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Price wrongly

4suzie · 2017-12-30 10:42:35

I have just been to Morrisons and bought some frozen king prawns priced £3 luckily I checked my receipt and I had been charged £5 for them, I looked again at the shelf where I got them from and there was a price ticket for £3 but on reading the price ticket it was not for the king prawns that I had bought but some other…

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jackieblack Posts: 10,595 Forumite

7 January 2018 at 5:36PM edited 7 January 2018 at 5:44PM

CardinalWolsey wrote: »

Choose a supermarket where you can self-scan. That way you are able to verify the price of every single item as you do your shop, rather than relying upon your memory at checkout.

I always self scan but have had a few items lately (and this appears to be happening more frequently) which have been on offer but the self scanner shows the full price and this is then adjusted to the (correct) reduced price at the checkout. So far, this has adjusted correctly each time but it is a pain having to try and remember so I can check.

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