If anyone could appreciate this, it's my POAS addict friends! Sorry for the length....
So I drop my DD off at dance tonight and decide I'm going to run to Target to buy a digital FRER. So after parusing the many options available to me, I choose the cadillac of all FRERs...the FRER Digital GOLD 2 pack (ooooowwwww, ahhhhhhhh). So I'm looking at the label on the shelf and it says it's $8.99. I'm thinking that sounds like a pretty good price (I've never priced these before) so I finish my shopping & head up to the register.
So there is a girl who is probably 16 or 17 ringing me up. I'm watching the screen to make sure everything is scanning correctly and when she rings up the FRER, it scans at a whopping $17.99. I'm like "ummm, excuse me, but I think that's incorrect, the sign said it's $8.99 or $9.99 <I couldn't remember exactly, but I KNOW it wasn't $17.99>. So she calls up a manager. The next thing I know, I see one of my company's VPs walking past me with her daughter (who was just at my house about 40 minutes beforehand. Another story...). The kicker is NO ONE at work knows we're TTC <and I'd like to keep it that way until I'm ready to announce we're PG!> and here the cashier and the manager are swinging around this FRER like it's a flag!! <I'm trying to hold the VPs attention so she doesn't see the chaos that is happening at the register!!> So then VP leaves and the manager has walked away. Dodged a bullet on that one!!
I didn't hear anything of what those two said. So the cashier procedes to tell me that the test is in fact $17.99, and I said "no it's not. I will be happy to take someone over there to show them that there is like 4 rows of these things labeled anything but $17.99". She then tells me "I'm sorry but we're short-handed and no one is available to do a price check. I said "I'm sorry but that's not my problem, can you just do an override, and she says no, she can't. Then I said "I would like to talk to a manager. If they are marked incorrectly, someone needs to be made aware of it" (sidenote, one of my duties as a retail buyer is programming all Promos into the system, so this is a sensitive issue for me)
Meanwhile a line is forming (don't you hate THAT customer, well tonight it was me! But seriously, that's a HUGE discrepancy!). So I told her to call a manager again. She does and the lady comes back...and this time, I left all my stuff there and walked over there with her. She takes one look at the shelf and realizes yep, there are 4 rows of them marked at $8.79!! Cheaper than what I had thought!! So, she tells me, just have the cashier override them for $8.79.
About 20 minutes of my life I will never get back! However, I did get the FRER for $8.79 and I'm a happy camper.
