Woolworths shopper furious after falling for ‘sneaky money trick’ while at the supermarket: ‘Well played’
- Woolworths customer claims to have fallen for the ‘oldest trick’
- A shelf of John West tinned fish appeared to be on sale
- But only the tuna was half price and had signs, not the salmon
A Woolworths customer claims to have fallen for the ‘oldest trick’ in the book while grocery shopping.
The Brisbane customer accused the supermarket giant of stashing a full-priced item among a shelf of sale products and posted a photo on Reddit.
The image depicts a fully stacked shelf of John West tinned fish with three yellow signs alerting customers the buy has been reduce by half price to $1.35 each.
But upon a closer inspection, the John West pink salmon tins on the third shelf from the top isn’t marked as a sale item.
On Reddit the shopper wrote: ‘Well played Woolies, you got me at the register for $2.60 each.’
A shopper has accused Woolworths of hiding full-priced tins of John West fish on a shelf stacked with half-priced items. On Reddit the customer wrote: ‘Fell for their oldest trick. Sneak the full priced item into the middle of the sale section’
‘Fell for their oldest trick. Sneak the full priced item into the middle of the sale section. Yeah I could have left them at the register, but they know and I knew I would just suck it up,’ the shopper continued.
‘It was also on special but different percent. I normally pay $2.80 per can, but register said ‘$2.60, you saved 60 cents.’ I guess this is their way of transitioning into a price increase to $3.20.
‘I know this is only tiny amounts, but a s**** me to tears all these little micro scabby actions – shrinkflation and pumping up prices before discounting.’
However, Daily Mail Australia understands the tins of John West salmon were accidentally placed on the incorrect display and the issue has likely been attended to at the store.
Customers are encouraged to point out errors on display to Woolworths employees.
Daily Mail Australia understands the tins of John West salmon were accidentally placed on the incorrect display and the issue has been attended to at the store. Customers are encouraged to point out errors on display to Woolworths employees
Many were quick to defended the Woolworths employer who made the ‘easy mistake’.
‘Used to work at Woolies, ain’t no scheme. Can guarantee some night fill bloke who’s … seen a tuna special so filled it up with what he thought was all tuna,’ one person wrote.
‘Front-end checkout girls are gonna cop hell the next day when all the Karens who docket check demand that they all be free because of mispricing.’
‘Not Woolies trying to rip you off, most likely an employee just placing it in the wrong spot,’ another added.
A third added: ‘Not Woolies trying to rip you off, most likely an employee just placing it in the wrong spot’.
Others said the customer should’ve been paying closer attention to the display.
‘Common sense would say to read the sign,’ one person wrote, another said: ‘The tuna is being advertised as $1.35. The salmon has no price indicated.’
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