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Wyndham Founder; Disney OKW & SSR; Marriott's Willow Ridge, Shadow Ridge and Grand Chateau; Val Chatelle, Pines at Meadow Ridge and Twin Rivers in CO; Hono Koa OF (3); SBR(LOTS), SDO a few); WKORV-OFC-4 and Westin Desert Willow.
That is a stupid article. One store had some items marked differently from one another, and that is a scam? Sounds like a price increase and older pieces didn't get marked up to the new price. Sloppy, but not a scam.
Seems old stock sells at lower prices. People should be happy. Everyone else just sells old stock for more when there is an increase. Move the item to see if there is one with a lesser price.
That is a stupid article. One store had some items marked differently from one another, and that is a scam? Sounds like a price increase and older pieces didn't get marked up to the new price. Sloppy, but not a scam.
Wyndham Founder; Disney OKW & SSR; Marriott's Willow Ridge, Shadow Ridge and Grand Chateau; Val Chatelle, Pines at Meadow Ridge and Twin Rivers in CO; Hono Koa OF (3); SBR(LOTS), SDO a few); WKORV-OFC-4 and Westin Desert Willow.
So familiar . . . You saw exactly the same thing during the 1970's inflation. It got so bad that by the end of the 1970's places stopped individually stickering items, and just put prices on the shelves.
Wow, this sparked a memory! 50 years ago I worked in the readymade drapery department at Montgomery Ward's. At some point the price on some packaged draperies had been raised. The shelf placard with the available sizes had the correct prices, as did most of the packages. The customer and I had to rummage through the shelf to find her enough of the size she needed. Up at the cash register I started ringing things in and discovered that several packages, probably buried at the back of the shelf, had the old lower price. I pointed that out to her and that I was charging her the lower price on those marked that way, and the higher, correct price on those marked that way. Next shift I worked the department manager let me know the customer had come back to get the lower price on everything. I still think that was pushy when I thought I was doing her a favor!
Twelve years later Cliff and I were grocery shopping. The shelf price on some wine, said one thing and the bottles had stickers with a lower price. Not like we’d cleared the shelf out, so not sure what triggered the clerk to peel the incorrect price off our couple of bottles and charge us the shelf price. If there was a bar code scanner, I’m surprised he would have even noticed the sticker. Anyway we balked at having him remove price tags and charge us more. He stood his ground, we walked out leaving a week’s worth of groceries at the register. I cried when we got to the car because we still had to go somewhere else to shop for groceries.
We fired off a snail mail to the corporate office. I am unsure if we got a response, it certainly wasn’t an invitation to come back and get some free groceries! A couple weeks later Cliff told the story to work cronies at lunchtime (actually this makes me think we got a letter of apology that prompted him to tell the story) and come to find out one woman’s son worked at that store. Apparently the wrath of corporate was visited upon them and they were told to forever after honor sticker prices.
Wyndham Founder; Disney OKW & SSR; Marriott's Willow Ridge, Shadow Ridge and Grand Chateau; Val Chatelle, Pines at Meadow Ridge and Twin Rivers in CO; Hono Koa OF (3); SBR(LOTS), SDO a few); WKORV-OFC-4 and Westin Desert Willow.
I like Hobby Lobby but stopped crafting quite a few years ago and have downsized our junk in our basement. I threw out a lot of my paints and stencils, and I was trying to do Glass Magic art, but the finished product never really looked like stained glass. I bought the real thing for my windows.
I have found Michael's to be easier to order custom frames for some prints we bought, but I always use coupons because the regular prices on custom frames is crazy. I wish I could find the exact size I need, but I really like ornamental frames that bring out the color in the print. My Thomas Kinkade prints sure look gorgeous in the frames we bought at Michael's.
I don't dislike any company. Entrepreneurs are what built this country.
In some municipalities it is against the law (civil) to charge a customer the higher price on identical items. The statutory damages were so great that predatory law firms would look for these situations in these cities.
This was ~20 years ago and laws may have change, also HL may not do business in these jurisdictions.
In some municipalities it is against the law (civil) to charge a customer the higher price on identical items. The statutory damages were so great that predatory law firms would look for these situations in these cities.
This was ~20 years ago and laws may have change, also HL may not do business in these jurisdictions.
I agree that it was probably a lazy clerk that did not remark the older items but simply pushed them to the back of the shelf. No one seems to complain when Gas Stations immediately increase the price of Gas when the price goes up per Barrel. Even those prices are for delivery 3 to 9 months later.
Wyndham Founder; Disney OKW & SSR; Marriott's Willow Ridge, Shadow Ridge and Grand Chateau; Val Chatelle, Pines at Meadow Ridge and Twin Rivers in CO; Hono Koa OF (3); SBR(LOTS), SDO a few); WKORV-OFC-4 and Westin Desert Willow.
I agree that it was probably a lazy clerk that did not remark the older items but simply pushed them to the back of the shelf. No one seems to complain when Gas Stations immediately increase the price of Gas when the price goes up per Barrel. Even those prices are for delivery 3 to 9 months later.
Well, I do my best not to shop at Hobby Lobby for unrelated reasons, but this is the weirdest "scam" I'd ever hear of. It doesn't really make sense - what is the scam here? That there's older stock you can buy cheaper? Given all the dynamic pricing, coupons, whatever else today... The best plan is look at the sticker price on the item, stand fast that at checkout to ring up at that price, and if you don't like the price don't try and buy it...
Sounds more like just an outdated inventory control system. This is exactly why grocery stores, Walmart, Target, etc have went to the bar code pricing system where they only post one price in front of all similar items. Can you imagine how hard it would be for them to physically reprice ea item when raised or lowered. Not a scam, just a poor business model. This probably happens everyday in stores, we just don’t see over zealous writers calling it a scam.
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