Ambigious Price Advertised - Charged The Higher Price

Lmeeeeeeee on 14/07/2018 - 15:18

Can't afford a house since I buy avocadoes on a fairly regular basis. Nevertheless in the spirit of this website I try to only buy them when on sale or when the large ones go below $2 each.

Saw these at a certain unnamed supermarket and grabbed 5. $1.80 each minus 5% for gift card. Great.
Surprised when I was charged $1.90 each at the express checkout. Went to take a quick snap and realised the price was more ambiguous than I thought. Operator didn't budge on the price and so I decided that my time was worth more than arguing over 47.5 cents.

Now that I look more closely at the picture I see the "$1.8 per ea" on the top right so I feel I'm in the right. Plus I feel I should have been given "First item free and the rest at the lowest price" if it scanned differently to advertised.

What is the correct price here?

Sorry for weird oblique picture but I had to quickly snap this around people.

https://imgur.com/gallery/AUp2zl3

Poll Options

  • 51
    $1.80
  • 2
    $1.90
  • 9
    Stop buying avocadoes and save for a house
Food & Grocery

Comments

  • bobbieb on 14/07/2018 - 15:57
    +4

    Damn… if they're too lazy to correct the price on the board properly, then they can honor the price.

    In actuality, my eyes were first grabbed by the large 1ea on the paper tag. For a sec, I was thinking there was a $1 price on offer too.

    Personally, I would have opted to politely refuse the higher price and leave them all there for the operator to deal with.

    • meeeeeeee on 14/07/2018 - 16:40
      +1

      Was rushing out as I had to get stuff into the fridge, and didn't want to make yet another stop on the grocery run.

      Great idea though.

  • Savas on 14/07/2018 - 16:14

    next time just put them through as potatoes

    • chumlee on 14/07/2018 - 16:15
      +3

      Carrots

      • rambutann on 14/07/2018 - 19:17

        duct tape 15c plastic bag barcodes to them - freeeeeee

  • AlanJ on 14/07/2018 - 17:13
    +6

    The photo was fine, and I think you are absolutely correct. The unaltered printout (top right) proves it beyond doubt. The operator is not to blame, as she gets her info from her terminal, and is probably not authorised to respond to disputes. Send the photo back to Woolworths (oops… the retailer) with the docket, and I am fairly sure the people "higher up" will be glad to acknowledge the store's error and ensure your satisfaction.

    • meeeeeeee on 14/07/2018 - 17:38

      Yep didn't feel inclined to argue too long, I wasn't sure how much authority he had without burning more time calling supervisors etc. The entire line of operators at the express checkouts were already stressed about whether they had to charge other customers for bags!

    • subywagon on 14/07/2018 - 18:51
      +2

      Operator is in the wrong, because the normally call up someone from the department or send someone to go check. Operator was either an ass, or lazy or both.

      Send the pic in as AlanJ suggests, maybe even post on their facebook page.

  • Donaldhump on 14/07/2018 - 18:14
    +3

    Nothing ambiguous about it, they are 1.80

  • endotherm on 14/07/2018 - 19:43
    +1

    The printed price at the top right is presumably the unit pricing, so you would be able to argue you bought one unit at $1.80 (I get upset when I see prices presented this way, it should be written as dollars and cents to two decimal places, not fractions of a dollar…). Otherwise if they want to insist on charging $1.90 I'd demand to purchase 1 unit's worth at $1.80, they can keep 5% of it to sell to someone else. Give them the 5% in skin or stone. Start carving it up at the checkout so they have to go through with the sale or take a complete loss on an unsaleable product.

  • MrFrugalSpend on 15/07/2018 - 15:13

    They were $1.80 in my local woolies this morning

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