Clearly mark one price on the shelf and register rings up a higher price.
Excuse if caught, “oh it must have been in the wrong place” or “sorry it is on sale we just didn’t get a chance to change the scan pricing”
Happens all the time.
Quote: Marcusclark66Just rings up wrong price.
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Clearly mark one price on the shelf and register rings up a higher price.
Excuse if caught, “oh it must have been in the wrong place” or “sorry it is on sale we just didn’t get a chance to change the scan pricing”
Happens all the time.
The store I go to gives the product for free if it rings up the wrong price.
I'm surprised no one has mentioned the growth of self checkouts and the cutbacks in live cashiers.
There is a particular problem with self checkout machines that do not dispense the correct change when paying with cash.
At my particular Smith's (Kroger) here in Vegas one machine does not dispense dimes... and nickels are NOT substituted-- you are short changed. Another machine does not dispense nickels.
I always count my change and I will not leave machine till an attendant comes by and hands me the nickel or dime.
I also think the self checkout machines do not dispense as many coupons as live cashier machines do.
By the way the dime and nickel short pays havent been fixed in months. Clearly they have no intention of fixing the machines.
Quote: AlanMendelsonCanned cheeseburgers and canned whole chicken belong on Chopped!
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I'm surprised no one has mentioned the growth of self checkouts and the cutbacks in live cashiers.
There is a particular problem with self checkout machines that do not dispense the correct change when paying with cash.
At my particular Smith's (Kroger) here in Vegas one machine does not dispense dimes... and nickels are NOT substituted-- you are short changed. Another machine does not dispense nickels.
I always count my change and I will not leave machine till an attendant comes by and hands me the nickel or dime.
I also think the self checkout machines do not dispense as many coupons as live cashier machines do.
By the way the dime and nickel short pays havent been fixed in months. Clearly they have no intention of fixing the machines.
I use the self checkout machines probably 99% of the time. I don't buy produce so for me it is just scanning barcodes. I also have never used cash as I almost never have any.
Quote: AlanMendelson...There is a particular problem with self checkout machines that do not dispense the correct change when paying with cash...
The particular problem with self checkout is people with full carts who don't know what they're doing.
Quote: gamerfreakMost self checkout systems are completely annoying to use. You sneeze and they accuse you of not scanning something.
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but nowhere near as annoying as some cashiers or some customers you get behind when you use them
one time at the self serve cashier I bought white potatoes - $2.99 per pound - but I mistakenly punched in russet potatoes - $.99 per pound
by mistake I gained about $8.00
I wouldn't do stuff like that on purpose - I'm not that cheap
but for a devious person - well, it's not a gold mine - but it's a nickel and dime mine
very little chance they would catch something like that - and even if they did what could they say? - they could say nothing - you're not a trained cashier
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I use the self checkout machines probably 99% of the time. I don't buy produce so for me it is just scanning barcodes. I also have never used cash as I almost never have any.
Ditto here, I was the fastest cashier when I worked as one in the late 80s and I am faster than half of them when I check myself out today.
I once self weighed through 3 Egg Plants. A message came up telling me to await assistance. and a supervisor came to authorise the sale. Because Egg Plant are cheap by weight and the supermarket know they are used by under-payers, they keep a sharp eye on egg plant buyers, who might really be weighing fillet steak or whatever.Quote: lilredroosterlink to original post
one time at the self serve cashier I bought white potatoes - $2.99 per pound - but I mistakenly punched in russet potatoes - $.99 per pound...
very little chance they would catch something like that - and even if they did what could they say? - they could say nothing - you're not a trained cashier.
Quote: OnceDearI once self weighed through 3 Egg Plants. A message came up telling me to await assistance. and a supervisor came to authorise the sale. Because Egg Plant are cheap by weight and the supermarket know they are used by under-payers, they keep a sharp eye on egg plant buyers, who might really be weighing fillet steak or whatever.link to original postQuote: lilredroosterlink to original post
one time at the self serve cashier I bought white potatoes - $2.99 per pound - but I mistakenly punched in russet potatoes - $.99 per pound...
very little chance they would catch something like that - and even if they did what could they say? - they could say nothing - you're not a trained cashier.
You mean chateaubriand and ribeye and bananas aren't all the same lookup code?
