When I first walk into the local Price Less store, there are stacked metal bins with is MADE TO…read moreSEEM as if the current items in said bins, are on sale, at that moment.
Not so!
IF they bother to put up a sign , the sign will have what is to be the "sale price" in bigger lettering. In smaller lettering, you'll see it isn't actually on sale until a week or two, later.
Not technically, legally FALSE ADVERTISING, just more under handed business practices.
A lot of our elderly people only see the price, get the item NOT ACTUALLY ON SALE, YET, and are none the wiser that they were DUPED.
Within some of those same bins, there may be, say, cake mixes of all varieties. So, the big lettering shows price below a dollar; great, right?!
Not so much. In tiny letters the sign says "select varieties only". It never says anything like, "Yellow cake mix variety only", so you get duped at the register.
The older employees know the scams, and EVERY TIME I call out the GRIFT, the older women ALWAYS blame it on "new stock boys, young and don't know what they are doing".
The store also attempts to make you FORCE BUY, by keeping lower priced items out of reach on the very top shelf, pushed back, where you can see the item, but it's ever out of reach. If you really need the item, then you are inconveniently FORCED to buy the more, over stocked, expensive choice.
I see the elderly struggling to see the price stickers that are impossible to read, as the type-set is as tiny as the devil's contract is where the devil promises that the devil's NOT in the details.
And forget about reading the stickers on the items sitting on the lower shelves! Impossible for an elder to stoop as low as the store, itself!!
And, lastly, the "new, young stock boys" always gets the blame for for putting the cheaper store brand in the slots of the higher priced name brands slots, as to deceive the customer into actually buying the high priced name brands, thinking it's a better value, that day, instead of the always cheaper store brand.
When I go shopping there (as I have very little choice in the matter, I am vigilant. I not only look after my own welfare, but try to help the elderly and the struggling poor, in my community.
