Do You Check Your Grocery Receipt?

Chet

Chet

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I usually don't but today I did at home after visiting the grocery yesterday. I was charged for a dozen donuts when I only bought a half after telling the young twit it was half. She looked like her mind was somewhere else. It's now a pain to go back.
 

Yes. My Wife checks the cash register slip before we leave the store, to be sure we got the proper discounts on the items that were marked down. Once in a while she finds a error, and takes the slip to the customer service desk and has the supervisor look at it.

Here in Canada there is a national agreement that covers MOST retail stores. That agreement works this way...If the price on the shelf does not match the cash register receipt, then the item is FREE, if the price of the item is less than $10. That makes the stores be on top of their pricing accuracy . JimB.
 
Yesterday I received a delivery that was unexpectedly $34 dollars more. I paid, 'cause I couldn't find my reading glasses and couldn't see the receipt. Took delivery; called company and got a $34 credit. They billed me wrong, then admitted it & issued credit immediately.
 

Chet said:
It's now a pain to go back.
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It would probably cost you more in gas than the price of the 1/2 dozen extra you were charged.

I started closely checking receipts when, several years ago, I was out to dinner with 2 friends. The check came and it was unusually high. We had been charged for a $200 bottle of wine...and we did not have wine!! The waiter was really upset (not with us) and kept checking the glasses on the table, etc. It was deducted of course.

Since that time, I have been checking receipts fairly religiously.
I have found minor discrepancies like being charged regular price and not sale price, but the biggy was in TJ Maxx. I had purchased quite a few household items and Christmas decorations. As I stepped away from the register I went over the receipt and found that I had been charged for one $30 item twice.

Good for me that I was still there. I'm not sure I would have been believed had I gone home and went back.
 
jimintoronto, here, in the US, we don't have such an agreement about pricing. It's up to each store to decide. At Walmart, it is the price at the register, not on any sign. Say you want to buy an American flag. In the store, there's jumble of flags with all kinds of prices. But, it does not matter what the price tag supposedly indicates the price is-it's what the price is at the register. So, customers messed up the flag section? Nope. Go into any Walmart, and you will see the same jumble of flags with all kinds of prices. It's marketing ploy to get customers to spend more than the think. And it's totally legal.
 
Yes I do, out of habit I guess .... I like to compare the number of items bought (grocery store) against the total amount spent too.
Gives me some idea of how quickly the prices keep rising.
 
fuzzybuddy said:
jimintoronto, here, in the US, we don't have such an agreement about pricing. It's up to each store to decide. At Walmart, it is the price at the register, not on any sign. Say you want to buy an American flag. In the store, there's jumble of flags with all kinds of prices. But, it does not matter what the price tag supposedly indicates the price is-it's what the price is at the register. So, customers messed up the flag section? Nope. Go into any Walmart, and you will see the same jumble of flags with all kinds of prices. It's marketing ploy to get customers to spend more than the think. And it's totally legal.
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Of course here in Canada Wal Mart was one of the First national retailers to join the National Pricing Agreement. Marketing in Canada is different than in the USA.

When TARGET moved into the Canadian market, they made a lot of stupid mistakes. They assumed that they could carry on as they did in America, with no regard to Canadian rules and regulations. For just one example...They brought employment applications that had a number of questions that are forbidden in Canada, like asking about race, and marital status. They assumed things would be just the same here as in Arizona or Florida, in terms of employment practices. It only took TARGET in Canada 2 years to go bankrupt. They lost millions of dollars because they didn't do enough pre purchase research about doing business in Canada.

Canada tends to have nation wide laws, such as paid 12 month Maternity Leave, a national Unemployment insurance program, which offers people financial grants if they move to a different part of the country, for a new job. Portable nation wide medical care. Trades people can get a Red Seal certificate that allows them to work in any part of Canada, in their trade. We have one national Criminal Code that applies in all parts of the country. We have a national Police Information Computer system that connects every Police Service ( from the smallest to the biggest ) in the whole country, on a immediate basis 24/7 . A national blood services system that provides blood and plasma at NO CHARGE to all Canadians.

JImB.
 
For brick & mortar stores I do 99.5 of the shopping. Old habit of buying a replacement of what we use makes it possible to usually not need more than 10 items. For brain exercise I remember the price & calculate what the register receipt should be. Rarely have a error but when there is one I get the price adjusted right then.
 
I don't usually check, except out of curiosity. For example, this week I bought a treat without looking at the price; when I got home, I checked the price on the receipt.

Occasionally, the bill seems too high, but when I check, it always turns out to be correct. So it doesn't seem worth it.
 
Yes, I do. I was glad when I checked my Aldi's receipt and everything was accurate. The other grocer I had gone to often charged me some of the wrong prices at first. I went back to the store about it once but it's a pain to have to take all the groceries back and get a refund. I prefer to go where they know what they are doing. I do understand mistakes will happen at times but it was way too often. Going to stick with Aldi's. The prices are also much better there, I save a whole lot.
 
That's a good question. I'm sorry that happened to you Chet. I use self check a lot. I check my receipts sporadically but I try to watch as I self scan. Sometimes I use the regular checkout at WINCO Foods and their employees are usually very nice and seem efficient.
 
I only ever check it if the bill sounded higher than I was expecting.. I find it very difficult to read without my reading specs.. so it has to sound alarm bells for me to check it.. altho' I've been known to check it when I got home, and on the odd occasion found I'd been charged for something I didn't have..but it would cost more in petrol to return it..
 
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I do. I noticed that I had been overcharged for an item and started to check more regularly and was surprised how many times it happened, once I was charged for something they didn't even stock! To be fair, it hasn't happened for a while but, I still check anyway because I find it is so annoying if I notice it afterwards.
 
I do check my receipts most of the time. My grocery shopping is mainly limited to a fruit and vegetable store and two smallish grocery stores. It's not uncommon to find an error on the receipts from the grocery stores.
 
Yes always. Our Publix grocery stores will refund price of the item if you are overcharged. It happens pretty frequently.
 

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