Quote: DieterQuote: OnceDearI once self weighed through 3 Egg Plants. A message came up telling me to await assistance. and a supervisor came to authorise the sale. Because Egg Plant are cheap by weight and the supermarket know they are used by under-payers, they keep a sharp eye on egg plant buyers, who might really be weighing fillet steak or whatever.link to original postQuote: lilredroosterlink to original post
one time at the self serve cashier I bought white potatoes - $2.99 per pound - but I mistakenly punched in russet potatoes - $.99 per pound...
very little chance they would catch something like that - and even if they did what could they say? - they could say nothing - you're not a trained cashier.
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No, you just change the code. Peeled onions are more expensive than unpeeled. But you can just weight them up as unpeeled and save. To the eggplants the systems are smart enough to know what a coded item should weigh. So a smart underringer will use something similar in weight not price. For example, you would not weigh ginger up as a watermelon.
Like in "Casino" when Ace says, "if he hadn't been so greedy he'd have been harder to spot."
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No, you just change the code. Peeled onions are more expensive than unpeeled. But you can just weight them up as unpeeled and save. To the eggplants the systems are smart enough to know what a coded item should weigh. So a smart underringer will use something similar in weight not price. For example, you would not weigh ginger up as a watermelon.
Like in "Casino" when Ace says, "if he hadn't been so greedy he'd have been harder to spot."
In case US self serve is different. Here, i'm talking of a situation where one might NOT scan a bar coded kilo of steak, but instead weigh it through, looking it up as a kilo of Egg Plant
I was a Supervisor at Borders Books for a few years - it was a gigantic store
scammers would buy a book with a 30% coupon - then return it later with no receipt and get store credit for the full amount
thinking they were so so slick
I was like - whoa dude - get a life
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In case US self serve is different. Here, i'm talking of a situation where one might NOT scan a bar coded kilo of steak, but instead weigh it through, looking it up as a kilo of Egg Plant
In the USA you do not weigh meat you scan it, So no way you could slip it in fake with an eggplant. I mean maybe you could figure something out but would be better ways to do it like bringing a bar code from something that weighed the same. But high risk.reward. A shoplifting pinch.
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I was a Supervisor at Borders Books for a few years - it was a gigantic store
scammers would buy a book with a 30% coupon - then return it later with no receipt and get store credit for the full amount
thinking they were so so slick
I was like - whoa dude - get a life
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I’m pretty sure the similar process works with Kohls Cash.
Hmmm In the UK, meat is also packed and bar coded. But the only time the station would notice is if the weight on the packing area did not comply with what is expected. The station has a barcode scanner to which you could present the bar code, It also has a scale for weighing produce. So.... Don't scan the barcode on the kilo of steak. Pop it on the scale. Select Eggplant from the screen. Terminal tells you what that is costing and tells you to move it to the bagging area (Which is also a scale). The bagging area sees the expected weight and you proceed with your next item. There was never an egg plant! Would that not work easily in the US. It still works here so long as the store is not on the look out for bogus egg plant buyers.Quote: AZDuffmanQuote: OnceDearlink to original post
In case US self serve is different. Here, i'm talking of a situation where one might NOT scan a bar coded kilo of steak, but instead weigh it through, looking it up as a kilo of Egg Plant
In the USA you do not weigh meat you scan it, So no way you could slip it in fake with an eggplant. I mean maybe you could figure something out but would be better ways to do it like bringing a bar code from something that weighed the same. But high risk.reward. A shoplifting pinch.link to original post
Our terminals mostly have cameras now and screens to remind you that they are watching and recording your face.
making the food inside the package must smaller and charging the same price is getting really bad
I just bought some really tiny Hostess cupcakes - if I wanted to I could have easily put the whole cupcake in my mouth
also bought some really tiny Halls cough drops
it's really getting ridiculous
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not totally fair to blame the stores for this one, more the factories - but the stores are surely complicit:
the price stays the same but the amount of food in the package is less than last week or last month
many times, if the food is sold in a carton the carton is the same size - its just the food inside the carton that is less
ice cream is a good example of this - ice cream used to be sold mainly in half gallons - then maybe 30 years ago the cartons started shrinking - now its nowhere close to a half gallon
Breyers is the worst with this: their cartons are tiny - maybe only 1.5 quarts - as their cartons shrink their price stays the same
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Most "round carton" brands (Breyer's, Dreyer's/Edy's, even Tillamook now) have switched to 48 ounces; most of them did it years ago.
