Re:Alexa Is in Households–and Amazon Is Losing Billions
by bombcar on Thursday July 25, 2024 @08:24AM
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It’s not only Instacart. The first target that I ever went to that had a grocery store had turkeys that had been labeled at $.25. Not $.25 a pound. I pointed it out to the cashier multiple times and she couldn’t understand what I was complaining about so eventually, I went home with my $.25 turkey.
Re:Alexa Is in Households–and Amazon Is Losing Billions
by LorenPechtel on Thursday July 25, 2024 @05:36PM
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I've seen fixed-price turkey before. But not 25 cents.
On the flip side, many local places have gone to pricing bananas by the each.
Re:Alexa Is in Households–and Amazon Is Losing Billions
by bombcar on Friday July 26, 2024 @08:04AM
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Each has significant advantages - it means you do NOT need a state-certified scale for transactions; you just count.
It was obvious that that Target had never priced anything per pound before (it had just been remodeled to have a supermarket) and an employee fat-fingered the label. But the cashier had no recourse and I wasn't going to fight it hard.
(The same Target also had some clearance steaks for like ten cents a pound because they were close to expiration because none of the customers were expecting a supermarket in their target and weren’t buying perishables.)
I once ordered qty. 6 bananas from Instacart, expecting one fairly-medium bunch of bananas to show up with about 6 fruits in that bunch. The listing clearly showed that it was for "quantity", not "weight."
But I got 6 pounds of bananas, which is a ton for a single person living by themself. [And I don't bake, so I got plenty of fresh potassium that week.]
It only happened once. After that, I started leaving careful notes that describe each item where quantity/volume/weight might be confusing and things have been fine.
(I could have complained and Instacart would have rubber-stamped a refund for that part of the order without discussion, but it wasn't worth that much effort.)