REPUBLICANS FAIL MICHIGAN RESIDENTS - NO ITEM PRICING ROBS RESIDENTS
If you have gone shopping today - the Christmas Clearance Sales - you will have been confused and angry, that the items you wanted to purchase that you thought were marked down, were NOT...they didnt have an item price and the items were put on shelves with a generic 50 - 75% off signs, but they were mixed and matched, in some cases, with regular merchandise, allowing you to believe they were clearance items. In most cases - you couldn't tell what your purchase price was because - it was not priced and you had no way other than to go to the check out lines to find - the price.
Wal-Mart have shelves of Christmas merchandise next to regular store items and customers pushed and shoved them together and so no one knew what was clearance. There are not enough price scanners in any of Michigan stores and the Attorney General Bill Schutte is failing to monitor the - out of control - robbing of Michigan consumers.
Staples, CVS Drugs, Macy's, Target etc etc etc have failed to make the switch from item pricing to shelf pricing much more harder by failing to properly tag items on the shelves and to make them readable to seniors and customers with poor vision and anyone that can't bend down or raise up to see the pricing on the shelves.
The stores fail to have sufficient price scanners - and in locations so that customers don't have to drag merchandise around the store to get a price. Stores also, fail to have their computer pricing match, the regular price, discount price or clearance prices.
Michigan residents are being robbed, cheated - because their is no enforcement of the No Item Pricing law and the penalties are insufficient to force businesses or to encourage them to comply - the penalties are a joke - and with no enforcement
Michigan no recourse - complain to the AG Schuette - most resident just wont complain, to the AG or store manager - but you must.
If you have a problem with a purchase price, make a scene - get the manager and complain to him, complain to the corporate website by email or phone - Don't allow yourself to be robbed by businesses that make millions and billions of dollars, while you may be pinching pennies.
I don't know how other state get by without 'item pricing' but Michigan residents are not be protected.
The 99% must be protected...Republicans in Michigan are not doing it....DLM
Showing posts with label ITEM PRICING. Show all posts
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Monday, December 26, 2011
Wednesday, November 30, 2011
ITEM PRICING - MAIL IN REBATES - CHEATING MICHIGAN RESIDENTS
I accumulated 175, 630 PNC Bank Points (April 2007 - lost some) they are good for
48 months. I had to call their Manilla, Philippines call center to redeem them as cash - it took 36 minutes...
I redeemed 170,000+ points for $344.00....
What do you think?? - which are good programs and which are not - when I looked to buy something with them a year ago - the items for purchase were at MSRP (it seemed) and not a good buy...is it better to take cash???...............
Also - The non Item Pricing Law is cheating customers - stores are failing to post visible prices and those that are posted on shelves are too small for seniors or people wearing glasses to see...and stores are just not posting prices on items, leaving customers to lug item up to the cashiers.
Younkers in Lansing had at least 4 items with no price visible and their pricing kiosk was malfunctioning. Now four items don't sound like a lot - but I didn't check for more.
CVS has one price scanner - requiring you to lug any item across the store to it....they also have clearance items with no prices and computer prices, that dont tell you what the previous price was - so you dont know what the amount of savings are for an item.
Staples has a clearance shelf and table where some items are item priced and others that are not - and sometimes the price and computer price don't match up - leaving the buyer at the mercy of the store clerk to give a price.
There is a serious lack of price scanners in stores...and lack of enforcement to make stores comply - now consumers are at the mercy of stores - and their computers, which often are updated properly. Consumers are getting cheated.............................
Mail in Rebates - are cheating Michigan residents out of millions and millions of dollars - because of the extensive requirements that are needed to redeem the rebate: original receipt (what if you want to return item?), original or copied sales receipt, rebate form, etc...and you have to pay to mail it in...and then it may get lost in the mail or at the rebate center, and unless you are very very organized - you may never know that you didn't get a rebate.
Stores should be required by law - to issue the rebates at the cashier....that way customers get their rebates instantly, no muss no fuss...and if item is returned - the customer gets what he/she paid for item.
Contact your state legislator and tell them of your concerns and tell the store manager - you are upset with these failures to protect the consumer and register a complaint with the company via their websites...
We need to say: We deserve better - we deserve to be protected.
48 months. I had to call their Manilla, Philippines call center to redeem them as cash - it took 36 minutes...
I redeemed 170,000+ points for $344.00....
What do you think?? - which are good programs and which are not - when I looked to buy something with them a year ago - the items for purchase were at MSRP (it seemed) and not a good buy...is it better to take cash???...............
