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catter70 — Sun, 24 Jul 2022 20:01:13 GMT

Went to Walmart this morning early. Doing my shopping and got a 12 oz. can of Starkist solid white albacore tune. Shelf marked $3.76. Picked up a 3.63 oz. milkyway candy bar. Shelf marked $1,64. Also wanted to buy a 9 oz. package of Hillshire Farms roast turkey, low sodium lunchmeat today as they had none last week. There were about 6 packs all dated sell by June 29. Passed on that. Not good. Checked out and came home. The tuna was actually now $4.12 and the candy bar was $1.68. I know 40 cents isn't much, but how many people does it happen to in the course of a day and it adds up in Walmart's favor, though I'm sure they aren't the only ones. Anyhow, came home went to their wesite to email them, got all the way thru and "sorry, we're having technical issues, try later" Called twice to the store and no one ever answered the phone. I will be taking my receipt back with me next week.

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kaydee50 — Sun, 24 Jul 2022 20:14:48 GMT

Our local Walgreens has pretty much stopped putting prices on shelves. Need to check their flyer online and pay attention at checkout.

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chrystaltree — Sun, 24 Jul 2022 20:21:27 GMT

You're right 40 cents isn't much.

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catter70 — Sun, 24 Jul 2022 20:43:25 GMT

@chrystaltree , I realize 40 cents isn't much, but if it happens to people over and over, it sure adds up for the big box store over time.

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on the bay — Sun, 24 Jul 2022 20:49:01 GMT

I've seen prices on food rise twice even 3 times as much as even a month ago. It was pretty shocking. And less things that are there. Some things here one week, gone the next and some not to return.

I wonder if stores just can't keep up with changing the prices on the shelves!

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Etoile308 — Sun, 24 Jul 2022 20:54:50 GMT

I went to Walmart two weeks ago. It was probably six months since last time I had been there. Yes, many prices are no longer on the shelf. They've removed the price checker scanners they use to have throughout the store. Those were something I always used in the past to verify prices.

So this time before I got in line I stopped an employee to price check seven items. I put four back on the shelf. I wasn't happy with their prices.

It occurred to me to just place an online curbside order next time. That was until I overheard I woman who came into the store to complain about her curbside order. She was upset a couple of prices were higher than shown, and very upset that substitutions were made without her permission.

While the price difference of tuna may only be 40 cents the bigger issue is the deceptive practice of one price displayed and another price charged.

And another store to caution people about is Kohl's. This really surprised me. I picked up a new Yankee Candle product. The price was on the sticker. Upon checkout it rang up two dollars more. If I hadn't been paying attention and mentioned it to the cashier I would have been bitten. I fully understand the rising cost of things, just be open and forthcoming about it.

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San Antonio Gal — Sun, 24 Jul 2022 20:58:40 GMT

@catter70 wrote:
@chrystaltree , I realize 40 cents isn't much, but if it happens to people over and over, it sure adds up for the big box store over time.

I agree that if it happens over and over, it adds up. However, .40 cents isn't worth my time to go online, call the store, and now having to go down there in person with the receipt. Too much time spent chasing .40 cents.

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SilleeMee — Sun, 24 Jul 2022 21:07:13 GMT

I do WM curbside pickup and I don't usually have any issues with their pricing online. If anything I get a refund back onto my cc if something I bought went on sale right after I placed my order.

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Porcelain — Sun, 24 Jul 2022 21:07:35 GMT

I'm impressed you can remember the exact prices on the shelves for all those items. Whatever you're doing for your health and memory etc, keep doing it! It's working for you.

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PA Mom-mom — Sun, 24 Jul 2022 21:18:59 GMT

@catter70 I had this happen to me at ShopRite when the prices started going up earlier this year. The eggs were listed at $1.39/doz and were $1.79 when I checked out (something like that). It reminded me of when I worked for an R&D company and we bought precious metals. We would try to get in on the purchase before the price went up each day. Yes, it is on Walmart that they didn't keep up with the shelf pricing, but this may have to do with understaffing problems. Perhaps give them a pass this time and watch the prices come up as you check out next time. It is frustrating.

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gidgetgh — Sun, 24 Jul 2022 21:44:07 GMT

I'm much more concerned about the 6 packages of Turkey that expired a month before.

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gidgetgh — Sun, 24 Jul 2022 22:02:17 GMT

I know it all adds up, but I basically buy the same things every week. I really don't pay attention to the price on the shelf vs. what rings up as the cashier is scanning the items. I'm too busy putting things on the belt and getting my credit card out and moving forward to get to the credit card thingy. I just don't pay that close attention. Maybe I should, but my hat is off to all of you who can remember every single shelf price.

