; they had almost all their
> apples on sale for 99.c a pound, all in a row, all together. I picked out
> 4 and the scanner registered them as $1.99!!!!! a pound. This was on
> purpose. They have those little stickers (annoying) on the skin and that's
> what it read. Those apples were boxed in with the .99c a pound.
>
> I missed: HCF franks on sale at $1.99 range up at $4.79 and another item
> range up about a $1.00 more.
>
> Taken all together, on a bill of approx $67, if I hadn't caught the apples,
> they would have overcharged me about $6.00.
>
> THAT'S A 10% OVERCHARGE!!!!!
>
> Watch your reciepts and bills like a hawk, slow down their checkout lines
> if you have to, they're depending on your reluctance to do so and just say
> "oh, forget it, I'll take it". Don't let them get away with this illegal
> practice.
>
Did you go back to the customer service desk and get them corrected?
I've found them to be very customer oriented.
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Jason Stanley
happens. bastards.
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John E. Carlson
I suspect that it is much more likely that the minimum wage stocker that was
putting out the Apples made the mistake.
I seriously doubt that it was intentional.
This is the result of the penny pinching society that we have. Lowest
price=poor service.
Ribkings
They redate old meat at the burnet, 2222 corner all the time.
Almost any meat you buy there goes bad in a day or two.
They do not do this at Central Market.
Logan Shaw
> I don't know about you, but my time is worth more than the $6.00.
Yes, but assuming this is all true, preventing HEB (or anyone else)
from establishing a regular habit of overcharging people is more
important than the time that's more important than the $6.00.
In other words, it's not about the one-time $6.00 extra charge;
it's about keeping people in check so that it doesn't become
standard practice to overcharge.
Having said that, I usually watch what they charge me, and it
seems to be pretty close. It helps to go to the self-service
checkout lanes so that you can watch everything that happens
more easily.
- Logan
Logan Shaw
> "accidently" put a simular higher priced product crowding the shelves right
Simular? Was the higher priced product some form of expresso?
Did you go nookyoolar when you found out about it?
- Logan
Sam Hayes Merritt, III
If you are buying meat at HEB instead of your friendly neighborhood
meat market... you get what you deserve.
sam
Chuck
"Mapanari" <an-non...@fakemail.com> wrote in message
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>
>
> A few years ago I noticed Albertson's devious pricing scams; this is where
> they advertise or product place a great buy, a great deal, and then:
>
> 1. Stock the shelves with a very expensive lookalike or simular product
> 2. Always be out of stock with empty shelves for the on sale product, but
> "accidently" put a simular higher priced product crowding the shelves
right
> next to it and "Accidently" spilling into the for sale item's area.
>
> Albertson's is infamous for this illegal tactic, they just haven't been
> investigated nor caught yet and I'm just waiting for a 20/20 expose and
> some honest managers with smoking memos to come forward, hopefully.
Oh... you *noticed* what they were doing? Well, I am sure that if one
customer out of hundreds of thousands of Albertsons customers noticed, it
must be common practice there, huh?
Just watch what you pick up off of the shelf.
Albertson has always been more than happy to hand out rainchecks on out of
stock sale items.
>
> Now aprarently HEB is doing the same.
>
> Point in fact:
>
> My bill the other day was for approximately 35 items.
> I caught at the register one scam and refused it.
> When I got home I noticed two other errors of overpricing, purpusful
> overpricing.
> That's 3 overprices out of 35. Do the math. That is a huge profit
> inducer.
How can you *prove* that it was "purpusful overpricing" [sic]?
>
> The one I caught was really dirty and sneaky; they had almost all their
> apples on sale for 99.c a pound, all in a row, all together. I picked out
> 4 and the scanner registered them as $1.99!!!!! a pound. This was on
> purpose. They have those little stickers (annoying) on the skin and
that's
> what it read. Those apples were boxed in with the .99c a pound.
Is it possible that maybe a few of the higher priced apples may have got shu
ffled around and ended up getting mixed up with the apples that were on
sale?
>
> I missed: HCF franks on sale at $1.99 range up at $4.79 and another item
> range up about a $1.00 more.
