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TheBlackAdder

(29,678 posts) Sat Sep 6, 2025, 05:25 PM Saturday

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 Saturday OP

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

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

bucolic_frolic

(52,305 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, 05:52 PM

Saturday

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

(12,924 posts)

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

Reply to TheBlackAdder (Original post)

Sat Sep 6, 2025, 06:50 PM

Saturday

It’s a good idea to check every receipt

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