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Frugal and Energy Efficient Living

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TheBlackAdder

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Sat Sep 6, 2025, 05:25 PM Saturday

Check Your Receipts: How Stores Are Sneaking In Extra Charges [View all]




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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