do you check your grocery bills?
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Do you check the prices on your grocery bill after you pay or do you assume that everything’s hunky dory? If you don’t, join the club of millions who don’t either.
Well, I wised up after I noticed that I was being overcharged, nothing much, just a few cents here and there. But a few cents do add up at stores which are consistently not up to mark with synchronizing the pricing at the shelf with the pricing at the cash register.
When the clerk swipes our items across the barcode reader, we typically don’t bother looking at the display because we take it for granted that everything’s electronically programmed (as opposed to being manually entered) so it must all be correct.
I read somewhere that grocery chains make millions in excess revenue a year just from overcharging each 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.
I check my bill diligently now before I leave the store. Things are expensive enough as they are without me paying more than I should be. Needlessly!
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