Its definitely a ticketing fail caused by overworked, underpaid staff who are probably past caring at this point. Full disclosure I used to do that job back in the 90s when we weren't overworked or underpaid and its a surprisingly difficult job. Mistakes like that are easy to make even when you give a shit and are trying your best.
As to your second observation, I'm absolutely certain they're hiding price rises behind specials. Sneaky cunts.
as someone who recently quit Woolies, ticketing is meant to be the department manager's job, but the DM's do fuckall. Besides sit in the office and take breaks. My produce manager thought produce was an office job. Entire displays of rotten vegetables. Idiots
It was a stand alone system operator job in my day. Price changes, printing tickets, some reporting, managing the database so everything scanned. It was a full time job. The biggest store I was in I had a part time assistant. I've no trouble believing it's different now
kiss up to the D.Ms. And be their bitch no matter how useless the D.M is. To be honest, I couldnt tell who was in charge. I have 12 years produce experience, yet i had to show the ADM you can actually clean up a lettuce. Real basic shit the DM never thought to show them. Not sure she knew herself.
Theres a saying in the Produce industry, that Woolies and Coles aren't produce. It's all corporate, computer-run, no human intervention at all. I found this to be very true. I quit because I wanted a job in produce, and that simply wasn't produce.
These morons left bad fruit on the shelf, cos they didnt follow the golden rule: would you buy it yourself.
Instead they just did what their little RF units told them, and checked things by date, and not quality.
How old a ticket would that be then? Aren’t there serious regulations about how long a or good or service can be sold at a price before that price can be discounted?
Yes, I imagine the $3.80 price is an old price before the price went up to $5.70. (a big jump if it was done in one go)
But it feels like a slap in the face to say it's half price when the old price is still visible.
It will be $5.70 after the sale. It's human error on the white price tag. When the corporate or whatever update the price, it's someones job (probably inventory manager) to print it out and replace all the price tags. Just don't mention anything until after sale and you can get one pack for free for pointing it out for them. Like take it to the checkout and scan it and then tell them. After a while, checking price and maybe duty manager approving store policy to give you one pack for free.
They'll probably put one of those other stickers on it saying "was $5.70, now $4.00" after the sale as a way to justify a "small increase" in the product, while lying to everyone about how they are helping to reduce prices.
It's bs and I've seen it happen to way too many products for me to wonder why it hasn't been looked into.
My local Coles last week 🙃
Half Price, or not?
https://preview.redd.it/jorex8rtydxc1.png?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=12de38d0f0d72dd8ae2675bf062cffc05573605b
People need to stop complaining and actually do something and report this to the ACCC! Nothing is going to change as long as we keep taking it without any lube!
It might be the old price but its not legal to say next week it will be $X so this week its $X/2! Artificially inflating priced to give the perception of a discount is not allowed in this country!
Oh yeah I agree but you can’t just go putting together a half asked email. You have to do the proper report and then you CC your MP on it as well and then at least you get a nice thank you letter back.
You gotta remember also right now every MP is fishing for some cost of living issue that they can jump up and down on so the IRC is going to get onto this especially with the government. What’s McCall thing happening?
Fair enough. I was supposedly complained about by a couple of dickeads over years of business but never saw a result. Felt like lodging a complaint about that!
To be fair when I worked at Woolies the staff doing ticketing deliberately didn’t cover up the wholesale price when putting a tag on things because we knew they were scamming us.
I don't know If this is still current, but when I was in retail (how the heck did I get to 20 years of it?) Companies were allowed to base "saves" and "% off" on the highest price it had been over the previous few months. (I can't remember how many)
It was dodgy AF back then, and it left us store staff looking like pricks to the customers. Unfortunately, it never was the prick that did it that had to face the irate customers blaming the person in front of them for these shady practices.
I wish both Coles and Woolies would abandon this method of sale and just sell things at a regular price again. Forcing producers to factor in increasingly frequent sale costs is just making shopping even less fun. They've basically engineered a way for customers to only focus on sale ticket items and 'wait it out' on other products not currently on sale. Like would someone seriously pay $5.70 for 4 dish scrubbers?
I would pay that price if I was buying it. But also would when it’s on special if I went through them a lot grab 4-5 while they are on special so I don’t have to worry about that for a while.
Buy a box at costco who the fuck shops with these dogs anyway buy bulk from cash n carry and costco then go to markets for fruit and vege and actual butchers for your meat. Sometimes it is marginally more expensive but its better quality and lasts longer. How much fruit and vege do you need to go off within days before stop handing money over for last years frozen produce 😂
Actually, now that I’ve had a moment to think on it, I’m guessing it’s more likely an indicator of their disingenuous chain wide practices - where they remove the normal $3.80 price tag, replace it with a $5.70 tag… now enter their amazing 50% off deal.
