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TheBlackAdder

(29,842 posts) Sat Sep 6, 2025, 04:25 PM Sep 6

Check Your Receipts: How Stores Are Sneaking In Extra Charges

Stores are applying the following tricks to take your money, and it's not just Wal*Mart.

1) Adopting 10K lighting to make people anxious and rush their shopping so they don't make logical decisions.

2) Adding a dollar or two to the tagged prices of the merchandise.

3) Adding fabricated merchandise charges to your receipt to boost the bill.

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Check Your Receipts: How Stores Are Sneaking In Extra Charges (Original Post) TheBlackAdder Sep 6 OP

I got overcharged $5.00 on a 6 ounce tub of pecorino a couple months ago bucolic_frolic Sep 6 #1

A local grocery store routinely "misses" coupon deductions on their receipts dlk Sep 6 #2

All businesses are starting to add 2%-5% Miguelito Loveless Friday #3

bucolic_frolic

(53,230 posts)

1. I got overcharged $5.00 on a 6 ounce tub of pecorino a couple months ago

Reply to TheBlackAdder (Original post)

Sat Sep 6, 2025, 04:52 PM

Sep 6

I chalked it up to scarcity or dept manager trying to make quota.

Never again. This was in a regionally owned Ahold affiliate.

But almost every store prices are higher at the checkout on something ... 20 cents on zucchini, or asparagus, or could be anything really.

dlk

(13,023 posts)

2. A local grocery store routinely "misses" coupon deductions on their receipts

Reply to TheBlackAdder (Original post)

Sat Sep 6, 2025, 05:50 PM

Sep 6

It’s a good idea to check every receipt

Miguelito Loveless

(5,346 posts)

3. All businesses are starting to add 2%-5%

Reply to TheBlackAdder (Original post)

Fri Nov 7, 2025, 03:51 PM

Friday

to sales paid by credit card, passing along their "cost of business" to consumers as a separate charge even after they adjusted their prices for the fee.

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