Retail Rip-Offs

I do not enjoy shopping.

Okay this is not entirely true.  I quite like shopping online.

Shopping online is perfect because I can spend money while sitting in my favourite chair, in my favourite room while watching my favourite TV show. Also everything is delivered to you.  What could be better?

Actual shopping in a store is horrible.  You have to trawl through the racks to find the right item in the correct size.  Inevitably, the size you want, is the very size that is not longer there.  Or the colour or style.

If you are lucky enough to find what you want, there are dressing rooms to tackle, crowds to manoeuvre around and the long wait at the checkout.

Today, with LOML (Love of my Life) in tow, I went to a very well known variety store.  This store advertises widely that you 'get more. pay less'.  I'm sure you know who it is.

Arriving at the store today there were signs everywhere saying '$10 off ... when you spend $60 or more on clothing, sleepwear, underwear, footwear and accessories for the whole family'.

Cool, I thought.  I was there to buy footwear and clothing and $10 off is always welcome.

We spent far more than the required $60 and expected to see the $10 off at checkout ..... but NO!!

First condition was (in the smallest print possible) that the discount was not applicable to the 'essentials' line.  Okay.  Still expecting the $10 off, we were told that the other $150 worth of shoes and clothing we had chosen already had discount applied to them and therefore were not eligible for more discount.

When I questioned where this discount was marked on the tags or docket, I was told that the discount was 'built into' the price.   WTF!

No amount of talking could convince the store representatives that this was ridiculous.   We left, with our shopping, but no discount.

Be very wary folks.  Stores can put up all the signs they like about discount, but when it comes to applying this at checkout time, they have ways and means to avoid giving you any discount at all.