Comments on: The Missing Law http://retailbandit.com/2006/08/the-missing-law/ When checkout isn't simple Tue, 10 Apr 2012 00:21:50 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Anonymous http://retailbandit.com/2006/08/the-missing-law/comment-page-1/#comment-167 Anonymous Wed, 17 Jun 2009 09:11:52 +0000 http://www.retailbandit.com/?p=17#comment-167 I am a customer service person I get people who go to a automatic do it yourself register try read the wrong barcode(not the clearance one but the other one only to find out that is exempted out of the msa I get people who put different tags(and badly too) on items to get it it I get people who tell me something is onsell its not in the system and its not in the newspaper i go ahead and adjust and they get mad b/c they can't get the msa b/c no psyical proof, I am sorry the ones that are honest but we really do get to alot of scammers and do not care how much they hurt people to try to get their way so we have to put a guard up and protect ourselves form these aholes, that is way most customer people look unhappy and don't last long on the job harrdly<br /><br /><br />Ok in the law the item has to be physically marked not in a ad or and not a shelftag it must be on the item itself A customer must have prooof Its like the suer getting yelled at by judge judy for having no actuall proof. ANd the stores are allowed to about 50 exempt<br /><br /> alot of stores try to even compesate when they can't give the law out all willy nilly sometimes<br /><br /><br />People wonder why our country is going to hell(economy,jobs wise) and why other countries try to kill us for being the ruler of all evil I am a customer service person I get people who go to a automatic do it yourself register try read the wrong barcode(not the clearance one but the other one only to find out that is exempted out of the msa I get people who put different tags(and badly too) on items to get it it I get people who tell me something is onsell its not in the system and its not in the newspaper i go ahead and adjust and they get mad b/c they can't get the msa b/c no psyical proof, I am sorry the ones that are honest but we really do get to alot of scammers and do not care how much they hurt people to try to get their way so we have to put a guard up and protect ourselves form these aholes, that is way most customer people look unhappy and don't last long on the job harrdly

Ok in the law the item has to be physically marked not in a ad or and not a shelftag it must be on the item itself A customer must have prooof Its like the suer getting yelled at by judge judy for having no actuall proof. ANd the stores are allowed to about 50 exempt

alot of stores try to even compesate when they can't give the law out all willy nilly sometimes

People wonder why our country is going to hell(economy,jobs wise) and why other countries try to kill us for being the ruler of all evil

]]> By: Michael http://retailbandit.com/2006/08/the-missing-law/comment-page-1/#comment-166 Michael Wed, 17 Jun 2009 02:33:32 +0000 http://www.retailbandit.com/?p=17#comment-166 The Item MUST have the price marked on it, if the item does NOT have the price marked on it you are not allowed to get the bounty. If you tell the cashier of the price change and the price is changed at the register you are also not allowed the bounty. The Item MUST have the price marked on it, if the item does NOT have the price marked on it you are not allowed to get the bounty. If you tell the cashier of the price change and the price is changed at the register you are also not allowed the bounty.

]]> By: Anonymous http://retailbandit.com/2006/08/the-missing-law/comment-page-1/#comment-162 Anonymous Thu, 30 Apr 2009 21:50:00 +0000 http://www.retailbandit.com/?p=17#comment-162 You only need your receipt. You only need your receipt.

]]> By: Anonymous http://retailbandit.com/2006/08/the-missing-law/comment-page-1/#comment-161 Anonymous Mon, 27 Apr 2009 12:21:00 +0000 http://www.retailbandit.com/?p=17#comment-161 I went to Chowhound on Friday night and we got 2 bags of 44 lbs. Iams dogfood. A sale flyer showed the price as $31.99 per bag, and there was a bright orange price sticker on the bags, showing the sale price of $31.99.<br /><br />I just looked at my receipt this morning (Monday) and noticed that I got charged full price ($38.99) for each of the bags. I'm pretty sure they used a scanner, and the prices were not manually entered by the cashier. <br /><br />So this means that I should be able to get the difference in price ($7 x 2) plus another $5 bounty, totalling $19.00, correct? <br /><br />Do I have to haul both 44-lbs bags of dog food back to the store with me to prove that there was a sale-priced sticker on them? I went to Chowhound on Friday night and we got 2 bags of 44 lbs. Iams dogfood. A sale flyer showed the price as $31.99 per bag, and there was a bright orange price sticker on the bags, showing the sale price of $31.99.

I just looked at my receipt this morning (Monday) and noticed that I got charged full price ($38.99) for each of the bags. I’m pretty sure they used a scanner, and the prices were not manually entered by the cashier.