Also - The non Item Pricing Law is cheating customers - stores are failing to post visible prices and those that are posted on shelves are too small for seniors or people wearing glasses to see...and stores are just not posting prices on items, leaving customers to lug item up to the cashiers.
Younkers in Lansing had at least 4 items with no price visible and their pricing kiosk was malfunctioning. Now four items don't sound like a lot - but I didn't check for more.
CVS has one price scanner - requiring you to lug any item across the store to it....they also have clearance items with no prices and computer prices, that dont tell you what the previous price was - so you dont know what the amount of savings are for an item.
Staples has a clearance shelf and table where some items are item priced and others that are not - and sometimes the price and computer price don't match up - leaving the buyer at the mercy of the store clerk to give a price.
There is a serious lack of price scanners in stores...and lack of enforcement to make stores comply - now consumers are at the mercy of stores - and their computers, which often are updated properly. Consumers are getting cheated.............................
Mail in Rebates - are cheating Michigan residents out of millions and millions of dollars - because of the extensive requirements that are needed to redeem the rebate: original receipt (what if you want to return item?), original or copied sales receipt, rebate form, etc...and you have to pay to mail it in...and then it may get lost in the mail or at the rebate center, and unless you are very very organized - you may never know that you didn't get a rebate.
Stores should be required by law - to issue the rebates at the cashier....that way customers get their rebates instantly, no muss no fuss...and if item is returned - the customer gets what he/she paid for item.
Contact your state legislator and tell them of your concerns and tell the store manager - you are upset with these failures to protect the consumer and register a complaint with the company via their websites...
We need to say: We deserve better - we deserve to be protected.
Sunday, October 23, 2011
FIREWORKS - ITEM PRICING, WRONG FOR MICHIGAN
Protect Michigan residents and consumers - propose a law to BAN - mail in rebates !! Thousands of Michigan residents lose hundreds of millions of dollars, by being forced to mail in sales reciepts (some originals), fill out forms, and then use their own stamps to mail them in - and not recieve their rebates or have an avenue to pursue them.
Rebates can be given to customers at the time of purchase, with the rebate deducted back to the store, if the item is returned (so that no one loses).
Item pricing - decieving consumers - leaving them clueless - I dont know how other states do it - but Michigan companies are hurting consumers by not pricing items, so that it can be seen and not having pricing stations withing easy access ...law needs revision. CSV Drugs, Staples, and ACO Hardware, make it hard to find out prices of items, and often don't have shelf pricing - A manager at ACO (W Chicago - Telegraph / Redford) told me customers knock off the pricing slips on the shelves and that ACO doesn't need to have pricing stations (because they cost $1,000 or more) and that big stores like Meijers can afford them.
DANGER: I spent part of my career trying to protect children from dangerous fireworks - and now the Michigan Legislature wants to expose children to injury and death - for more revenue!!Wrong...Illegal fireworks now under Michigan law can cause maiming, injurty and death to children - I have seen children as young as 5 with money in their hands trying to buy fireworks and unscrupulous vedors, ready to take their money.
What's more disturbing is that the Detroit Free Press endorses this lunacy !!
If Ohio and Indiana and other state sell Illegal and Dangerous fireworks - let them - Michigan does not have to emulate or conform to dangerous practices and laws -to get a few more dollars for the State Treasury.
Rebates can be given to customers at the time of purchase, with the rebate deducted back to the store, if the item is returned (so that no one loses).
Item pricing - decieving consumers - leaving them clueless - I dont know how other states do it - but Michigan companies are hurting consumers by not pricing items, so that it can be seen and not having pricing stations withing easy access ...law needs revision. CSV Drugs, Staples, and ACO Hardware, make it hard to find out prices of items, and often don't have shelf pricing - A manager at ACO (W Chicago - Telegraph / Redford) told me customers knock off the pricing slips on the shelves and that ACO doesn't need to have pricing stations (because they cost $1,000 or more) and that big stores like Meijers can afford them.
DANGER: I spent part of my career trying to protect children from dangerous fireworks - and now the Michigan Legislature wants to expose children to injury and death - for more revenue!!Wrong...Illegal fireworks now under Michigan law can cause maiming, injurty and death to children - I have seen children as young as 5 with money in their hands trying to buy fireworks and unscrupulous vedors, ready to take their money.
What's more disturbing is that the Detroit Free Press endorses this lunacy !!
If Ohio and Indiana and other state sell Illegal and Dangerous fireworks - let them - Michigan does not have to emulate or conform to dangerous practices and laws -to get a few more dollars for the State Treasury.
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