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CoffeeNut — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 02:13:24 GMT

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Trailrun23 — Sun, 24 Jul 2022 22:23:03 GMT

One good reason to do the self checkout...you can see what each item rings up. I, unfortunately, went to the closest Walmart this afternoon and I noticed many things ring up far more than what is posted. I hate that. Their prices are higher than Kroger now. It is not as much about the money as it is being lied to about how much they are charging. Someone paying cash may not have enough cash to pay for everything. I wanted eggs, but they were only selling two cartons taped together, so no way to know how many might be broken, so I passed. The WM by us is just awful. On the rare occasion I need to go to WM, I take a 20 minute drive to another one that is clean and not packed with too many non-shoppers in the store. I figured out today that there were several teen-aged girls, full makeup, hair meticulously braided, and wearing thong shorts...wandering around the store, to see and be seen. Some of them hooked some guys ( or vice-versa) who looked quite a bit older than them, and I wonder if this is how some of the human trafficking happens...we get Amber Alerts almost every morning now. The girls usually go with the guys willingly, then learn they are being enslaved after they leave the state.

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Trailrun23 — Sun, 24 Jul 2022 22:26:34 GMT

My trip to WM, I had a list of 9 things I needed...I found five of them. Nothing to even substitute for the things they didn't have on my list.

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FiddleDeeDee — Sun, 24 Jul 2022 22:44:45 GMT

Our local Publix got themselves into hot water by having the checkout scales at the cashiers weigh items MUCH heavier than what their label says (meat, poultry, fish) and produce where you weigh the item on a scale. Talking almost double the cost for pricer products. Initially customers were told they were "imagining" things and management was a tad rude. Well, those same customers put it out on our private FB page WITH PICTURES and suddenly you had many who live here stating the same thing.

The manager is now gone and if a customer states a weight is off, everything stops and someone comes and walks WITH the customer so they can check everything.

We don't know how long this has been going on because when you're buying a lot of product/items, you may not catch it. It is surmised that Publix would have been able to continue the practice but got greedy with the meat and yeah, you're going to notice a $25 steak costing $60.

Keep on top of it, folks. Greed knows NO bounds.

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KathyM23 — Sun, 24 Jul 2022 22:48:11 GMT

@gidgetgh and @catter70 I'm thinking that whoever made the sticker with the expiration date of June 29 actually meant it to be July 29 since OP said there was none of the turkey on her visit the previous week. It probably was an error as I doubt the expired turkey could remain there almost a month without someone bringing it to their attention plus the fact that there was none the previous week. Hopefully that is the answer.

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Trailrun23 — Sun, 24 Jul 2022 23:00:46 GMT

Years ago, I found packages of pita bread in front of the deli counter at Albertsons that were a week out of date...I told the deli manager who wa slicing turkey for me and he thanked me for letting him know. When I went back a week later, the same pita bread was there, then two weeks out of date. Expiration dates are a big deal to me, but don't matter at all to some people. If the milk I am pouring has chunks in it, I toss it!

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sunshine 919 — Sun, 24 Jul 2022 23:10:24 GMT

@catter70 wrote:
Went to Walmart this morning early. Doing my shopping and got a 12 oz. can of Starkist solid white albacore tune. Shelf marked $3.76. Picked up a 3.63 oz. milkyway candy bar. Shelf marked $1,64. Also wanted to buy a 9 oz. package of Hillshire Farms roast turkey, low sodium lunchmeat today as they had none last week. There were about 6 packs all dated sell by June 29. Passed on that. Not good. Checked out and came home. The tuna was actually now $4.12 and the candy bar was $1.68. I know 40 cents isn't much, but how many people does it happen to in the course of a day and it adds up in Walmart's favor, though I'm sure they aren't the only ones. Anyhow, came home went to their wesite to email them, got all the way thru and "sorry, we're having technical issues, try later" Called twice to the store and no one ever answered the phone. I will be taking my receipt back with me next week.

This is chronic at Walmart. Things are never in the right place, most do not have price tags. During Christmas I asked the manager to sell me the items according to the price on the shelf. I had one manager just change the price another incident a manager walked with me and she sold it to me for what the sign said. There were several items in the wrong place and the manager made to effort to change them. These items were in the toy department. You also have to watch the self check out I had an item ring up for 22.00 when it was a 3.99 item. They took out all the scanners where you could check the price as you shop where I live. An employee told me I can put the app on my phone and scan. I told him why would I do that? I do not walk around with my phone when I am shopping. I am slowly doing grocery shopping at other stores. Very few cashiers at Walmart. People with a full cart find them selves scanning their whole cart.

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drizzellla — Mon, 25 Jul 2022 00:05:18 GMT

@CoffeeNut wrote:
The Walmart closet to me is having major staffing issues. For a month now they are doing no curbside or delivery. Freight is stacked shoulder height along all the main isles and about half of the clothing department. A lot of the shelves are empty because the freight is on the floor in boxes.

They don't have enough employees to do the online shopping, do price changes, stock the shelves, etc. It's a big mess there.

Yesterday, Saturday, the closest grocery store to my house, had only one employee to check out. Saturday at about 12 noon is such a busy time. And they only had one cashier showing up to work.

Then you see where people in stores are just walking out with merchandise. There was a picture today, a guy walked out of BJs with $5,000 of Rogaine.

You can't go into any store with tons of signs saying that they are hiring.

PS - I stopped at a Dollar Tree today because I needed birthday cards. There was one cashier. She was the manager of the store. She was the only cashier for the past 3 hours. She kept hoping someone else would show up. At least there was a kid there to stock the shelves. He was also on the look out for hopefully another employee showing up.