So this means that I should be able to get the difference in price ($7 x 2) plus another $5 bounty, totalling $19.00, correct?

Do I have to haul both 44-lbs bags of dog food back to the store with me to prove that there was a sale-priced sticker on them?

]]> By: Anonymous http://retailbandit.com/2006/08/the-missing-law/comment-page-1/#comment-157 Anonymous Tue, 31 Mar 2009 00:55:00 +0000 http://www.retailbandit.com/?p=17#comment-157 I work for a department store and know the law well. The Item must be priced and scan at another price other then witch it is priced. This law was setup to help the stores not hender them. In all stores around Michigan hours are cut on the employes, do to no buddy buying and to many people trying to get something for nothing. All you are doing when you abuse the law is hurt your self. Because the stores have to pay a fine for the bounty, witch makes prices go up. Next time you try to get a free ride, think of what is right.<br/>Dee I work for a department store and know the law well. The Item must be priced and scan at another price other then witch it is priced. This law was setup to help the stores not hender them. In all stores around Michigan hours are cut on the employes, do to no buddy buying and to many people trying to get something for nothing. All you are doing when you abuse the law is hurt your self. Because the stores have to pay a fine for the bounty, witch makes prices go up. Next time you try to get a free ride, think of what is right.
Dee

]]> By: Anonymous http://retailbandit.com/2006/08/the-missing-law/comment-page-1/#comment-152 Anonymous Mon, 02 Feb 2009 15:04:00 +0000 http://www.retailbandit.com/?p=17#comment-152 I have a question. A local store carrys a brand of spray paint that will soon be "non-stock". Meaning, the manufacturer is no longer making that color of spray paint. The store still carries that brand, just not the color. The store put on a bright orange "clearance" tag that reads $1.00. The normal price of the item is $4.00. Cashiers at registers of the store know to charge only $1.00 for the price of the spray paint as it is clearly noted on the bright orange tag. Automatic check out's do not. If a customer goes to an automatic check out and scans his item, the item will read $4.00 as the barcode cannot be changed (all the other brands that are in stock have the same bar code). So, what happens in this case? The customer pays more than the tag says and demands his bounty.. Does he get it? I have a question. A local store carrys a brand of spray paint that will soon be “non-stock”. Meaning, the manufacturer is no longer making that color of spray paint. The store still carries that brand, just not the color. The store put on a bright orange “clearance” tag that reads $1.00. The normal price of the item is $4.00. Cashiers at registers of the store know to charge only $1.00 for the price of the spray paint as it is clearly noted on the bright orange tag. Automatic check out’s do not. If a customer goes to an automatic check out and scans his item, the item will read $4.00 as the barcode cannot be changed (all the other brands that are in stock have the same bar code). So, what happens in this case? The customer pays more than the tag says and demands his bounty.. Does he get it?

]]> By: Anonymous http://retailbandit.com/2006/08/the-missing-law/comment-page-1/#comment-151 Anonymous Fri, 16 Jan 2009 02:17:00 +0000 http://www.retailbandit.com/?p=17#comment-151 I understand that the employees hate paying out the bounty law, but without it, there is nothing holding the big corporations accountable. If I am being over charged $1 and they sell 50 of those items a day for a whole month, they are making out great. They don't think twice about letting us pay more but they get their panties in a bunch when we hold them accountable? Sounds like a double standard. For those that do get docked out of their wages, take the time needed to do your job correctly. If I made multiple small errors it would cost me my license, a patients life and my job, not just a couple bucks. Tye Tye Ann Arbor, MI I understand that the employees hate paying out the bounty law, but without it, there is nothing holding the big corporations accountable. If I am being over charged $1 and they sell 50 of those items a day for a whole month, they are making out great. They don’t think twice about letting us pay more but they get their panties in a bunch when we hold them accountable? Sounds like a double standard. For those that do get docked out of their wages, take the time needed to do your job correctly. If I made multiple small errors it would cost me my license, a patients life and my job, not just a couple bucks. Tye Tye Ann Arbor, MI

