Blacks - money saving!

adl999

I was out shopping today and the icy winds were really freezing my ears off!

I popped into Blacks (the outdoor shop) and found they had a range of winter woolies for sale, which were very popular! However, the pre-printed prices on all the tags had been blacked (no pun intended) out with a marker. I picked up a cosy hat which clearly had £9.99 printed on the tag, visible through the marker pen and took it to the checkout.

It rang up as £12.99! Clearly the management was trying it on and had marked up the prices on the winter warmers for unsuspecting shoppers - or their VAT increase calculations were out!

I pointed out that it was still visibly price marked at £9.99 and the cashier discounted it without blinking an eyelid...

I did it quite loudly, and the queue was quite long, so I hope the people behind me heard and did the same thing!

BTW - the guy before me bought a winter coat for £180, and I got a similar one (a good brand) in TK Maxx for just £30!!

GaryT_2

Wow, thats ridiculous. Hopefully everyone behind you did hear you and double checked everything that they had.

I've been in similar situations before where certain clothing items would be hanging on a sales rack and then once you get to the register with 20 other items they try to skip the discount prices thinking you won't notice.

Now a days you pretty much have to watch out for EVERYONE, its horrible..

philatio

Doesn't surprise me.

Ordered a North Face jacket that was reduced in their online sale.
Stated "in stock".

Today, a week later.. email saying the orders cancelled cos they've no stock.

Absolute joke.

welshryda

Totally agreee you really need to be careful and check the til price on everything happened to 4 items of clothing to me at the NEXT sale on boxing day!