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~

Intelstan

There are many cheap people in the world and those 2 ladies just happen to be cantonese-speaking cheap people.  I think the fault belongs to the dumb cashier.

kaimui22

thank you 華美子

我本來開這個thread只是想告訴大家我所看到的行為
沒想到﹐到頭來我竟然被blame...說我種族歧視﹐說我這種行為害了大家的物價加升﹐甚至說到我好像無膽鬼.

原來報告一個我所看到的行為會讓我犯了這麼多罪行....真的沒想到.
突然間我的罪行比偷東西的人更嚴重.....

我只是一個報導者﹐為什麼大家突然會化身成"正義英雄"﹖
還有...突然很多人都有assumption...assume我歧視講廣東華的人﹐assume我歧視沒有price check的cashier...assume that I've never "mixed" with other ethnic groups..assume that we all read newspaper and magazines in the supermarket without paying...etc etc

why are there so many assumptions? how many of you guys posting in here actually know who I am, what I believe in and what I do? How do you know I haven't "mixed" in with other ethnic groups? Do I really need to explain myself that I've lived here for almost 20 years and have "mixed" in with other ethnic groups nicely? That I used to have best friends that were Indian, Chinese, Korean, White?

it's easy to put the blame on someone else..but before you do, please have the facts straight and don't make "assumptions". If you really want to blame, blame it on something that you are sure about, based on concrete facts.

華美子

我相信kaimui22這個thread寫的原意是講比我地聽有件咁既事發生，請大家唔好執Ｄ雞毛蒜皮既野黎話佢啦，偷野個個又唔係佢，有好多野當事人無交待清楚唔代表你猜測既係事實，無需下下講說話語氣用到咁重，息事寧人可以嗎？

kaimui22

maldini:  I never said this is a Chinese problem? All I said was..I saw some chinese ladies doing this sort of thing. Why is everyone so sensitive nowadays that one cannot mention the ethnicity of the "crooks" in their posts? So next time I see something happen, should I even mention the gender? Or will that be labeled as sexism too? I am not discriminating against Chinese nor am I implying all crimes committed this way is by Chinese. All I wrote is a summary of what I saw and it so happens this time I saw 2 Chinese ladies who did it.

Chobit:  It is easy to say now how I should have went to the staff..but what would you do if you were holding your baby around, trying to get your groceries done and checking out of the supermarket? By the way, they left the area before and I didn't follow them. I went to buy baby formula. Wouldn't it be weird and dangerous to follow them around with my baby with me? And I saw them check out AFTER I left superstore. I was standing outside feeding my baby when I saw them check out with no problems. What should I have done? Rush over to the cashier, stop them in the middle of the transaction and tell them what I THOUGHT happened? Again, I DIDN'T see them switch the price tag. This is all an assumption brought up by their conversation.

As for the comment about how caucasians are smart, I never implied or wrote which culture the cashier belonged to. In fact, there are smart and dumb people in every culture..and not all CEOs are smart and not all cashiers are lower-class either. Each person is in a different situation and maybe some people are smarter than those who excel academically and some people are more socially-smart. Being stuck in a job that is considered "lower-class" doesn't mean the person is automatically intellectually placed in that level.

AND, I don't read the newspaper or magazines at a grocery or bookstore. I look at the cover and if  I want to buy it, I will. Not everyone looks through the books or magazines as you have implied.

miky

原帖由 chobit 於 2008-3-14 10:19 發表
I am surprised you didn't tell the staffs.  Think about how all this money that they saved, would end up coming from your own pocket as well.

EL

ya we are the ones who will end up paying their "savings"
changing price tags is considered a criminal activity la
sigh...it's not like they NEED the things and don't have the $$ to pay for it!

but with those self check-out at metro, ppl can steal too?
i think superstore expects these things to happen and the prices incorporate
these "costs"..which sucks..

chobit

Well.. don't we all go to the supermarket or bookstore and read their books or magazine as well?

EL

原帖由 myversa 於 2008-3-9 22:18 發表
I often saw Chinese sitting on the floor reading Singtao or Mingpao.....

chobit

You know how you hear people saying how some saying caucasians are not smart...!  As I am not working in the US, and meeting many other Educated people.  I can tell you for sure they are indeed very smart..!

Somehow, I think the smart ones are in upper class working field like the CEO, etc..!  And guess what.., those who are doing cash, and sale...!?

EL

原帖由 its_visa 於 2008-3-9 18:15 發表
i no !
how can the cashier be THAT dumb?
omg...
4.96 for a shelf ?
COME ONNN use ur brain mannn ! -__-

chobit

I am surprised you didn't tell the staffs.  Think about how all this money that they saved, would end up coming from your own pocket as well.

EL

原帖由 kaimui22 於 2008-3-9 15:17 發表
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 t ...

maldini

This is not a Chinese problem. This type of stealing technique happens all over the world with all ethnic groups. You people should mix more with other ethnic groups and go to another city or country where there are fewer Chinese people, then you will realize there are crooks from all ethnic groups.