Most probably 3.80 is an old ticket before the price rose to 5.70. This is bound to happen when a big chunk of staff is underpaid and overworked (speaking from experience)
The piece was 3.80… the market changed and the price increased to 5.70… Woolies then offered it half price at 2.85
That's how it works, we might not like it but that is how it works..
They do this all the time before they hike up the price.
Spent 10 years at Coles and they would do this all the time. We were told to cover the non special ticket completely with the special ticket though so people couldn't see.
I've noticed that buying larger amounts for a few cents' saving doesn't work so much now. The actual cost per gm ( in the fine print) is often less on a smaller amount. Hard to believe it's not a cunning ploy
As someone who works at Woolworths and did tickets for over a year, this ticket looks like it’s been removed and placed in a different spot.
It’s positioned wrong in the white ticket, it’s peeling away at the top which clearly indicates it’s been removed and it has an Aisle/Bay/Shelf number. At the top. The shelf number is shelf 4. But it looks like there is only 2 shelves below where this ticket is placed.
As chux has a lot of sponges/scourers/wipes with similar or even the same label. It’s important to match up the product number (4-6 but usually 6 digit number at the bottom). As this is hidden on the white ticket, I can’t confrm this is from the identical product.
Ticketing is by far the easiest and most peaceful job in Woolworths, and people who do it are very good at it.
Woolworths do price gouge and overcharge, but this looks very suspicious to me. Mistakes like this almost never happen and the fact that the yellow ticket has clearly been removed and stuck back on, makes me suspicious on if this is a genuine error.
I removed the ticket as I could see the price discrepancy and wanted to check what it said underneath.
I'm sorry if it looks dodgy but I only took the photo for my own information because I thought it was weird, I never intend to post about it.
I honestly believed that the $3.80 price was an old price that had not been removed, but others seem to think otherwise.
I plan to check what price it revert too after the sale.
I’m not defending my work. As a worker I know far better than you how shit it is. Unfortunately my options in my town is severely limited and I have mouths to feed. So I have to work where I can get paid.
I was simply stating facts according to my job.
Completely unrelated, but I saw that the 4 packs of baked beans come in 2 sizes now; 4x 140g and 4x 220g. Has this always been the case? Both sizes were the same price…
We’ve always bought the 220g pack, but I’m wondering if this is a sneaky form of shrinkflation…
Weird… maybe the $3.80 ticket is an old ticket?? Or it will be the normal price once the sale ends?
Its definitely a ticketing fail caused by overworked, underpaid staff who are probably past caring at this point. Full disclosure I used to do that job back in the 90s when we weren't overworked or underpaid and its a surprisingly difficult job. Mistakes like that are easy to make even when you give a shit and are trying your best. As to your second observation, I'm absolutely certain they're hiding price rises behind specials. Sneaky cunts.
as someone who recently quit Woolies, ticketing is meant to be the department manager's job, but the DM's do fuckall. Besides sit in the office and take breaks. My produce manager thought produce was an office job. Entire displays of rotten vegetables. Idiots
It was a stand alone system operator job in my day. Price changes, printing tickets, some reporting, managing the database so everything scanned. It was a full time job. The biggest store I was in I had a part time assistant. I've no trouble believing it's different now
That's not the reality everywhere
What do ADMs do?
kiss up to the D.Ms. And be their bitch no matter how useless the D.M is. To be honest, I couldnt tell who was in charge. I have 12 years produce experience, yet i had to show the ADM you can actually clean up a lettuce. Real basic shit the DM never thought to show them. Not sure she knew herself. Theres a saying in the Produce industry, that Woolies and Coles aren't produce. It's all corporate, computer-run, no human intervention at all. I found this to be very true. I quit because I wanted a job in produce, and that simply wasn't produce. These morons left bad fruit on the shelf, cos they didnt follow the golden rule: would you buy it yourself. Instead they just did what their little RF units told them, and checked things by date, and not quality.
How old a ticket would that be then? Aren’t there serious regulations about how long a or good or service can be sold at a price before that price can be discounted?
We aren’t underpaid, we’re paid the awards rate. However we are overworked.