Possibly an oversight? Human error?
>
> Taken all together, on a bill of approx $67, if I hadn't caught the
apples,
> they would have overcharged me about $6.00.
>
> THAT'S A 10% OVERCHARGE!!!!!
>
> Watch your reciepts and bills like a hawk, slow down their checkout lines
> if you have to, they're depending on your reluctance to do so and just say
> "oh, forget it, I'll take it". Don't let them get away with this illegal
> practice.
>
Gee, I do agree here. Watch the prices as they ring up your purchase.
Remember, things do happen and mistakes are made.
In Ft. Worth, the Albertsons that I shop has the scanners that you can take
with you and scan as you shop. This is a great way to keep an eye on
pricing. So far I haven't scanned anything that was priced different from
the price tag.
They also have the self checkout. You can watch the prices that way also.
Hey Mapanari, watch out for those guys behind you. They are out to get
you...
BOO!!!! haha
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So... I disagree with you, so now I am blind and stupid?
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Richard Hunter
<an-non...@fakemail.com> coughed and sputtered, and managed
to choke out these words:
>Watch your reciepts and bills like a hawk, slow down their checkout lines
>if you have to, they're depending on your reluctance to do so and just say
>"oh, forget it, I'll take it". Don't let them get away with this illegal
>practice.
i went to HEB last night and picked up some refrigerator magnets
(in the greeting card area). they were marked $3.79, but at the
register they rang up $1.89!! those fucking bastards! how dare
they do this to me!
david
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Richard Hunter
<jo...@nova1.net> coughed and sputtered, and managed to choke out
these words:
>I suspect that it is much more likely that the minimum wage stocker that was
>putting out the Apples made the mistake.
trust me, produce stockers at HEB do not start at minimum wage.
david
ps: Mapanari's a troll. you can tell by the way he responds to
anyone that disagrees with him.
Richard Hunter
<an-non...@fakemail.com> coughed and sputtered, and managed
to choke out these words:
>Maybe <snip> I dint [sic] make myself clear<snip> in my first
>post?
>
>This is done on purpose.
why would you do that?
david
Richard Hunter
coughed and sputtered, and managed to choke out these words:
>So... I disagree with you, so now I am blind and stupid?
*now* you see the troll!
david
Mike B
<snip>
> Albertson's is infamous for this illegal tactic, they just haven't
> been investigated nor caught yet and I'm just waiting for a 20/20
> expose and some honest managers with smoking memos to come forward,
> hopefully.
Hmmm... lemme see. So its public knowledge that they do this and no-one has
bothered to prosecute them? Nice conspiracy theory. I'm infamous for robbing
the blind, I've just not been investigated or caught. Maybe 20/20 can do an
expose on me?
>
> Now aprarently HEB is doing the same.
>
<snip>
> The one I caught was really dirty and sneaky; they had almost all
> their apples on sale for 99.c a pound, all in a row, all together. I
> picked out 4 and the scanner registered them as $1.99!!!!! a pound.
Yea, right. They take some nice, big delicious apples and mix them in with
the shrunken, shrivelled ones at 99c/lb. Theu purposely add those little
stickers to stop scammers (hint) from trying to sneak top-shelf apples
through as the bargain-priced apples.
> This was on purpose. They have those little stickers (annoying) on
> the skin and that's what it read. Those apples were boxed in with
> the .99c a pound.
Watch your fractions there big guy!
I can almost see those cashiers snigger after they caught you trying to
defraud HEB. (After all, if you can accuse them of fraud, on the basis of
the evidence you present, it could just as easily be you.)
>
> I missed: HCF franks on sale at $1.99 range up at $4.79 and another
> item range up about a $1.00 more.
Just because items are adjacent to one another does not mean that both are
at the sale price. Caveat Emptor!
>
> Taken all together, on a bill of approx $67, if I hadn't caught the
> apples, they would have overcharged me about $6.00.
>
> Watch your reciepts and bills like a hawk, slow down their checkout
> lines if you have to, they're depending on your reluctance to do so
> and just say "oh, forget it, I'll take it". Don't let them get away
> with this illegal practice.
