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TM875 · 12-21-2004, 05:52 PM

Have you ever sat for 6 hours on a weekday afternoon, punching in endless strings of PLU code into a computer so that the next week's sale items print out correctly? I have, and I was just a bakery sales specalist. 6 hours, for about 30 price changes. That's about comperable to what seafood has to deal with. PLUs are long, confusing numbers - easy to make a mistake.

The real one to blame in your store is the price coordinator. S/He should have caught the error on Sunday and reported it, so that the computers should have gotten changed. Because she didn't (and each store is its own entity after the original prices have been sent, thus it's not the corporation to blame), the overcharge is her fault. Go bash in her windows.

Milk is a government regulated product. There is a price floor - ie: lowest price allowable to be charged. The larger the seller, the more the distribute, the higher the floor (the government realizes they sell a lot, so they exploit them in order to make up for the extra that they have to buy; supply exceeds demand). Thus, milk is more expensive at S&S because they have to pay the government more per container sold. That gas station, a lower volume seller, needs to pay out less per milk.

Or the gas station could be breaking the law. Either way.

12-21-2004, 05:52 PM	#42 (permalink)
TM875 Addict Location: Amish-land, PA	Have you ever sat for 6 hours on a weekday afternoon, punching in endless strings of PLU code into a computer so that the next week's sale items print out correctly? I have, and I was just a bakery sales specalist. 6 hours, for about 30 price changes. That's about comperable to what seafood has to deal with. PLUs are long, confusing numbers - easy to make a mistake. The real one to blame in your store is the price coordinator. S/He should have caught the error on Sunday and reported it, so that the computers should have gotten changed. Because she didn't (and each store is its own entity after the original prices have been sent, thus it's not the corporation to blame), the overcharge is her fault. Go bash in her windows. Milk is a government regulated product. There is a price floor - ie: lowest price allowable to be charged. The larger the seller, the more the distribute, the higher the floor (the government realizes they sell a lot, so they exploit them in order to make up for the extra that they have to buy; supply exceeds demand). Thus, milk is more expensive at S&S because they have to pay the government more per container sold. That gas station, a lower volume seller, needs to pay out less per milk. Or the gas station could be breaking the law. Either way. __________________ "I've made only one mistake in my life. But I made it over and over and over. That was saying 'yes' when I meant 'no'. Forgive me."