I cannot fucking stand it when vendors do not post prices. Several vendors at the local farmer’s market don’t post the prices of their wares. Listen, you god damned unwashed hippy, I don’t want to discuss why your produce is so much better than everybody else’s due to your daily massaging of the zucchini. Like any other commercial venture, I’m here to comparison shop. I WILL NEVER buy any thing from you. There are 30 other farmers selling organic heirloom tomatoes. Generally, I’m going after the best looking and cheapest ones.
I’m trying to buy a coffee bean grinder at Macy’s. There are 4 different manufacturers. All the devices are pretty much the same. What I’d like to buy is the cheapest one. None of them have a price tag, and there is no sign. The saleswoman tells me that prices change all the time and that there is a scanner on the other side of the store that cannot be seen that will tell me what the price is. Hey, I don’t want to walk across the store to scan 4 different coffee grinders. Just put up a god damn sign with the prices and quit making excuses you stupid corporate drone.
I’m shopping for down jackets at the North Face in San Francisco. There are no prices on the racks and no price tags. WTF? Excuse, me where are the prices? The salesgirl tells me that the tags are stuck in the pockets. WHAT FUCKING OCD MANAGER has decide that this is a sensible idea? Christ, I already know that it’s North Face in San Francisco and everything is outrageously overpriced.
Mexican market produce manager, here’s a hint. Each day, at the beginning of the day, walk through the produce aisle and check which items are missing price signs. Put up signs for the ones that are missing. This makes life much easier for your clientele and your clerks. You do realize that your customers are generally extremely price conscious or else they would be shopping at the ridiculously expensive Lazy Acres organic food market.
Listen you morons, the whole idea is to make a purchase as easy as possible. This is fundamental business sense. Put the fucking prices on everything, will ya?
Or even worse: They put the price on the shelf, and then some stoned low-level employee puts the wrong product in that spot on the shelf because he’s too lazy and out-of-it to bother figuring out where the item is actually supposed to go. Shopper thinks, “Wow, this fish-splooge is only $9.99, as the price tag affixed to the shelf clearly states.” Shopper takes the item to the register. Cashier scans it, and beep, it comes up as $67.88, or other such ungodly price having nothing to do with the price tag on the shelf.:smack: ATTENTION STORES - STOP :smack: DOING :smack: THIS :smack:
This is obviously intentional—you select a nice, fat jícama and ask “how much is this?” The grocer then sidles over, doffs his sombrero, and plaintively informs you that you have chosen his very favorite jícama of the entire crop, which he lovingly raised himself from a tiny sprout, and with which he could not possibly bring himself to part. Unless, of course… El señor brought with him a modest amount that he might be willing to spend to obtain such a precious item?
'fraid I can’t get behind ya on the farmer’s market rants, pal. They don’t post prices? They’re as good as shouting that they’re willing to undercut the competition – if you take the time to haggle with them. If you’re after the cheapest price for the best quality, you’ve got to give up some of your oh-so-precious time. Them’s the breaks.
(As the saying goes: you can have it fast, cheap, or high quality. Pick two.)
Macy’s? To the pit with 'em. That’s just stupid.
North Face? To the pit with you. If cost is such an object, as evidenced by your treatment of the hippies’ zucchinis and heirloom tomatoes, then you shouldn’t have set foot in the store in the first place. Duh.
Mexican market? Eh. Depends. Is it a family-run, little shop on the corner market, or a Mexican SuperMegaGonzoMart? If the latter, I’m with ya. The former, see Farmer’s Market.
A lot of the time this is because a fellow customer has decided they don’t want the item in question and just dumped it on the nearest shelf. Sometimes they don’t even look for a shelf, they just dump it on the floor or abandon the cart. Such as the cart of meat I found that had been sitting in an out-of-the-way spot for long enough that the meat in question had warmed up to room temp. Or the watermelon on the floor in lingerie. (I worked at Wal-Mart for a bit over a year. I now won’t even set foot in one.)
Sometimes it’s because the staff. But if it’s just one or two things it’s probably another customer. Those people make a surprising amount of work for the staff, lemme tell ya.
Once I found a couple of pounds of deli roast beef tucked behind a package of underwear. I did not wish to speculate as to the reasons behind this, but I’m fairly sure that an employee was NOT responsible for that placement. Also, the beef was at least a day old. I did give it to an employee for disposal.
Of course, you could carry the coffee grinders up to the check out counter, have the clerk scan them, and then stand there and consider your purchase. If enough people did this, maybe the store would get the idea that they should post the prices or at least have a LOT of scanners around the store. And let them re-shelve the rejects as a further lesson in customer service.
Indeed. Sometimes it’s idiot customers. My beef is when there’s a bunch of identical items, all neatly stacked and centered over a price tag that turns out to be the wrong one - obviously the work of a stocking-clerk who fucked up.
That’s exactly what I do. If the prices aren’t clear, I bring several items to the register and ask the clerk to please scan them and tell me which one has the lowest price. They’re usually happy to do so.
Don’t most states have laws that require that prices be posted? Even completely unrealistic ones like the list prices posted on car windows. So report them to the local authorities.
On something like the Farmers Market, complain to the organization managing the market.
I don’t understand. What’s so difficult about asking someone what the price is? All you have to do is engage them as a person and…oh wait, let me read your post again:
Okay, I get it. You don’t want to talk to them as PEOPLE because you’d rather deal with impersonal stereotypes. Well, sorry to shake your confidence in the world, but hippies & Mexicans actually do bathe sometimes. If you do smell something, maybe that stink is your deodorant wearing off, or maybe it’s just the stink within your own brain.
I agree. There is a small chain here in town called The Big Ugly Warehouse that advertises cheap prices. I went there looking for a hot tub. No prices on any of them. I figure if their prices really were better than the spa stores, they would be displaying them in large letters. I won’t go back.
We just had a price problem yesterday. We went into a little farmers market to pick up a couple things. Why were passing the deli counter we seen deli bacon for $1.99 a pound. We thought that was a great price and decided to buy a pound.
The clerk gets the bacon and tells us it is $4.99 a pound. We point out that the sign says $1.99. She does not believe us and had to come around the case to see it for herself. She then states that is the price that it is going to be tomorrow when it goes on sale.
We insist she sells it to us for the $1.99 as the sign states. When she types in the code for the bacon it came up as $1.99 so even the computer was already set up for the sale.
If things are not going to be on sale until the next day then don’t put the sign up or clearly state on the sign the date of the sale and then take sale signs down when the sale is over.
My biggest pricing peeve is when they place signs in such a way that you think that the item on sale is the better product of a selection but it really the cheaper of them. The sign says the sale price and which product is on sale but then they place those products on the bottom shelf and place the better quality item in front of the sale sign. Knowing the bargain is to good to be true you then waste five minutes trying to locate the item number from the sign to the item number on the box only to discover the crappy one is on sale.
I can only assume that they think you won’t notice the price difference when you go to the checkout or if you do you will continue the purchase anyway.
Jeez indeed. You were so busy responding to the racism card that you neglected to notice that the OP didn’t play it. He did not say that Mexicans don’t bathe or that either Mexicans or the managers of Mexican markets (note that he was identifying the market as Mexican, not the proprietor) smell.