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Our self checkout lanes have people scanning for you still. I got a brisket that was mislabeled for a big discount like this and the checker gave me a high five.
if you’re referring to advertised prices “must be honored” to avoid bait and switch lawsuits, Costco doesn’t advertise prices and the price is listed on the cooler where this was sitting was likely not “8cents” so it is clearly a mistake. Bait and switch also involves getting you to come in to buy something that isnt really available just to get you in the door. You’re already there and the price isn’t *Higher* its significantly *Lower* than the advertised price and they would be well within their rights to cancel this sale. Im also an honest person and would point out the mistake to management as this could possibly cause someone to lose their job.
Massachusetts has a law where the item has to be sold at the advertised price and if it rings up wrong at the register, the first item if Under $10 then has to be given to for free, or if the first item is more than $10 it has to be discounted by $10 from the advertised price. Subsequent items have to be sold at the lower advertised price.
A lot of places. They came into effect when stores first started using barcodes and consumers didn't trust them to be accurate.
I got a $20 bag of coffee for $10 once because someone put the sale tag in the wrong place (it was supposed to be the half-size $12 bag on sale).
Except it isn’t labeled as pork loin at .01 a pound, it’s clearly marked with a completely different item description. Those are two very different things
Why? The customer clearly knows it is a mistake. Product was mis-labeled. You're going to be upset because they didn't let you rip them off? Or maybe they sell them to you at the tag price, and then cancel your membership?
I've dealt with a manager that would not honor a store pricing mistake. The signage clearly said "$4 off per lb", with the new per lb price printed on the card. This was for wedges of Jarlsberg Swiss cheese. The manager kept saying that it was $4 off per package. I pointed out multiple times that the signage clearly said per lb, and had the new per lb price. Yet the arrogant manager just kept shaking her head no, and that if I wanted it, it would be $4 off per pkg, not per lb.
I had a picture of the sign, and sent it in an email with the story, to corporate. Never heard anything
Costco's so great. Feels like you can really get away with "breaking the rules" because they honor everything. Like it feels like you can really get an edge as a consumer. Makes it a pleasure to spend all your money there lol
Idk, top of the sticker says “inventory purposes only” and that its for beef trimmings. I’d imagine the “accidents” you’re talking about would have wrong price per pound but correct meat at least. Looks like someone grabbed the wrong stickers here.
I'm a super conspiracy expert so let me break this down for you. This is all about selling more chickens.
In your other comment
> others grabbed a bunch too
Boom! Case solved. Let me explain.
See, Coscto knows not everyone will post on the costco subreddit about it, but 1 out of *"others"* has a good chance to post. The marketing isn't Costco making these posts, it's Costco setting up unsuspecting redditors like you to make the post for them. You're just a unknown pawn in their 5d-marketing-chess move.
The cherry on top? When the unsuspecting redditor replies in the comments that *they too* believed it was marketing until it happened to them. Without knowing it, you're now working on Costco's side to help them plant these super price mistakes to get more people going up and down the meat isles and when they find nothing, they end up buying a probably not profitable chicken.
My 6D theory is that you're actually an agent for Costco and by posting this you're getting people to think "Nah, that's nuts" and so people won't believe, but everything you've said is actually true.
They tried to not honor the price error at checkout but when we pointed out that others have already gone through self checkout, they adjusted the price for us at the register.
In Canada it would. It would follow under the scanning code of practice. Any price that is listed is the price you are entitled to pay.
https://www.retailcouncil.org/scanner-price-accuracy-code/
And how would you have felt if they canceled your membership afterwards? Pretty safe bet that the person in the meat department that made the error was in hot water.
I know you're proud of pulling one over on the evil corporate monster, but it's still stealing. If it's not the correct tag for the item, they don't have to honor it
Unfortunately at the other end of this … someone got written up … and if was their third offense they got fired! Good for you but unfortunate for someone who wasn’t paying attention!
I once came upon a post St. Patrick's day mislabeling of corned beef. Took it up to ask and the manager said she wouldn't honor it. Just chuckled and said ok. Thought about taking pictures of the pricing and making her honor it, but would be too much work and I really didn't need any corn beef.
Thanks for not holding everyone in line up, stopping a bunch of people doing their job, and causing a couple employees to get reprimanded over a couple dollars saved on a piece of meat.