Another example: hot dogs. Nathan's and Hebrew National switched from 2-ounce dogs to 1 1/2-ounce ones. Nathan's even changed their "Bigger Than the Bun" name to "Bun-Length," and switched their larger dogs from 4 x 4 ounces to 5 x 2.4.
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Meanwhile, As to DRich's canned whole chicken. Mum and Dad had one of those in a Christmas hamper in the 70s. I can still remember seeing it plop out of the can. A bit like this...
I have to ask, what is a Christmas hamper?
This. It's a British thing, apparently.
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Another example: hot dogs. Nathan's and Hebrew National switched from 2-ounce dogs to 1 1/2-ounce ones. Nathan's even changed their "Bigger Than the Bun" name to "Bun-Length," and switched their larger dogs from 4 x 4 ounces to 5 x 2.4.
it's really funny that you just mentioned that
one minute ago I opened a pack of Nathan's hot dogs and they're really tiny
I'm going to have to eat 3 of them to get a meal out of it
what a complete joke
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Quote: billryanThe companies are obviously downsizing their products in order to help fight the national obesity problem. They are sacrificing their products for the national good and for this they are the object of your scorn.
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Welcome back.
Quote: billryanThe companies are obviously downsizing their products in order to help fight the national obesity problem. They are sacrificing their products for the national good and for this they are the object of your scorn.
That must be it. Well, either that, or they are testing to see if we would notice, just in case the government does raise corporate taxes, and then throws in a price freeze to prevent the corporations from raising prices as a result. ("There's a price freeze - you said nothing about a size freeze!" In fact, in my college economics class, the professor showed some examples of how this happened during Nixon's national price freezes.)
And I assume that the fact that they didn't lower the prices was also done for our benefit, as otherwise people might notice that the sizes are smaller and switch to other brands that keep the original sizing, thus defeating the reason for reducing them in the first place.
Quote: ThatDonGuyQuote: billryanThe companies are obviously downsizing their products in order to help fight the national obesity problem. They are sacrificing their products for the national good and for this they are the object of your scorn.
That must be it. Well, either that, or they are testing to see if we would notice, just in case the government does raise corporate taxes, and then throws in a price freeze to prevent the corporations from raising prices as a result. ("There's a price freeze - you said nothing about a size freeze!" In fact, in my college economics class, the professor showed some examples of how this happened during Nixon's national price freezes.)
And I assume that the fact that they didn't lower the prices was also done for our benefit, as otherwise people might notice that the sizes are smaller and switch to other brands that keep the original sizing, thus defeating the reason for reducing them in the first place.
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It would be counterproductive to sacrifice the size of your product only to leave the sheeple money left over to buy a supersized soda with a gazillion calories of sugar.
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Another example: hot dogs. Nathan's and Hebrew National switched from 2-ounce dogs to 1 1/2-ounce ones. Nathan's even changed their "Bigger Than the Bun" name to "Bun-Length," and switched their larger dogs from 4 x 4 ounces to 5 x 2.4.
at this moment, 7-Eleven gives a much better deal on hot dogs than buying Nathan's at a grocery store
for $2.00 they give you a quarter pound all beef hot dog on a bun with lots of free toppings
it's really good - but I'd recommend staying away from their chili topping
that stuff is really horrible
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at this moment, 7-Eleven gives a much better deal on hot dogs than buying Nathan's at a grocery store
for $2.00 they give you a quarter pound all beef hot dog on a bun with lots of free toppings
it's really good - but I'd recommend staying away from their chili topping
that stuff is really horrible
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I figured they used Gehl's, but some quick investigation suggests they have their own inferior product custom made.
(I am not a paid shill for Gehl's, nor a paid detractor of 7i & subsidiaries.)
see: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/voraciously/wp/2019/05/20/whats-the-best-hot-dog-in-america-we-tried-15-popular-brands-to-find-out/
There is a convenience store chain here that has great hot dogs for $1.29. If I had to guess they are Hillshire Farms but I am not sure. One of the options is a hot dog with cheese in it that is fantastic. They also offer one with jalapenos in it that many like.
Quote: billryanPerhaps I'm a hot dog snob, but any list that puts Oscar Mayer ahead of Hebrew National is a list that isn't worth reading.
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I don't recall ever having an Oscar Meyer hot dog that I thought was good.
Quote: DRichQuote: billryanPerhaps I'm a hot dog snob, but any list that puts Oscar Mayer ahead of Hebrew National is a list that isn't worth reading.
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I don't recall ever having an Oscar Meyer hot dog that I thought was good.
