Friday, October 17, 2014

An Almost Free Haul and a Rant About Walmart Price Matching

Good afternoon readers,

Today I have a couple of hauls for you...one of which that was completely free...and at the end of this post, a little bit of a rant about my Walmart price matching experience last night. I'll start with the haul though.



Dollar General:
Transaction #1
 Toothpaste $1.00
Toothpaste $1.00
Toothpaste $1.00
Toothpaste $1.00

= $4.00
-$1/1 coupon (not sure what insert as I purchased online)
Total: $.32 of tax

Transaction #2
 Toothpaste $1.00
Toothpaste $1.00
Toothpaste $1.00
Toothpaste $1.00

= $4.00
-$1/1 coupon (not sure what insert as I purchased online)
Total: $.32 of tax

Transaction #3
 Toothpaste $1.00
Toothpaste $1.00
Toothpaste $1.00
Toothpaste $1.00

= $4.00
-$1/1 coupon (not sure what insert as I purchased online)
Total: $.32 of tax

Transaction #4
 Toothpaste $1.00
Toothpaste $1.00
Toothpaste $1.00
Toothpaste $1.00

= $4.00
-$1/1 coupon (not sure what insert as I purchased online)
Total: $.32 of tax

Total tax paid: $1.60


Walmart:
Transaction #1
 Pasta (pm from Smith's) $.99 each x 30 = $29.70
Prego Sauce $1.88 each x 10 = $18.80
Classico Sauce $2.50 each x 2 =$5.00
Newman's Own Sauce $2.50 
Barilla Sauce (pm from Smith's) $1.79 each x 10  =$17.90

-ten $1/3 Barilla pasta coupons (not sure what insert as I purchased online)
-ten $.75/1 Barilla sauce coupons (not sure what insert as I purchased online)
-ten $.75/1 Prego sauce coupons
-$.75/2 Classico coupon 
-$.75/1 Newman's Own coupon

Total: $42.11 after tax

And now for my rant. 

I have been price matching at Walmart for the last five years. I have never had a problem. The morning of the day we go grocery shopping, I sit down with all of the ads to compare prices and make our list. Not only do I write down all of the prices we are matching and where they are from, but I also bring the ads with me even though the ad clearly states that you do not need to show the ads. 

I always make sure all of my prices are accurate. I know many people fudge the numbers or make up prices, but we never do! I am always 100% honest. That being said, yesterday was nothing new, I made our list the exact same way. 

When we got the register, the cashier said she needed to see all of the prices in the ads before she would ring anything up. Okay. No problem. Even though that is not required per the policy, I know they were all correct so no problem. 

The part that I had a problem with was when the cashier started interrogating me, implying that I was making the prices up. If I were making the prices up, why would I be able to show you them in the ads? She compared every single ad to every single item and even brought a manager over to verify everything. She made me feel like a criminal, and I did not appreciate my integrity being questions. 

She did find one error, that was completely ridiculous. I was price matching red delicious apples from Mariana's 4lbs for $1. I picked up a bag of red delicious apples. Apparently, in Walmart, they don't price match the red delicious apples but substitute the red gala apples.  I matched red delicious to red delicious, but the manager treated us like we were trying to pull a fast one on them! How were we supposed to know that they substitute a different kind of apples? Ok whatever. I sent Josh to get the correct ones. While he was gone, I told the lady to ring up the people behind us because they had been waiting. I stood there at the end of the register to wait for her. As soon as Josh came back, the cashier switched off her light and said "Sorry, I'm closed now." Really? How rude. 

I was so frustrated and upset. I don't like to be treated like I am lying especially when I have spent so much time trying to make sure that everything was correct. I'm not going to stop price matching. I'm not going to stop couponing. I'm going to continue to prove that although some people take advantage of the system, there are still some of us that are doing things correctly. 

So that is my little rant. Have you ever had issues in price matching?



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