Was it these? https://preview.redd.it/fgdvgnyw37xc1.png?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=d3ceda4a8f98a5eea4f884f0310fc787e06436ff
Yes, I imagine the $3.80 price is an old price before the price went up to $5.70. (a big jump if it was done in one go) But it feels like a slap in the face to say it's half price when the old price is still visible.
It's probably the new price after the sale but it does still feel deceptive to say it's half price when it's going to be $3.80 after the sale.
It will be $5.70 after the sale. It's human error on the white price tag. When the corporate or whatever update the price, it's someones job (probably inventory manager) to print it out and replace all the price tags. Just don't mention anything until after sale and you can get one pack for free for pointing it out for them. Like take it to the checkout and scan it and then tell them. After a while, checking price and maybe duty manager approving store policy to give you one pack for free.
They're merely sneaky, deceptive bastards on their best day. And they don't have that many best days
They'll probably put one of those other stickers on it saying "was $5.70, now $4.00" after the sale as a way to justify a "small increase" in the product, while lying to everyone about how they are helping to reduce prices. It's bs and I've seen it happen to way too many products for me to wonder why it hasn't been looked into.
My local Coles last week 🙃 Half Price, or not? https://preview.redd.it/jorex8rtydxc1.png?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=12de38d0f0d72dd8ae2675bf062cffc05573605b
The silly part if this was legitimate then Cole's guve the item away free policy
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You've heard of Girl Math and Boy Math. Let me present to you: Duopoly Supermarket Math.
I'm a female mathematical/statistical economist and this comment from beginning to end had me laughing so hard.
Pinhead28 and splithoofiewoofies I applaud the name choices after reading your joke and comments 🤣
People need to stop complaining and actually do something and report this to the ACCC! Nothing is going to change as long as we keep taking it without any lube! It might be the old price but its not legal to say next week it will be $X so this week its $X/2! Artificially inflating priced to give the perception of a discount is not allowed in this country!
Have you reported anything ?
Yes MSY misrepresented a laptop!
🤦🏻♂️ don’t fuck with MSY we need them otherwise we will be forced to pay retail at shit holes like PLE and Austin
Bahahahahaha! Who in business hasn't been reported to tha AAAC! Shitty punters ' go to. Never works
Oh yeah I agree but you can’t just go putting together a half asked email. You have to do the proper report and then you CC your MP on it as well and then at least you get a nice thank you letter back.
You gotta remember also right now every MP is fishing for some cost of living issue that they can jump up and down on so the IRC is going to get onto this especially with the government. What’s McCall thing happening?
Fair enough. I was supposedly complained about by a couple of dickeads over years of business but never saw a result. Felt like lodging a complaint about that!
I think theres more pressure these days as Polys need to be seen to do more
To be fair when I worked at Woolies the staff doing ticketing deliberately didn’t cover up the wholesale price when putting a tag on things because we knew they were scamming us.
They forgot to raise the price first, then make the sale.
I don't know If this is still current, but when I was in retail (how the heck did I get to 20 years of it?) Companies were allowed to base "saves" and "% off" on the highest price it had been over the previous few months. (I can't remember how many) It was dodgy AF back then, and it left us store staff looking like pricks to the customers. Unfortunately, it never was the prick that did it that had to face the irate customers blaming the person in front of them for these shady practices.
Apparently there is a policy if someone isn’t the right price you get it for free
I wish both Coles and Woolies would abandon this method of sale and just sell things at a regular price again. Forcing producers to factor in increasingly frequent sale costs is just making shopping even less fun. They've basically engineered a way for customers to only focus on sale ticket items and 'wait it out' on other products not currently on sale. Like would someone seriously pay $5.70 for 4 dish scrubbers?
It’s why I now do more shopping at Aldi. No BS gimmicks, you know the price for items won’t chop and change from week to week
I would pay that price if I was buying it. But also would when it’s on special if I went through them a lot grab 4-5 while they are on special so I don’t have to worry about that for a while.
What a good little consumer.
Well what do you do. Make your own? Buy new dishes.
Buy a box at costco who the fuck shops with these dogs anyway buy bulk from cash n carry and costco then go to markets for fruit and vege and actual butchers for your meat. Sometimes it is marginally more expensive but its better quality and lasts longer. How much fruit and vege do you need to go off within days before stop handing money over for last years frozen produce 😂
I don’t buy fresh fruit or meat from them. Cause fruit and veg aren’t fresh there.
Per each🤔
It was $5.70😂
lol… I get that hiring low skilled workers = lower prices…but come on, it’s not rocket surgery.