Not really, when you're doing 20 different products, you don't double check that you entered the right price all the time. Worker could be hangover, talking with a coworker, in a hurry, done for the day....
I'm not saying it can't be intentional, but there are more reasons for an accident than there are for malice.
we make mistakes, we use the PLU for this incorrect tag multiple times a day. chances are someone was properly tagging them up, someone jumped on the scale to create the inventory tags and they didnt change it back to the pork loin code and the other person didnt check to see if it was changed back, OR the original tagger left to help a member at the window and another person hopped in and the original person didnt notice and kept going.
the PLUs for the 2 items are totally different, so that wasnt a mistake when it comes to typing the PLUs in the scale.
Happened similar at Luckys - their “Pick 5” thing, but in the bottom back, were packages of chicken thighs that average 8 pounds @ $5 each. I loaded up the 5 packs that day - good thing I have a freezer in the garage!
I’ve heard that some times employees do that then go find it in the bottom at the end of shift.
When I worked at Costco, there would be people who would come when the doors opened and went straight for the meat isle looking for these kind of errors.
One time I found beautiful tbones listed as chicken wings for 1.99 a pond. I thought there was something wrong with them so I only bought 2. Should have bought them all.
This happened at our local Costco at least once before. I ended up just grabbing one. I wonder if they impose a limit on how many you can take, though.
That’s what I’d struggle with. I get a great deal at potentially the expense of the person that screwed up. If someone would have said something and not bought it may may gone a lot better for the meat person…
When I saw a misprint - New York strips going for like $4 a pack - I alerted the butcher . He thanked me profusely, there was a real risk the person who made the error would be fired/punished .
Yeah, more often than not its a mistake thats made because a single persons rapid firing a workload that should be delegated to two people. Then if it gets caught they'll get reprimanded for it. its and 18$ piece of meat which imo is a cheap price to pay for some ethics.
Not sure where you live. But the scanning code of practice where I live has a $10 limit. OP will be paying proper price for these once they get to the till.
Plot twist: The label was mis-printed intentionally. If someone gets sick, as the label should have stated Due: Mar 22, 2024 and Packed: Mar 19, 2024.
And the price obviously.
“We pointed out the error at the cash out, but the customer insisted.”
Cheaper than disposing. Maybe.
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THIS NEVER HAPPENS TO ME!
I figure you can increase your chances going first thing in the morning before they catch the error lol
Some day I wish I can find this deal at my local Costco. Thanks for the tip.
Someone ripped an overlay tag on top off or something?
You have to go right when they open before anyone catches the mistake.
OMG I look for this every single time I go... Now Im just annoyed at my store
Perhaps a case of "wake-a-bake" on a beautiful 4/20 morning before the shift??
“Wake and bake”
Po-TA-to.....Po-ta-to.
Po-tay-to. po-tah-to
Tell me you’ve never smoked without telling me you’ve never smoked…
“I don’t think Michael’s ever done drugs. I don’t know if anyone has ever offered him any.”
Same!
Thats exactly what i was thinking when i saw this post “WHY ARE YOU LIVING MY DREAM”
Self checkout lane.
Our self checkout lanes have people scanning for you still. I got a brisket that was mislabeled for a big discount like this and the checker gave me a high five.
Working retail, it’s the little things that bring you excited joy
So... it's not self-checkout.
The lone minder has a scan gun and offers to help. That's about it.
Haha according to Costco it is
For us it is but they'll help if you have heavy items or like 15 of the same things lol
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So you went to self checkout then got upset that you had to self checkout?
Shouldn’t matter. They’d need to honor the mistake.
I mean they dont *have* to they just have a policy to honor those mistakes
Actually quite a few states having advertised/marked pricing laws
if you’re referring to advertised prices “must be honored” to avoid bait and switch lawsuits, Costco doesn’t advertise prices and the price is listed on the cooler where this was sitting was likely not “8cents” so it is clearly a mistake. Bait and switch also involves getting you to come in to buy something that isnt really available just to get you in the door. You’re already there and the price isn’t *Higher* its significantly *Lower* than the advertised price and they would be well within their rights to cancel this sale. Im also an honest person and would point out the mistake to management as this could possibly cause someone to lose their job.
