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Once again supermarkets are found to be falsifying prices- why do they cheat their own customers?

What happened to honest trading?

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  • ?
    Lv 6
    9 years ago
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    people are lazy and careless when shopping. they allow themselves to be cheated by not checking prices.

  • 9 years ago

    ......and 'will again' in the future - because the customers are seen as uninformed 'retail suckers'.!!.

    What is it the public 'don't understand about supermarket price control' ? These supermarkets have our governments (any party) in there 'lobbying pockets' (millions spent) and 'they' will always mislead/manipulate there customers as 'they wish'....the excuses given ie: mistakes were made in pricing labels etc - is used 'all the time' when these retail carpetbaggers are caught out....every single time.

    Until people 'stop using supermarkets' (and thats not going to happen) we are 'all' open time and time again to these fraudulent policies these retail supermarkets (in any retail section) operate.

    Someone - somewhere at some company monthly meeting 'made a conscious decision' as to these fraudulent policies 'and it was agreed' at that/these meetings (wherever) too misrepresent the pricing within there stores.

    2 days from now - and this latest 'fraud' will be forgotten and become not even a memory - because these supermarkets 'are right'....75% of shoppers are a 'retail public sucker buying market' ....too be exploited all the time.

  • 9 years ago

    My family and I were having a similar conversation couple of days ago. I really can't get into all the details about the weird things I see done by some supermarkets here in South Florida. But it would probably be a good idea to post it here on Yahoo, explaining who is doing what and where!!!

  • Anonymous
    9 years ago

    Bottom Line.

    Profit.

    How,and from whom,doesn't really matter.

    There are plenty of mugs to go round.

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  • 9 years ago

    Capitalism

  • Anonymous
    9 years ago

    Because they know they will get away with it, selling to UK consumers is "like shooting rats in a barrel", they will (and do) pay anything for assorted Chinese garbage, products with huge mark ups, rotten fruit and veg and rarely complain.

    They get what they deserve!

  • 9 years ago

    Because most of their customers are to stupid/lazy to know & they have closed down all the competition

  • Jm.b
    Lv 6
    9 years ago

    Greed and profit. Nothing else.

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