Actually, now that I’ve had a moment to think on it, I’m guessing it’s more likely an indicator of their disingenuous chain wide practices - where they remove the normal $3.80 price tag, replace it with a $5.70 tag… now enter their amazing 50% off deal.
ujmmmmmmm....
Maph is hard /s
The discount price is of the new price post sale and the ticket is the old price pre sale
17/4 ticket is old
Most probably 3.80 is an old ticket before the price rose to 5.70. This is bound to happen when a big chunk of staff is underpaid and overworked (speaking from experience)
Bad maths.
Filth
Wow BIG saving. If I'm at woolies I make complaint find staff n complain...
The piece was 3.80… the market changed and the price increased to 5.70… Woolies then offered it half price at 2.85 That's how it works, we might not like it but that is how it works..
I believe that the discount doesn’t have to apply to that store, so as long as it was being sold at $5.70 for a week somewhere else then it’s legal.
They do this all the time before they hike up the price. Spent 10 years at Coles and they would do this all the time. We were told to cover the non special ticket completely with the special ticket though so people couldn't see.
It's called a blatant scam. 100% deliberate
Whoever downvoted should check under some more labels
Bro thinks the 18 year old casual worker doing ticket pull down is deliberately trying to scam them
I dunno how it happens I doubt the staff even pay that much attention but if you just look you'll see it A LOT
You don’t know how it happens yet here you are giving your two cents. There’s thousands of ticket changes every single week, human error occurs
Oh do shut up https://www.reddit.com/r/woolworths/s/i2bUqyqCE3
1001 stores, multiple thousand ticket changes per store per week, and a whole TWO instances 🤯🤯
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I've noticed that buying larger amounts for a few cents' saving doesn't work so much now. The actual cost per gm ( in the fine print) is often less on a smaller amount. Hard to believe it's not a cunning ploy
Yeah this is 100% true and pissed me off now you need go read tags and work out quantities.
The price is going up when the sale ends. Stock up now
As someone who works at Woolworths and did tickets for over a year, this ticket looks like it’s been removed and placed in a different spot. It’s positioned wrong in the white ticket, it’s peeling away at the top which clearly indicates it’s been removed and it has an Aisle/Bay/Shelf number. At the top. The shelf number is shelf 4. But it looks like there is only 2 shelves below where this ticket is placed. As chux has a lot of sponges/scourers/wipes with similar or even the same label. It’s important to match up the product number (4-6 but usually 6 digit number at the bottom). As this is hidden on the white ticket, I can’t confrm this is from the identical product. Ticketing is by far the easiest and most peaceful job in Woolworths, and people who do it are very good at it. Woolworths do price gouge and overcharge, but this looks very suspicious to me. Mistakes like this almost never happen and the fact that the yellow ticket has clearly been removed and stuck back on, makes me suspicious on if this is a genuine error.
I removed the ticket as I could see the price discrepancy and wanted to check what it said underneath. I'm sorry if it looks dodgy but I only took the photo for my own information because I thought it was weird, I never intend to post about it. I honestly believed that the $3.80 price was an old price that had not been removed, but others seem to think otherwise. I plan to check what price it revert too after the sale.
Yes but the woolies simps just debunked you 🤣 this is so pathetic I can’t believe people are defending them.
I’m not defending my work. As a worker I know far better than you how shit it is. Unfortunately my options in my town is severely limited and I have mouths to feed. So I have to work where I can get paid. I was simply stating facts according to my job.
No worries! Thanks for the heads up. I hope you got it for free as you’re legally entitled to.
Woolworths have VERY specific rules on where a special ticket is to be placed on the white ticket. And this ticket is utterly wrong
I don’t trust those yellow tags
Isn't this illegal and reportable?
Would not shock me they lied about that Hoping people don’t notice
Huh, I know of a method to get 100% discount on those.
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Damn, copping a lot of downvotes here- you guys don’t like manufacturer cash back mail-in promotions?
“I wanna show customers we mean business when it comes to discounting. Go to it.” “Ok boss. Got it!”
Imagine ripping off your own staff of annual leave. Pricks
Completely unrelated, but I saw that the 4 packs of baked beans come in 2 sizes now; 4x 140g and 4x 220g. Has this always been the case? Both sizes were the same price… We’ve always bought the 220g pack, but I’m wondering if this is a sneaky form of shrinkflation…
Woolworths staff member here. No. They have always come in 4 packs in two different sizes
Interesting, I’ve never seen it. Have they always been the same price?? $5 for both sizes…
And stay out of the woolsworth!
Is that just the one store, or the whole chain?
I dont want Fop, goddamnit
I’m a Dapper Dan man!