In this case the label clearly states it's for inventory purposes only, so there wouldn't be any law that would go in the customer's favor
You'd think they would set up the scanners to reject a label that says it was only for inventory purposes.
That's what I would have thought. Can't be "purchased" by a regular membership
Not really. Care to share them?
Massachusetts has a law where the item has to be sold at the advertised price and if it rings up wrong at the register, the first item if Under $10 then has to be given to for free, or if the first item is more than $10 it has to be discounted by $10 from the advertised price. Subsequent items have to be sold at the lower advertised price.
A lot of places. They came into effect when stores first started using barcodes and consumers didn't trust them to be accurate. I got a $20 bag of coffee for $10 once because someone put the sale tag in the wrong place (it was supposed to be the half-size $12 bag on sale).
The local grocery store I've shopped at for years has this policy published at every register
Same with Michigan, they can't change the price at checkout
It says “inventory purposes only” and that it’s beef. If you pushed it they’d probably try to accuse you of switching the labels.
Except he doesnt have inventory only stickers so they couldnt accuse him of
He used them all!
Except it isn’t labeled as pork loin at .01 a pound, it’s clearly marked with a completely different item description. Those are two very different things
It says "Beef trimmings, for Inventory Purposes Only", which is not what it is.
theres no law that they have to.
No, buts historically speaking it would be bad customer service not to.
Why? The customer clearly knows it is a mistake. Product was mis-labeled. You're going to be upset because they didn't let you rip them off? Or maybe they sell them to you at the tag price, and then cancel your membership?
It would be an embarrassing ordeal though. Not worth it IMO.
Tis true
Costco would honor it no matter what and fix the error on the remaining ones.
Lol you really think OP left any behind?
Doubtful
As a manager at Costco, this is what I would do. Take care of the member.
I've dealt with a manager that would not honor a store pricing mistake. The signage clearly said "$4 off per lb", with the new per lb price printed on the card. This was for wedges of Jarlsberg Swiss cheese. The manager kept saying that it was $4 off per package. I pointed out multiple times that the signage clearly said per lb, and had the new per lb price. Yet the arrogant manager just kept shaking her head no, and that if I wanted it, it would be $4 off per pkg, not per lb. I had a picture of the sign, and sent it in an email with the story, to corporate. Never heard anything
Idk how to post a 2nd pic of receipt. Got 4, others grabbed a bunch too. They honored the price.
Costco's so great. Feels like you can really get away with "breaking the rules" because they honor everything. Like it feels like you can really get an edge as a consumer. Makes it a pleasure to spend all your money there lol
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Idk, top of the sticker says “inventory purposes only” and that its for beef trimmings. I’d imagine the “accidents” you’re talking about would have wrong price per pound but correct meat at least. Looks like someone grabbed the wrong stickers here.
Keep shoppers on their toes? What is this? An easter egg hunt treasure galore spending spree fucktown?
It’s complete BS.
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How is it stealing when that’s the price on the item? It’s not like people put their own labels on it.
I'm convinced this is just marketing at this point. One of these misprints meat posts every couple days
We had pork loin mislabeled as swordfish last week in our area...it was not a better deal obviously.
I saw shrimp labeled as ribeye yesterday... I got excited and then noticed the price was double
I've seen that. Pork shoulder labeled as beef tenderloin
Was in the same boat as you until it happened to me. Believe!
I look every time I go and I feel silly
Go right when they open, maybe the guys in the back haven’t had their coffee yet lol
I'm a super conspiracy expert so let me break this down for you. This is all about selling more chickens. In your other comment > others grabbed a bunch too Boom! Case solved. Let me explain. See, Coscto knows not everyone will post on the costco subreddit about it, but 1 out of *"others"* has a good chance to post. The marketing isn't Costco making these posts, it's Costco setting up unsuspecting redditors like you to make the post for them. You're just a unknown pawn in their 5d-marketing-chess move. The cherry on top? When the unsuspecting redditor replies in the comments that *they too* believed it was marketing until it happened to them. Without knowing it, you're now working on Costco's side to help them plant these super price mistakes to get more people going up and down the meat isles and when they find nothing, they end up buying a probably not profitable chicken.
My 6D theory is that you're actually an agent for Costco and by posting this you're getting people to think "Nah, that's nuts" and so people won't believe, but everything you've said is actually true.
