The past couple weeks I have seen in the two Walmarts I way too frequently frequent what you see documented above in a photo my phone took a few minutes ago.
I refer to that big arrow pointing down, with the signage advising shoppers "Can't find a price? You can check it right here."
Except you can't. The price scanner devices have been removed from those two aforementioned Walmarts which I way too frequently frequent.
These now meaningless arrow pointing signs are located throughout the stores. These price check scanners were useful due to the fact that Walmart can be a bit sloppy with making clear the cost of an item sitting on a shelf with a lot of other items.
When the Walmart price scanners were still available one would see products left near the scanner, leading one to assume that someone checked the price and found out it was not what they were expecting. And so left the product at the scanner location.
Now, I have not found Walmart making pricing mistakes often, and by mistake I mean that the price which rings up is not the price indicated by the price sticker on the shelf.
With Walmart I have found the price mistake can go either way, as in more than I thought the cost was, or less. The most recent example of the latter is I picked up a pack of frozen salmon filets, thought the pack was $11, due to the price tag on the shelf under the salmon. But, those frozen salmon filets rang up at $7.94.
When I lived in Washington there was a grocery store which was chronic with price mistakes.
Albertsons.
I was appalled when I first arrived in Texas and asked a local what was the best grocery store in the area, with Albertsons being the answer.
There used to be an Albertsons in the town I am currently in, but, I think the three Walmarts in this town caused Albertsons to not be able to survive. Even though Albertsons aggravated me, this did not stop me from buying something there every once in awhile.
Such as the Albertsons fried chicken. I liked their fried chicken...
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