My wife and I were going to hang out at a friend's house on Saturday night. We stopped at Stop & Shop to pick up some snackies before we went over. Now at S&S, I’m all about the Scan Savers….items that the store puts on sale, and you have a little card on your keychain you scan, and you’re registered for the discounts…kinda like a coupon without the coupon. So we see a nice shrimp platter, already cleaned, cooked and ready to go….and on scan saver! 12.99 regular, 9.60 w/the saver discount. So I grab one….
Checkout time….we’re going through self checkout…and the scan saver for the shrimp does not register. Other stuff we bought on saver did register, so I knew it was not me. Now in CT, the state law is if an item scans higher than the advertised price, you get that item for free. That’s to prevent the stores from scamming consumers. I had someone come over, and she voided out the overpriced one and manually keyed in the price on the price tag. I said, hey don’t I get that free now? And she says she doesn’t know, talk to the service desk. Fine.
I told the woman behind the counter the deal…she says because I had it voided out and the right price put in, that I was SOL. I say, that doesn’t matter…it scanned wrong and now the Shrimp are free. She disagreed with me, and we started talking over each other, at increasing tones………at this point, my wife walks away, hehehe, because she wants no part of this confrontation….and God forbid the old weirdo who was scratching lotto tickets stare at us hahahha. Anyway, I say to the woman, what should I have done? Stopped checking out to come over here? And she says yes. I say that’s crazy, what should have happened is that the woman who voided it out should have keyed in 0 for the price. Then this numbnut says, well then that would’ve been like stealing, and then we would’ve had the cops follow you out. I say, no, Stop and Shop was trying to steal 3 dollars from me! Refund my Money!
Then she goes, well I’m going to do it for you
this time. I say no, you’re going to do it
every time. It’s the law. She says no, it’s just S&S policy. I again say no, it’s CT state law, now refund me my money. She’s all pissed off at this point….wtf, it’s not your money biotch. Heh. So a manager happens to show up, unrelated to this incident. She shows him my receipt and he’s like yeah, fine. See, he knew they were wrong. Hahah.
The best part, is that though I only paid $9.60 for the shrimp, they refunded me the full advertised price, 13 dollars. Hahahhaha. I walked out of there feeling fucking fantastic! The man tried to stick it to me, and he failed miserably! LOL.
Nothing tastes quite as sweet as free shrimp won in Victory!!!!!!! I’m not sure what the laws are state by state, but they do have to have a sign posted by the service desk if it’s in effect. Check it out, and don’t let them get over on you if it overscans. Thanks for reading my story hehehhe.