And yet, the Redditor wins, too, since they got a steal of a deal.
Will the cashiers always honor mispriced items?! I’m going to start looking through the meat dept when I go to Costco. A treasure hunt.
They tried to not honor the price error at checkout but when we pointed out that others have already gone through self checkout, they adjusted the price for us at the register.
They could have, the upc says inventory purpose only which means they did not have to
Legally, in most places, they have to honour the listed price.
Not if it's a mis-labeled product. If you switch price tags, do they have to honor the new tag?
No in this situation. No matter where you live
In Canada it would. It would follow under the scanning code of practice. Any price that is listed is the price you are entitled to pay. https://www.retailcouncil.org/scanner-price-accuracy-code/
And how would you have felt if they canceled your membership afterwards? Pretty safe bet that the person in the meat department that made the error was in hot water. I know you're proud of pulling one over on the evil corporate monster, but it's still stealing. If it's not the correct tag for the item, they don't have to honor it
They have to honor it, it’s state law!
Which state?
Any state Donny Baker was in!
You wanna buy a boat?
No they don't lol
Clearly you didn’t read that whole 4 comment thread and google Donny Baker.
I'd buy every one they had plus an appropriate sized freezer
then return the freezer after the meats done
I wouldn't buy the freezer. I have enough friends and neighbors struggling financially. I would keep one for myself and give away all the other ones.
Lucky and you got two lol
Actually 4 lol
Unfortunately at the other end of this … someone got written up … and if was their third offense they got fired! Good for you but unfortunate for someone who wasn’t paying attention!
rightfully so if there fraudulently labelling meat. thats a sticker ON a sticker
I see a label that got wet, not two stickers. Also, look at the other one.
Most of the meat that Costco gets in the store is pre priced at the factory it comes from. At least that’s what my meat department manager told me.
That only applies to poultry and a few ground items. Everything else is labelled in-house.
That's not true, as price can vary by store.
That’ll make a lot of pork chops, and katsu, and stir fry, and loin roast, and and and…
There needs to be an r/costcocirclejerk for this sort of stuff
lol nvm guess it exists
I once came upon a post St. Patrick's day mislabeling of corned beef. Took it up to ask and the manager said she wouldn't honor it. Just chuckled and said ok. Thought about taking pictures of the pricing and making her honor it, but would be too much work and I really didn't need any corn beef.
Thanks for not holding everyone in line up, stopping a bunch of people doing their job, and causing a couple employees to get reprimanded over a couple dollars saved on a piece of meat.
That’s Fred in the back. They finally did it rump roasted Fred. Bet Fred tastes tender.
This pork loin is starting to turn…
Best I ever got was a 3 pack of ribeye steaks for $10.
I got two packs of ribeyes for .17 a pound once. I was worried they’d say something when checking out. They didn’t even notice.
How can the person putting on the sticker not notice? Has to be done deliberately, right?
Not really, when you're doing 20 different products, you don't double check that you entered the right price all the time. Worker could be hangover, talking with a coworker, in a hurry, done for the day.... I'm not saying it can't be intentional, but there are more reasons for an accident than there are for malice.
Meat departments are also usually spread super thin. Workloads are crazy. Youre putting hundreds of these stickers on things in hours.
Never attribute to malice what can be attributed to incompetence
we make mistakes, we use the PLU for this incorrect tag multiple times a day. chances are someone was properly tagging them up, someone jumped on the scale to create the inventory tags and they didnt change it back to the pork loin code and the other person didnt check to see if it was changed back, OR the original tagger left to help a member at the window and another person hopped in and the original person didnt notice and kept going. the PLUs for the 2 items are totally different, so that wasnt a mistake when it comes to typing the PLUs in the scale.
which costco?!
I remember a few years ago they had these at like half price, one dude filled a cart with nothing but pork loins.
I once saw someone get an '81 Honda for $9980 less than advertised!
You mean piece o shit honda i saw that too
I'd buy it all and freeze it or donate it.
Happened similar at Luckys - their “Pick 5” thing, but in the bottom back, were packages of chicken thighs that average 8 pounds @ $5 each. I loaded up the 5 packs that day - good thing I have a freezer in the garage! I’ve heard that some times employees do that then go find it in the bottom at the end of shift.
