Lets talk, shall we? new blog
Let’s talk, shall we?
Sobeys (the supermarket closest to me) opens at 7:00 am, wow I googled it cause I needed to colour my hair before I traveled to Cold Lake today. My sister is hosting a baby shower for her youngest and I don’t want to look any older than I am. I’m not vain… hmm okay maybe a little.
Being old is a pain and not just the hair colouring part. It seems I’m finding ‘injustice’ everywhere I go these days. Although I only needed a box of hair colour, that didn’t stop me from perusing the food aisles looking for good deals. They have these on readymade foods about to expire.
Spying a deal too good to be true on many of these items I called on a clerk to verify these. One dollar and sixty cents on a meal priced at thirteen dollars? Really? I take the price tag off the rail to make sure I’m seeing it right. Yep, the sale tag says 1.60. What the heck can this be about I wonder? A blowout of all these meals that are about to expire, I’m thinking.
OR it is priced wrong! I had a run in a month or so ago with this same store on boneless pork loins. The sale tag was misleading as hell and I even got the store manager involved. The sale tag hung over the shelf above the boneless pork loins, so I mistakingly thought the whole boneless pork loins on this shelf were on sale… big mistake.
It took a while to sort that one out and when I left I peeled the sale sticker off that top shelf and put it where it should be. I did this again later in the week while in there and saw they had put it back. Misleading… you bet it was and if I was not watching my pennies (obsolete, but not in the States) I would have paid the price for that, literally.
They have now figured out a new way to confuse us old people … ooops, my outside voice. Sobeys (and probably others as well) are now putting up sale stickers on packaged premade meals. They have been introducing these to fruit and vegetables for a while now. So I asked the clerk if this was right. She says yes, it is on sale.
I’m still in shock so I look closer at the tag and there it is… per 100 grams! the price on the package says thirteen dollars and something. OMG, what the hell is going on here? I don’t have my phone/calculator with me, I was only running to the store to buy hair dye.
I looked all over the package to find the weight which is in kg. By this time another young clerk is beside us and then a store manager wanders by. I complained to the young girls asking them if they thought this was acceptable advertising on these meals. They answered they just work here. I have a feeling they didn’t want to get in trouble with their boss.
I then turned to the boss and asked him how he felt about figuring out milligrams from kg and he pulled out his phone/calculator to do the math.
This is the second time in a month I’ve had a run-in with how this store is pricing goods. This is not my job, I’m supposed to be retired. Pointing out discrepancies and very poor pricing policies to confuse us older gals is not what I enjoy at all. BUT I can’t seem to stop myself, they will eventually ban me from their stores or cringe when they see me coming and that’s too bad.
I don’t want to be an activist or put in time monitoring this store’s pricing practices! Food is pricey enough and do you really need to do this to us, or maybe it is just me? We older folks have already done our time trying to figure out pounds and ounces into milligrams and kilograms.
So check the shelves when there is a sale too good to be true. Just because there is a sale tag hanging over those pork loins doesn’t mean they are on sale, could be for the shelf above. IF the SALE tags look too good to be true, check that it isn’t PER 100 grams.
Take your phone/calculator shopping with you, because you are going to need it. Shame on you SOBEYS and all the rest of you grocery stores! You need to give us some credit, treat us with respect, and quit gaslighting us (whatever that means). We have put in our time and we are confused enough without all this bullshit!
THE END
One more thing, I couldn’t care less how much something costs per 100 grams, I want to know the full price, period! … okay, time to colour my hair and get on the road…
copyright August 16th, 2024