Put Your Make-Up On!

Now to my understanding there are quite a few people who are avid couponers as a means for saving money, which is a good thing to do especially if you are on a budget! There are more coupons and deals in the United States than there are in Canada so that means less opportunity for me.
So with that being said when I do get to go shopping I have the tendency to gravitate towards the sales items (lol) :) .
When you are going for the sales it is always a good idea to make a mental note or even carry a piece of paper around with you to write it down if you have a bad memory or also if you are planning on having a huge shopping cart such as groceries.
Once you get to the checkout, make sure to ask the cashier if the price is what it should be! This is a very crucial step, if you don't ask it may be scanning in as the regular price, which is not what the sign said!

I was in WalMart today shopping around and had to buy hair dye. Of course I was looking for the cheapest best quality box there was.  There was a sign up that said "2 for $18" and nothing else. I thought well maybe if that is the right price it sounds like a pretty good deal, and if it isn't then I will just not bother and shop around for cheaper dye.  So I grabbed 2 and took them up to the checkout.  Of course it rung in full price, in which case I told the cashier that there was a sign saying it was this price, he had just suggested me to go to customer service so I told him I would.  After buying all of the other stuff I got I walked right back up to the hairdye and asked for an associate to check for me. She seen the sale but it was still ringing up full price on her gun and nothing about a sale.  So I told her that I would go to customer service and if I could use her name as a reference, and she replied very positively about that! <Good customer service.
I went to customer service, I told her that an employee had already seen it with me but I had no objection of walking back down there with her so that is what we did.  It turns out that the signs were up there and it was the product that I had picked up!



Now for the conclusion of my story, most stores and business have this thing called "code of conduct" that when you find a product with the wrong price on it you typically get the product free or at an extremely discounted price!  Seriously, how cool is that? It varies between stores so just be weary of that it isn't the same at every place!

With this circumstance I had gotten the first product free!  And the second at the discounted price that it should have been.

Because I had picked that out and had that little bit of extra patience with the employees I had got 2 full sized L'oreal hair dyes for a little over $5 each! How cool is that? Not to mention it is much better than couponing!  It pays to know these things, and also I can't stress this enough, look at your receipts! Human error is real and a thing!

Now, another example of a company which practices the "code of conduct" is Burger King.  Going through the drive-thru one evening and the small smoothies had the wrong price, they had given them to us free of charge!

The reason companies have this policy is because in the long run, I am saving them money by bringing the signs to their attention. Other customers may come along and want the discounted price as well, or if they know that it is not priced correctly they could take the entire stock and get it for free!