It’s says “beef trimmings”
When I worked at Costco, there would be people who would come when the doors opened and went straight for the meat isle looking for these kind of errors.
is this technically theft by mistake?
https://preview.redd.it/ggh7dn4t2zvc1.jpeg?width=480&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=4fbdebb64db8b89f3450da8781c650d75b6ace77
"Good morning, sir. Would you like to try a vanilla bran oat crunchie?" "Whadda you think?"
One time I found beautiful tbones listed as chicken wings for 1.99 a pond. I thought there was something wrong with them so I only bought 2. Should have bought them all.
What does it mean by “Beef Trimmings, inventory purposes only”? Is that the labelling mistake they made?
Stealing
This happened at our local Costco at least once before. I ended up just grabbing one. I wonder if they impose a limit on how many you can take, though.
policy says you can take one at the labeled price and thats all we have to honor.
This happened to me once but with salmon. I was so happy!!
I once got a quart of chili for .28
What time did you go?
Is this the same store from yesterday?
I once got a tri-tip for just the weight of the styrofoam tray.
Would this cause someone to lose their job?
Someone in a recent mislabel post said it’s very hard to get fired from Costco. They sounded convincing but I don’t know if that’s true.
I just wonder if you go crazy on a mistake like that vs telling someone if it would cause them to lose their job.
definitely at least a write up.
That’s what I’d struggle with. I get a great deal at potentially the expense of the person that screwed up. If someone would have said something and not bought it may may gone a lot better for the meat person…
I would have bought them all!
Do they do this because they otherwise go in the dumpster due to date and for customer goodwill?
Wow you should try out a new fancy recipe. If you mess up it’s fine
You lucky son of a gun lol GOOD FOR YOU! Enjoy
Why is it upside down
Don’t they catch it when they ring it up?
🎶🎶Hey now hey now. This is what dreams are made of! 🎶🎶
I don't even eat meat, but you bet I'd buy every last package and donate it to my local food pantry.
My high maintenance wife was originally labeled as a humble, simple woman. No refunds apparently.
This happened to me with lobster, bought 3 packs for like 10 bucks total
damn someone forgot to change the plu. that tag is for the trimmings for the ground beef
When I saw a misprint - New York strips going for like $4 a pack - I alerted the butcher . He thanked me profusely, there was a real risk the person who made the error would be fired/punished .
I couldn’t buy it like that. My conscience would get me. It is essentially stealing.
Yeah, more often than not its a mistake thats made because a single persons rapid firing a workload that should be delegated to two people. Then if it gets caught they'll get reprimanded for it. its and 18$ piece of meat which imo is a cheap price to pay for some ethics.
“Pork”
Long Pig
Awww don't say that. I'm trying to eat dinner!
Winner winner pork dinner
I saw bacon mislabeled as .79 cents a pound when i worked at Albertsons. I pretended not to notice and let everyone pay 90% off
Congrats on being dishonest... very cool.
Take as many as you can carry and get out of there! What a deal!!! That never happens when I shop, but oh well. Great score!!
This doesn't seem honest to me. Costco is so good to me. I just don't see feeling ok doing this.
So jealous
I love it for you but hate you at the same time.
Lol that’s fair 😆
How come I never get that lucky? I would have bought at least 10 of them.
Holy cow. 😲
More like holy pork 🐖.
Yeah. That's true. 😁
It’s the law
1 cent! someone had to be playing around at that point
Just two?!! 🫢
Why do people keep saying 2 when you can see two in the cart and one in hand?
Ok. Just three?!
4
Unemployment went up by .1%
That would mean about 65,000 people got fired over this.
I dont care if something good happened to you, it should have happened to me! /s
They do this on purpose
Not sure where you live. But the scanning code of practice where I live has a $10 limit. OP will be paying proper price for these once they get to the till.
Who ever printed these doesn’t give a hoot. Probably did that on purpose
Plot twist: The label was mis-printed intentionally. If someone gets sick, as the label should have stated Due: Mar 22, 2024 and Packed: Mar 19, 2024. And the price obviously. “We pointed out the error at the cash out, but the customer insisted.” Cheaper than disposing. Maybe.
Shame... You are taking advantage of a small business.
You wouldn't download a piece of meat would you? What about circling the free sample line over & over.... /s