"He hates these cans!"
Posted on 11/04/2004 12:24:57 PM PST by FoxPro
So, do you really save money or are the "regular" prices just inflated to induce you to allow them to track your habits?
I have a card too, but I never liked the idea much.
At the end of the article:
Please "do" feel free to quote me as you see fit on anything that I've written on this web page.
The gas station at the end of my street sells beer cheaper than at Krogers while Krogers sells gasoline cheaper than the gas station.
I'm with you Safeway stores are fine and are NO DIFFERENT then the other chains.
I have cards for three stores around here. It irritates me because I believe the prices are inflated to begin with, not to mention that I have to jam another 3 cards in my wallet.
I will add that there is an old phrase, "Buyer beware." Back in 1962 (I was in second grade), my mom told me that Safeway clerks would have a broom at the checkout counter sitting there and they would intentionally charge every customer for the broom without ever moving it. If someone caught them they would then just say "Oh, I thought that was yours," and subtract the amount from the receipt. The broom would stay to fool subsequent customers.
It never occured to me that it would require all the clerks to be in on it - no way.
On the other hand, this article just proves that smart people pay less for their food, and our prices are subsidized by the "less observant." I always compare the item number on the product to the item number on the sale sign.
So what it all boils down to is that the author is too lazy to read and blames the inevitable consequences on the people who wrote what he's too lazy to read.
This guy is a nut, and most of what he says isn't true. I do the shopping for the family, am very good at numbers and go over the receipt with fine tooth comb, and Safeway gets it right most of the time.
If Safeway did what this clown accuses them of doing, it would be illegal (notwithstanding this moron's assertions that the accused conduct is not illegal).
Right on.
People don't realize how lucky we are to be able to get safe, quality goods at reasonable prices. It's made possible by the free market. People visiting from Soviet bloc countries were always amazed at our stores.
Groceries are a very competitive industry, and we consumers benefit.
If Safeway was so unscrupulous, it would have been sued out of existence and no one would shop there.
"He hates these cans!"
"My wife and I always check our receipts before we leave the store..."
I do the same- I just pull my cart over to the side, pull out the long receipt, and spend five minutes reading through it to make sure everything rang in correctly. Then it's off to the courtesy desk to collect on the overcharge...(they give the item free if it rings in incorrectly)
1. Their intrusive habit of looking at my receipt and saying "Thank you, Miss _____." They pronounce my name wrong EVERY single time. I don't want to be addressed by name, and I don't want the person behind me knowing my name. What's the purpose of invading my privacy? The alternative of carrying around that much cash, sucks.
2. Safeway commercials. Who wants to go into a store and listen to commercials?!! I don't even listen to commercials at home. I certainly don't want to shop and listen to commercials.
3. "Do you have a club card?" The checker's first words to me every time. (No. Don't want to get my name on yet another mailing list. I have enough junk mail. I don't say that, though.)
4. The giant size of everything. I can't carry stuff that gigantic. I don't have the storage space for stuff that gigantic. I've got room on my shelf for a 4-pack of toilet paper, not a 12-pack. I can't carry a 64-ounce glass bottle of apple juice. I can't even lift it. Ever hear of 32-ounces or smaller? (Martinelli makes a 20-ounce size, which is about as much as I can carry. Naturally, Safeway doesn't carry it.) Safeway seems to be turning into Costco with the supersized gigantic-ness of everything.
/rant over - and, NO, I don't feel better
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Laugh ... now THAT is funny!
Bottom line is you have to shop around and be AWARE!
"The point is, don't be foolish enough to trust Safeway's integrity. I mean after all, a large package usually means you're paying less, right? Yeah, well, maybe at a legitimate retailer, but don't count on it at Safeway. If you just toss the Club Pack package from underneath the Club Price sign into your shopping cart, you are very likely going to pay more than you thought. So even if your Club Card plastic were to be scanned in through the reader at the register in this case, it would have no effect for some items. Now I mean that's what happens. So you get to ask yourself if that's what Safeway is hoping for. And the blip, blip, blips of those darn obsolete cash registers sound the same either way. Now this what I mean by deception"
I've worked in the Point-of-Sale business. Most likely these blips are produced by the scanner when it reads the PLU bar code on the item. Whether propritary IBM equipment or the more common PSC (formerly Spectra Physics) or Symbol scanner, the scanner doesn't know sale-priced items from regularly priced items - it just beeps when it successfully reads a bar code. In fact, that is the very purpose of the beep, so that the person scanning the items has an auditory cue as to whether or not the item scanned in.
"You are so wrong on this statement."
I so totally *right* on my statement, since I'm reporting on MY EXPERIENCE with HEB. If you have had better luck where you are, that's great. Down here in Clear Lake City Texas, I get tired of seeing the flies buzz around the produce, even at the newest HEB stores.
Chuck Langenberg clearly has far, far too much free time.
I guess you have a point. I did not mean to be confrontational. The store I visit the large super store format. Just the other day the store had 99 cent gallon milk. Also, if you buy bacon and tropicanna juice you will receive a free can of Maxwell coffee, dozen eggs, bag of flour torts, cup of yogurt and kraft shredded cheese.
You should try the flour tortillas which are hand made fresh in the store (still hot in the bag).
"You should try the flour tortillas which are hand made fresh in the store (still hot in the bag)."
There! I knew we could agree on something! Yep, love those fresh tortillas, that's one reason I still end up in there from time to time.
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not true - Safeway requires you to purchase 2 for the sale price
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