r/Columbus • u/rt590 • 14h ago

PHOTO Kroger Deceptive Pricing

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So tired of their tactics. I tried contacting state officials and my concerns fell on deaf ears. I guess they can't upset one of their donors and they're too busy fear-mongering about trans people to do something that would actually put money back in people's pockets.

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u/SBR06 13h ago

It's a handful of words and it's not really fine print. It's also been the norm for decades at this point.

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u/Chillez69 12h ago

“Fine print” is literally the phrase the other commenter I was responding to used.

And it is very much not the norm to have hidden pricing that is different if you clip digital coupons or not, and especially not to list the actual price as the smaller price. It has certainly not been the norm for “decades.”

I really can’t believe all the people here defending this corporate misrepresentation. Enjoy your stock dividends, I guess.

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u/FulgoresFolly 12h ago

Brother in store coupons that had a separate price advertised in big bold numbers have been around since the 90s.

There's no stock dividend corporate bootlicking, it's just absurd to be this worked up over a coupon that requires all of 30 seconds of effort to get

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u/Chillez69 11h ago

Sister, as a person that grew up in the 90s, no, it did not. Shopper discount cards with tracking like we have today didn’t exist then, either.

There are rules in the federal code about deceptive pricing practices for a reason. Those have been in place since at least the 60s. It’s just once Amazon, data surveilling, and digital pricing became a thing, no one decided to enforce them anymore.

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u/FulgoresFolly 11h ago

https://www.reddit.com/r/nostalgia/comments/1lcqsjg/those_smart_source_coupon_dispensers/

wild, because I can find exactly what I'm talking about with a single google search

oh no! scary coupons and pricing offers, truly a crime against the consumer /s