]]> By: Anonymous http://retailbandit.com/2006/08/the-missing-law/comment-page-1/#comment-135 Anonymous Fri, 17 Oct 2008 05:10:00 +0000 http://www.retailbandit.com/?p=17#comment-135 "At Super Walmarts the Bounty does come out of our pay. We get less profit sharing according to the stores Bountys...more payout of bounty, less money in our pocket. We carry thousands and thousands of items and there are going to be mistakes with prices, these "professional" bounty hunters are really cheap asses who don't want to work."<br/><br/>Better a cheap ass than a lazy ass. Apparently, Wal-mart doesn't care or they would fix the problem.<br/><br/>As someone who is practically forced to shop at Wal-mart due to a lack of store choices in our area, combined with gas prices -- I can tell you that Wal-mart employees are not the brightest workers on the planet.<br/><br/>Perhaps Wal-mart should hire some decent help that is actually smart enough to do the job properly... Oh, can't do that, it might cut into their profits. Then Sam Walton's family would be forced to live like the rest of America.<br/><br/>Boo hoo! I just wish every state had a bounty law. There would be more professional bounty hunters and then maybe Wal-mart would go out of business. What a blessing that would be for the entire world. “At Super Walmarts the Bounty does come out of our pay. We get less profit sharing according to the stores Bountys…more payout of bounty, less money in our pocket. We carry thousands and thousands of items and there are going to be mistakes with prices, these “professional” bounty hunters are really cheap asses who don’t want to work.”

Better a cheap ass than a lazy ass. Apparently, Wal-mart doesn’t care or they would fix the problem.

As someone who is practically forced to shop at Wal-mart due to a lack of store choices in our area, combined with gas prices — I can tell you that Wal-mart employees are not the brightest workers on the planet.

Perhaps Wal-mart should hire some decent help that is actually smart enough to do the job properly… Oh, can’t do that, it might cut into their profits. Then Sam Walton’s family would be forced to live like the rest of America.

Boo hoo! I just wish every state had a bounty law. There would be more professional bounty hunters and then maybe Wal-mart would go out of business. What a blessing that would be for the entire world.

]]> By: Anonymous http://retailbandit.com/2006/08/the-missing-law/comment-page-1/#comment-134 Anonymous Wed, 15 Oct 2008 11:59:00 +0000 http://www.retailbandit.com/?p=17#comment-134 At Super Walmarts the Bounty does come out of our pay. We get less profit sharing according to the stores Bountys...more payout of bounty, less money in our pocket. We carry thousands and thousands of items and there are going to be mistakes with prices, these "professional" bounty hunters are really cheap asses who don't want to work. At Super Walmarts the Bounty does come out of our pay. We get less profit sharing according to the stores Bountys…more payout of bounty, less money in our pocket. We carry thousands and thousands of items and there are going to be mistakes with prices, these “professional” bounty hunters are really cheap asses who don’t want to work.

]]> By: Chris and Kari B. http://retailbandit.com/2006/08/the-missing-law/comment-page-1/#comment-133 Chris and Kari B. Mon, 06 Oct 2008 04:20:00 +0000 http://www.retailbandit.com/?p=17#comment-133 Does anyone here have any idea what the laws for incorrect scanning of retail items are in the state of Wisconsin? I just moved here from Michigan and was well aware of the Michigan Bounty Law. I have been having problems with the Wal-Mart stores in the Fox Valley area. I do know that the Wal-Mart stores in Michigan try to act as if there is no such thing as a "Michigan bounty law" because they have there own policy for instaces where you are charged incorrectly. I am just wondering if there is a law similar to this in Wisconsin and if not, what the law is in Wisconsin.<br/> <br/><br/><br/> Also we had a problem today at a Wal-Mart in the Appleton area where we were going to buy two items that were marked with a clearance price of $4.00 but were ringing up at $8.00. The original price as marked on the package was $10.00. The store refused to honor the marked price of $4.00 and said they could only honor the $8.00 dollar price. Now I don't think that I am crazy, but, I am pretty darn sure that they were supposed to give it to us for the marked price of $4.00 regardless of how the item was ringing up in the computer. This instance angers me quite a bit, because this is not the first time that something like this has happened to me at Wal-Mart. Does anyone here have any idea what the laws for incorrect scanning of retail items are in the state of Wisconsin? I just moved here from Michigan and was well aware of the Michigan Bounty Law. I have been having problems with the Wal-Mart stores in the Fox Valley area. I do know that the Wal-Mart stores in Michigan try to act as if there is no such thing as a “Michigan bounty law” because they have there own policy for instaces where you are charged incorrectly. I am just wondering if there is a law similar to this in Wisconsin and if not, what the law is in Wisconsin.

Also we had a problem today at a Wal-Mart in the Appleton area where we were going to buy two items that were marked with a clearance price of $4.00 but were ringing up at $8.00. The original price as marked on the package was $10.00. The store refused to honor the marked price of $4.00 and said they could only honor the $8.00 dollar price. Now I don’t think that I am crazy, but, I am pretty darn sure that they were supposed to give it to us for the marked price of $4.00 regardless of how the item was ringing up in the computer. This instance angers me quite a bit, because this is not the first time that something like this has happened to me at Wal-Mart.

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