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Oscar Mayer uncured all beef aren't exactly bad, but they're not really a better value than the other premium brands.
How do you good people cook your hot dogs?
1) boil them in a shallow frying pan. As the water boils off, add some butter. Let all the water boil away and then sear the dogs in the same frying pan.
2) bake them
3) microwave them
4) if cooking for a party or large crowd, simply boil them in a large pot.
5) grill them.
They no longer are a part of my diet.
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Another example: hot dogs. Nathan's and Hebrew National switched from 2-ounce dogs to 1 1/2-ounce ones. Nathan's even changed their "Bigger Than the Bun" name to "Bun-Length," and switched their larger dogs from 4 x 4 ounces to 5 x 2.4.
at this moment, 7-Eleven gives a much better deal on hot dogs than buying Nathan's at a grocery store
for $2.00 they give you a quarter pound all beef hot dog on a bun with lots of free toppings
it's really good - but I'd recommend staying away from their chili topping
that stuff is really horrible
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Any hot dog I have ever seen at 7-11 looks like it has been there since they were 6-10.
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.Any hot dog I have ever seen at 7-11 looks like it has been there since they were 6-10.
you have a point - but have you been there recently?
they have improved
they are now managing the hot dog problem by putting very few on the grill - so they usually don't get too old - but you do have to scope them out
in fact their coffee thing is IMO now excellent - far better than Starbucks which is the most overrated business in the history of the world IMO
they have a high end cappuccino machine and they don't charge more for it - $2 for their smallest size and during promotions you can get any size for $1
they also have an excellent cold brew which I like in the summers - $2 for a very nice size cup__________I'm very, very impressed with their coffee thing
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.Any hot dog I have ever seen at 7-11 looks like it has been there since they were 6-10.
you have a point - but have you been there recently?
they have improved
they are now managing the hot dog problem by putting very few on the grill - so they usually don't get too old - but you do have to scope them out
in fact their coffee thing is IMO now excellent - far better than Starbucks which is the most overrated business in the history of the world IMO
they have a high end cappuccino machine and they don't charge more for it - $2 for their smallest size and during promotions you can get any size for $1
they also have an excellent cold brew which I like in the summers - $2 for a very nice size cup__________I'm very, very impressed with their coffee thing
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7/11 as made new push in the USA after years of decline and then being bought out by their own Japanese subsidiary. I have not been to one lately as they are not convenient for me. And BTW I do not really like hot dogs.
In my parts Sheetz rules the roost. You want food at a C-Store go to Sheetz. In the 80s they were just the aforesaid old hot dogs. Now they are just amazing. They tore the one by me down to be rebuilt by March I cannot imagine how awesome the upgrade will be. People who travel to State College (Penn State U) stop at the one in Altoona as it is Store #1 and where they test stuff out.
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In my parts Sheetz rules the roost. You want food at a C-Store go to Sheetz. In the 80s they were just the aforesaid old hot dogs. Now they are just amazing. They tore the one by me down to be rebuilt by March I cannot imagine how awesome the upgrade will be. People who travel to State College (Penn State U) stop at the one in Altoona as it is Store #1 and where they test stuff out.
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There's probably a Rutter's across the street. I prefer their classy plumbing fixtures.
Quote: billryanAfter years of hearing how great Sheetz was, I finally was around on, in Northern Maryland a few years back. I was very impressed by the store itself, but not at all impressed with the breakfast sandwich, I got. My Mom liked the coffee
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I agree re their breakfast. Their lunch MTO sandwiches I find a cut above a Subway.
Quote: billryanAfter years of hearing how great Sheetz was, I finally was around on, in Northern Maryland a few years back. I was very impressed by the store itself, but not at all impressed with the breakfast sandwich, I got. My Mom liked the coffee
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I like the waffle sausage sandwich. Like a McGriddle but a waffle as the bun. Food of course is each his own but Sheetz keeps adding new things. 20 years ago they had cherry and vanilla to add to your soft drink. Now they have milkshake machines. You have to watch as you can drop $10 in an instant.
But know what I like there? The iced coffee! It sometimes goes on sale for $1.99, I get it when I go for a convertible ride. This is one of those cases of liking the cheaper thing because it is better but cheaper is a bonus. Or the other way around.
Quote: DRichMy new house is near a WaWa. I have heard they have very good sandwiches and look forward to trying one.
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They have good coffee rolls (cinnamon glazed danish).