Regardless of dynamic pricing, I have learned to check the price of more expensive items by scanning the barcode with my Wal-Mart app. Very often I have found discrepancies between the shelf price and the scanned price. In general it has gone both ways - scanned price cheaper or more expensive.

Inaccurate pricing is a management problem. All it takes is a dedicated team to go through one section at a time and update shelf prices.

Another management issue is inventory control. I have gone to a store for an item, where online i will be told 25 are in stock, then get to the store, an employee verifies the quantity on a handheld, and then no one can find the item, either on the shelf or "in the back". This is especially an issue with clearance items in my experience.

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Originally posted by gearhounds:
Any item I was buying that rang up for a higher price than displayed would get left at the register.

I would suggest you leave the whole order at the register.
Let the management pay for extra help to return items to the shelves. It will soon be to costly to F around with the price.

It’s the modern version of haggling where the vendor sizes up the buyer except their sizing up is based on personalized data gathered about you.

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Originally posted by gearhounds:

Any item I was buying that rang up for a higher price than displayed would get left at the register.

I don't think that the Publix grocery chain has reached West Virginia yet, it's a big player in the southeastern U.S.

Publix has a policy that if anything rings at a higher price at the register than the shelf tag (or the item, if the package shows a price), you get the item free. There are a few exceptions, such as alcohol, gift cards, etc., but the policy applied to just about all grocery items.

This policy covers both computer errors, and employee errors. Example of the latter, there are several kinds of onion, several kinds of tomato -- if the cashier enters the code for the wrong type and that results in a higher price, the item is free.

I frequently get free items this way, by watching the register dispay or checking the receipt before leaving the store. They never give any grief about this, it is their published policy, and they stick to it.

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Publix has also announced publicly that they are complying with Florida's recent amendment to the Statutes, allowing open carry. Many heads have exploded over this, liberal drama queens announcing that they are boycotting the stores, which is pretty funny, because I have never seen anybody exercise their right to open carry in a Publix store (or anywhere else around here), even though many people clearly carry concealed.