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Originally Posted by ken0042
I think you are completely missing the point. The number of pricing errors today is considerably lower than 10 years ago. Why? Because prior to that code of practice, there was no incentive for a store to make sure the prices were right. If somebody called them on it they would save the 10% of the price or whatever. So even if I saw something come up as the wrong price, I wouldn't call the store on it because it wasn't worth the hassle of a price check for me to save 40¢ on a $4 item.
Now stores have to be extra careful so they aren't giving away free stuff all the time. It wouldn't surprise me to see that the stock people have incentives in place to make sure the prices are correct.
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Even with the code of pratice price errors are still happening a lot. Imagine one or two people sitting behind a computer feeding in all the price changes into a computer every week. That was a weekly occurance at Safeway. With all the changes things still get missed. Sometimes head office doesn't give those people all the price changes needed to be done. Other times it's too many price changes and staff rushed for time to get it all done.