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Dollar-stores overcharge customers while promising low prices

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510 points bookofjoe | 2 comments | 07 Dec 25 14:37 UTC | HN request time: 0.057s | source
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nlh ◴[07 Dec 25 15:16 UTC] No.46182273[source]▶
“In one court case in Ohio, Dollar General’s lawyers argued that “it is virtually impossible for a retailer to match shelf pricing and scanned pricing 100% of the time for all items. Perfection in this regard is neither plausible nor expected under the law.””

Sorry—-what? Isn’t that one of the fundamental basic jobs to be done and expectations of a retailer? You put physical things on display for sale, you mark prices on them, and you sell them. When the prices change, you send one of your employees to the appropriate shelves and you change the tag.

When on earth did we get into a world where that absolutely fundamental most basic task is now too burdensome to do with accuracy?

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1. jrmg ◴[07 Dec 25 15:50 UTC] No.46182568[source]▶
It’s virtually impossible for them because they’re not considering hiring more people to do it.

Dollar General stores often run with one overworked staff member doing everything in the store, from stocking to working the register (which is why the register is unstaffed so much and you have roam the store to find someone to ring you up…)

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2. nkrisc ◴[07 Dec 25 16:27 UTC] No.46182883[source]▶
“Because of conditions of our own making, it is virtually impossible to comply with the law, thus we shouldn’t be held accountable to it.”

It’s the same BS when Meta and others say they can’t moderate posts because there’s too many.