Online shopping cart errors are common enough, but this one has no logic to it. Here’s a screen shot that reader Victor took. “Tell me if you can understand how a $16 product with free shipping becomes a $42 product when the discounts and tax are added in (in the summary box on the right),” he writes. I don’t know. There is no universe where this cart makes sense, especially the part where Victor “saves” 80%.
Pat was shopping at a real-life Target when he thought he’d pick up some Clif bars that were on sale. They had the reasonable sale price of $10.79 per box. “A couple aisles over I saw on an endcap the same boxes of Clif bars that did not have sale tags and were marked at the regular price of…$9.79?” he writes. He checked the shelf where he found the bars originally, and there was an “original” price tag of $9.79.
Now, it’s possible that the “7/5″ date on the sale shelf tag is the date when that sale ended, and Patrick was shopping later that same week. July 5 was a Sunday, though, and usually that’s the day that sales and promotions begin.
Lisa sent along this picture of body wash bottles, questioning whether it was “on sale.”
Ah, but Target never said that the bottle was on sale. All the shelf tag says is “As advertised.” They advertised their very reasonable regular price. Apparently.
by Laura Northrup via Consumerist
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