On Thu, 27 Mar 2008 22:29:34 +0000, Alex Heney
wrote:
>On Thu, 27 Mar 2008 11:09:10 +0000, MM wrote:
>
>>On Wed, 26 Mar 2008 23:56:12 +0000, Alex Heney
>>wrote:
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>>>On Wed, 26 Mar 2008 08:31:48 +0000, MM wrote:
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>>>>On Tue, 25 Mar 2008 22:55:16 +0000, Alex Heney
>>>>wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>And I agree with Cynic here. It isn't, without incurring exorbitant
>>>>>cost.
>>>>
>>>>This is nonsense. The staff member has to get the price from
>>>>SOMEwhere, so why not just get the CORRECT price? You, like Cynic,
>>>>make the application of correct price labels seem like a climb up
>>>>Mount Everest. It isn't. It's a mundane, everyday task that takes no
>>>>effort whatsoever. Applying the wrong price is just laziness, or
>>>>carelessness, or deliberate fraud on the part of stores to make their
>>>>prices seem more competitive, knowing that the vast majority of
>>>>shoppers never check their receipts. Even if they risk deliberate
>>>>fraud, they have little to fear from TS, as we have seen in these
>>>>posts, since they can always claim "'twas an error, guv!"
>>>
>>>Why the . did you snip most of my post?
>>>
>>>The parts which made it quite clear why I agree with Cynic, and make a
>>>nonsense of your claims?
>>
>>My claim is not nonsense, it is common sense.
>
>It is only common sense if you work on the basis that prices are only
>ever created once for a given item.
No, it's common sense the first, second, third, nth time, however many
prices an item goes through in its lifetime. Take Heinz beans. They
have been sold in British supermarkets for donkey's years, but the
price today is not the same as it was ten years ago. Each time a price
label needs to be placed the first time, or updated on subsequent
price changes, any store should provide the staff member with a list
of prices. If the list is WRONG, then that is due to carelessness.
Someone cocked up. They didn't make a mistake, they cocked up. Just
like today at T5. A very major SNAFU. Every wrong price label is a
SNAFU. It's common sense.
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>The FIRST time a price is put on the shelf for an item, I agree that
>it is very little more effort to put out a correct price than a wrong
>one.
Not: "very little more effort", but NO extra effort, not one iota.
Zilch extra. Just do it right first time. Airline pilots have to, else
people die. Oh, and tell Cynic you agree with me, okay?
>But when prices change it is very easy to miss putting a new price on
>something (say you dropped one label without noticing, or one was
>stuck to the back of another you put out).
It is only easy when the staff member is being careless, a condition
that would render the employee unemployable in my store, if I had one.
If you dropped the label without noticing, then you're being careless.
It is YOUR job to take care! The store is paying you to behave
properly and take every precaution to do the job you're paid to do -
which in this instance is affixing price labels to shelves. Hardly
rocket science, fot God's sake!
>In order to be sure this has not happened, you would need a second
>person going around with a list of all the changed prices, making sure
>that the new prices were all there.
No, you do NOT need a second person, for, based on that argument, who
would check the second person? You gonna send around a third person? A
fourth?
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MM |