And for this you have proof? An employee training movie or something else?
Or are you just slandering some corporation without a basis in fact? I
challenge you to take the overpriced items back with your receipt and demand
your money back.
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Richard Hunter
<an-non...@fakemail.com> coughed and sputtered, and managed
to choke out these words:
>Richard Hunter <returnt...@ddressunknown.com>
>wrotenews:kp5jn0ln8tju03ubj...@4ax.com:
>
>> On Fri, 22 Oct 2004 22:55:24 GMT, "Chuck" <ch...@host.invalid>
>> coughed and sputtered, and managed to choke out these words:
>>
>>>So... I disagree with you, so now I am blind and stupid?
>>
>> *now* you see the troll!
>
>Yes, I am a troll. I don't like arguing with my bed post nor people who wear
>diapers.
case in point.
Chuck
> "Chuck" <ch...@host.invalid> wrotenews:wdged.8794$Lk3.5103
> @newssvr12.news.prodigy.com:
>
>
> >> >
> >> You really are a blind and stupid man you know?
> >>
> >>
> >
> >
> > So... I disagree with you, so now I am blind and stupid?
> >
> >
> "arguments" are so childish, stupid and uniformed I really don't need to
> waste time with you.
>
Yes, you are right. I was blind and stupid... That I didn't see a troll and
that I tried to reason with a troll.
You call me "childish" and "stupid", but who is it that is doing all of the
name calling?
Bye...
CJT
> Richard Hunter <returnt...@ddressunknown.com>
> wrotenews:kp5jn0ln8tju03ubj...@4ax.com:
>
>
>>coughed and sputtered, and managed to choke out these words:
>>
>>
>>>So... I disagree with you, so now I am blind and stupid?
>>
>>*now* you see the troll!
>>
>>david
>
>
> diapers.
>
Jason Stanley
"Mapanari" <an-non...@fakemail.com> wrote in message
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> "Jason Stanley" <jlstanl...@mmm.com> wrotenews:clbgne$ncu$1
> @tuvok3.mmm.com:
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>> PRICE CHECK ON TAMPONS! The one time I do my wife a favor and this
>> happens. bastards.
>>
>
> Do you still order your rubbers online becuase you're ashamed to buy them
> in the store?
> Does buying any personal hygene products make you blush and stammer?
> Do you have to have sex in the dark?
> Does your dog mind this?
>
> Then you're a girly man with strange bestial habits!
>
> If someone looks at you while you're buying the tampons do you?
>
> 1. blush, stammer and go into long explanations about how they're for you
> wife?
> 2. Ignore the look and just assume they're looking at that hideous wart
> on
> your neck instead?
> 3. Look back and politely explain "These are for my ass. I have a
> terrible
> leakage problem after being in prison for 20 years and a lowerbunk bitch
> to
> a whole tribe of african americans, and if you sniff down here? See? You
> can smell that I'm probably leaking some right now...go ahead, sniff, it's
> ok I don't mind!"?
> 4. Pretend they're for your dog?
> 5. Act crazy and mutter "Little white candy bars, sooooo soft, I love my
> little white cotton candy bars!"?
> 6. Pretend they're the 79 year old lady's up ahead in the line?
>
>
>
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> Mapanari <The_...@anonmail.com> wrote:
> > [ . . . ]
> His Excellency, Mapanari
> Bishop of the Austin Chapter of the
> Flying Spaghetti Monster, Lord of all.
>
> PLONK!
Good move. ;-)
A.fs may have survived if more people had done just that...
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gorf
> So, you disagree with me calling a big business a thief, and yet you seem
> to be perfectly fine thieving yourself?
Didn't catch the beginning of this one, but I have noticed HEB putting
more expensive items in places where cheaper ones should be (i.e. looks
like a simple mistake made by a bad stocker or even a bad customer).
I've seen the same thing at Target. Even when I worked retail and had
all of the boxes in the right spots they would be in disarray at the end
of the day because customers were too lazy to put things back where they
found them.
But yes, big business sucks regardless because the consumer and the
working man both get shafted.
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