Replacing price tags on products price, Replacing, products, tags

kaimui22

today I saw the most dispicable thing happen @ Metrotown superstore..

I was with my family when I saw 2 chinese ladies pushing two carts. Each had a 5-drawer shelf in their cart. So I looked around to see if it was on sale...I saw the price tag at the shelf was $31.99/each.

Then I walked closer to the ladie's carts and saw that it had a yellow sticker with $4.96 on it. I recognized the yellow sticker to be from the clearance kids clothing in the next aisle. So I stayed close to those ladies and they just kept adding item after item into their cart..all with a yellow price tag ($3.96, $4.96..etc).

One of the ladies then appeared with an iron, with a $3.96 sticker on it. She said to the other lady "哇﹐這個要成$40! 但我家裡已經有一個﹐要不要好?" then the other lady said "又不是貴﹐你看﹐其他人都想買﹐快D拿走啦"....

I told my husband about these 2 ladies so he went towards them to listen a bit more.....then what he heard was amazing:

Lady 1 : " 怕不怕啊﹐如果他問起來該怎麼辦?"
Lady 2 : "扮無知就得啦!當聽不懂﹐死口否認就okay ga la!"

Then the second lady took ANOTHER iron and it magically turned into $3.96 again.

I didn't SEE them put the stickers on but I was pretty sure those items are not clearance..and I also heard them say to pretend they don't understand english when asked. Then I went to buy my stuff and after I paid, they were at another counter, beside mine. The cashier didn't even scan the items...she just say the price tag and typed it into the machine and they paid $4.96 for a $32 shelf and $3.96 for a $40 iron. The next lady skipped couple of persons and bought the same items, same price.

i feel so ashamed to see chinese people doing this...BTW, they spoke CANTONESE.
but then, the cashier was also stupid not to scan the item or question the cost...if she had scanned the barcode, she would've seen it was much more expensive than they priced it.

sigh~

華美子

If I were you, I would notify the staff there.  This is almost like stealing.

abcvancouver

Yes, agree, this is stealing.

ordinary_girl

i would have gone over to that cashier and tell her the truth..........

siuming

the cashier is quite stupid. lol

its_visa

i no !
how can the cashier be THAT dumb?
omg...
4.96 for a shelf ?
COME ONNN use ur brain mannn ! -__-

kaimui22

it was at superstore and they did NOT scan the barcode. The ladies had taken some of the demos off the floor..therefore the item didn't have a barcode on them. For example, there was like 6 or 7 irons on display..she took one of them from the display (they weren't locked down) and she even went over to a power plug to try it out. She didn't take a boxed iron to the cashier so there was no barcode..and the cashier didn't bother asking either.

I think they took the sticker off the shelf and the girl didn't ask for a price-check so she just plugged those numbers in..we saw the whole process. She didn't even try to scan them.

BTW, I have no "proof" that they stuck the stickers on..I just heard them discussing it after they did it. How can I proof that they had done the scam? And even if I told the cashier, the ladies could've just acted dumb and pretend that they didn't know the real price. They were already discussing on what to do if they were caught...

they could really just say :
"Oh, I saw this somewhere somewhere and the price tag was already on it. Oh, so it's not on sale, oh well. Then I won't buy it."

Alcoholic

直情係偷野啦！
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Guy

Cantonese........Sigh...shame