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Other than hawking some of the cheapest yet most breakable electronics around, we simply refuse to believe that Walgreen's can do wrong. Just walking thought their aisles of colorful and affordable products makes us giddy. Well, at least we thought that they were affordable.
According to CBS 5, San Mateo County prosecutors claim that our beloved Walgreens has "agreed to pay $767,000 to four California counties to settle a claim of overcharging customers at its stores." (What! How could you?) It seems that after a routine inspection of Walgreens' price scanners, the Illinois-based chain failed to give many of their customers the lowest advertised price. And at times, according to the report, they even marked up the prices. The nerve.
Guess this means that we'll have to start checking our receipts, which could possibly lead to other dangerous behavior like balancing our checkbook and paying our bills in a timely fashion. Shudder. Still, how dare you, Walgreens. We now plan on buying our two-for-one sleeves of Pringles elsewhere. Hrumph.
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Pringles! They are all little hyperbolic paraboloids. Just like St. Mary's on Gough:
http://www.sfarchdiocese.org/cathedral.html
Pringles!
The store that gets me every time is Safeway whenever I hand over coupons. The coupons never seem to get taken off of my grocery bill unless I am tuned in and watching.
I knew that $700,000 seemed like an awful to pay for a dancing Santa and a plastic singing fish! Next time I am definitely checking my receipt.
There are still some places, where every piece of what is being sold has to have the actual price marked on it.
In other words, no "$1.99" on the shelf that holds the items. Each item has to have a tag too. If there is a sale, each piece has to be re-marked.
It makes it much easier for the consumer to catch mistakes. I think NYC still requires this- it used to.
BTW it's not just Walgreens that conveniently makes mistakes in their databases to screw people.
It happens in most stores.
It's the modern version of the butcher pushing his thumb on the scale as he weighs the meat.
I have been overcharged by Walgreens several times. Mostly nickel and dimed, so small that when I get home and realize the error it would cost more money and waste too much time to go all the way back to the store for 50 cents.
Although I once purchased something that I thought was on clearance. When I brought it to the counter the clerk told me the item was not on clearance and had simply filtered back to the clearance area and charged me full price. Embarrassed, and not wanting to make more of a fuss, I purchased the item anyway, and figured I'd just come back to the store and return the item the next time I was close to the Walgreens. When I brought the item to the counter with my receipt the clerk affirmed it had been on clearance and tried to talk me into keeping it since it was SUCH A GOOD PRICE.