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Dollar-stores overcharge customers while promising low prices

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510 points bookofjoe | 1 comments | 07 Dec 25 14:37 UTC | HN request time: 0.205s | source
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iinnPP ◴[07 Dec 25 15:26 UTC] No.46182367[source]▶
This happens at Walmart Canada all the time. The policy there is to slash 10$ off shelf price (or free for anything 10 or less).

Since COVID, Walmart has stopped having immediate fixes of the problem.

Since 2020, I have accumulated about $1200 in free merchandise using the above. Almost always food.

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1. zahlman ◴[08 Dec 25 09:22 UTC] No.46190177[source]▶
I'm in Toronto and I've never had anything ring up incorrectly at Wal-Mart. I can't recall ever having anything ring up incorrectly anywhere else, either. There have maybe been a couple of times where a sale price didn't apply to all the SKUs I thought it did.