{"id":16867,"date":"2024-07-05T22:59:19","date_gmt":"2024-07-06T06:59:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/?p=16867"},"modified":"2024-07-05T22:59:19","modified_gmt":"2024-07-06T06:59:19","slug":"companies-not-double-checking-store-price-labels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/companies-not-double-checking-store-price-labels\/","title":{"rendered":"Companies Not Double Checking Store Price Labels"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One way to get great deals from stores oddly enough is through price errors where the tagged price is actually cheaper than the listed price.  This is usually a result of an old sale price that hasn\u2019t been changed and as a result the store has to honor the price error.  This is more common in large supermarkets I find where these places simply don\u2019t have a dedicated price checker.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/grocery-item-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"16869\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/companies-not-double-checking-store-price-labels\/grocery-item-2\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/grocery-item-2.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"853,484\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;Alan Yu&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1720222266&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"grocery item 2\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/grocery-item-2-300x170.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/grocery-item-2.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/grocery-item-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"853\" height=\"484\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-16869\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/grocery-item-2.jpg 853w, https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/grocery-item-2-300x170.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/grocery-item-2-768x436.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 853px) 100vw, 853px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s why this was funny I thought as I was scrolling through the aisles and say that there were these cans of sardines.  Interested in what the price was, I had to do a double take as there didn\u2019t actually appear to b e a price at all.  Instead, you can see it looked like there was a placeholder label of sort as the price.  I believe this was one of those digital displays too versus a sticker.<\/p>\n<p>But it highlights how you can often find so many of these types of errors and makes you wonder if it is actually cheaper to just honor the price error occasionally versus hiring someone full time to constantly check the prices.  I actually wouldn\u2019t doubt if that was the case.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One way to get great deals from stores oddly enough is through price errors where the tagged price is actually cheaper than the listed price. This is usually a result of an old sale price that hasn\u2019t been changed and as a result the store has to honor the price error. This is more common [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16868,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[4],"tags":[5760],"class_list":["post-16867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-price-check"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/grocery-item.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6VnHC-4o3","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16867","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16867"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16867\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16870,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16867\/revisions\/16870"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}