Major Rip Off at 99 cent Store!

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Buckeye

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Well, I am just livid. Let me explain. We were running errands, headed home, when my SO said she needed to get a toy to take home to her fur baby, a Shih Tzu. So I wheel into a 99 cent store (that's what the sign says and what the receipt says). Bought 2 of the 99 cent toys and a bag of $2.49 lays potato chips. What should the pretax amount be? $4.47. Yet it was $4.49 cents. If you look at the receipt, the 99 cent items ring up as 0.9999, not 0.99. Effectively adding a penny to each item.

So I just got shafted out of two cents. Since most people by more items, the store gets an unearned nickel or so from every customer, every day, in every store.

As a retired VP of Accounting of a very large company, I gotta take my hat off to them. Evil Genius.

Rant over. Carry on.
 

I've known about this horrible one cent rip off for years. I boycott the store because of it. Joking of coarse.
 

Pennies....I wish the government would just stop making them....it costs almost 2.5 cents for everyone they create....just round the bill off to the closest nickel. It seems like every couple of months I've collected a pile of them, and I just toss them in the casino fountain when we go to the city.
 
This is true. We don’t have pennies so everything gets rounded off. Ninety nine cent items would become a dollar anyway. If it was .92 cents , it’s rounded off to $.90. I like it.
 
Hoot N Annie said:
$2.99? Last time I was in Petsmart, seems like all the toys were all $8 or $9 or more
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What the heck type of dog toys are you buying? I have a toy lover dog. And I did (and sometimes do still) order dog toys from Amazon. And now every time I get an Amazon box, he thinks it's for him. And now there's that Bark Box that's being advertised on TV. When that ad comes on I cover his ears and eyes. No way is he getting those.
 
This all may be tongue in cheek, or a source of mild irritation

But

Our Dollar Tree has a big sign outside Everything's a $1

my ice drink cost me $1.10
sure, we have deposits, but seems that s/be included in the $1, like all the other itemized expenses of doing business

it bothers me

but not that much
 
Our dollar tree is a dollar each. Never had a problem. I keep all my pennies and take along with other change to the coin star in Food Town. I had collected 3 jars of coins over the years. Finally getting rid of them. Am saving the older dimes to check the silver in them.
 
We have Dollaramas where I live and they are awesome. Not everything is a dollar though. Some things are more but I really like those stores. The other day I bought plant hangers there and paid $3 each for them. That’s canadian money of course but to purchase the same thing elsewhere I would have probably paid at least $8 of $9 each.

We sometimes get dog toys there but prefer to get them at Winners or Marshall’s for 50% off. The toys are more expensive but they last forever. At Christmas Costco has nice dog toys. The ones at the dollar stores fall apart to fast for our dogs.

Ive got a big change jar as well. When it gets full I’ll cash it in. It’s handy!
 
We have several £ (pound) shops here, last year or
maybe the year before one of them started upping
the prices by multiple of a pound, by selling more
upmarket things that were still cheaper than the
other stores, but they were selling them for more
than a pound, they were worth a lot more than a
pound, but their name was "Pound World".

They are finished now, either this week or next,
all their 300 shops close forever.

Mike.
 
Pound world may be closed Mike, and I believe a lot of 99p stores are closing too.. but Poundland are still going and it irritates me now, that they charge a lot more these days for stuff that was a £1.. in some cases £3 or £4... and many times I've found things much cheaper elsewhere...

The other irritant is the 2 for a £1.00..I want a pack of straws for example..one pack, but I can't buy one, I need to buy 2.....
I rarely go into Poundland these days because simply I can buy better quality for similar prices in other stores.


As for the OP>.. I agree it is clever money making on their part..millions of pennies, add up to a very Pretty Penny indeed... but I think your post was kinda tongue in cheek!!
 
Pappy said:
But Gary.....the Dollar Tree has my all time favorite candy...3 boxes Cracker Jacks for a dollar. God, I love that store. :bigwink:
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Mine too!

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And for the record, Boots (the Shih Tzu) totally demolished the toy in less than 30 minutes. Toy stuffing all over the floor. He will not quit until he has eviscerated the toy and removed the little plastic squeaker.
 
Pappy said:
But Gary.....the Dollar Tree has my all time favorite candy...3 boxes Cracker Jacks for a dollar. God, I love that store. :bigwink:
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Oh, I still love the buys...paper...pens...reading glasses
Ohhhh, yeahhhh

I think they have generic jelly bellies too...or maybe that is Dollar General
 
Hoot N Annie said:
And for the record, Boots (the Shih Tzu) totally demolished the toy in less than 30 minutes. Toy stuffing all over the floor. He will not quit until he has eviscerated the toy and removed the little plastic squeaker.
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And that squeaky in the middle is like the lost gold nugget that becomes the NEW toy that gets tossed around.
At least that’s what my little girls do with them. They LOVE tearing those things apart and it’s fun watching them too:laugh:
 
Hoot N Annie said:
Well, I am just livid. Let me explain. We were running errands, headed home, when my SO said she needed to get a toy to take home to her fur baby, a Shih Tzu. So I wheel into a 99 cent store (that's what the sign says and what the receipt says). Bought 2 of the 99 cent toys and a bag of $2.49 lays potato chips. What should the pretax amount be? $4.47. Yet it was $4.49 cents. If you look at the receipt, the 99 cent items ring up as 0.9999, not 0.99. Effectively adding a penny to each item.

So I just got shafted out of two cents. Since most people by more items, the store gets an unearned nickel or so from every customer, every day, in every store.

As a retired VP of Accounting of a very large company, I gotta take my hat off to them. Evil Genius.

Rant over. Carry on.
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Ummm.... where have you been? They changed their pricing to 99.99 cents AKA a dollar several years ago. Not only that, they started carrying items for more than $1.00.

You might want to sit down for this, Hoot. Most Motel 6's are in the $50+ range and Super 8 motels are no longer priced at $8.88 per night.
 

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