do you check your grocery bills?
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Do you ever check the prices on your grocery bill after you pay? If you don’t, you’re not the only one. I never used to either.
Until I noticed that I was being overcharged here and there. You know how, when the clerk swipes your items so quickly across the barcode reader you hardly have time to see the prices flash across the display screen.
Okay, to be fair, how many people actually do bother looking at the display in the first place?
We take these things so much for granted we figure anything that’s electronically programmed (as opposed to being manually entered) must be correct.
Either that or we’re just too darned busy packing our own groceries (at self-service stores) to notice. As long as we can hear the beep of the reader when our things go through, we reckon the correct price is going through also.
After all, machines don’t make mistakes. Ah, but we forget that those prices were entered into the machine by people. At stores that hold frequent promotions, there’s an even higher chance of errors in pricing.
I read somewhere that grocery chains make millions in excess revenue a year just overcharging a customer by a few cents. Multiply that by the volume of customers and goods that go through checkout and it shouldn’t be that hard to imagine.
Something I do now: check my bill diligently before I leave the store. Things are expensive enough as they are without me needlessly paying more than I should be.
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