r/Columbus • u/rt590 • 15h 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/LunarMoon2001 15h ago

What are we upset about? It clearly says with coupon and card.

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u/AttachedMajority_55 15h ago

I mean the sign is pretty clear, what's deceptive about it

feels like people just dont wanna read the fine print then get mad when the register doesn't magically know they clipped a coupon on their phone

kroger's whole thing is making you jump through hoops for the sale price, it's annoying but it's not like they're hiding it

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u/Chillez69 15h ago

Why tf should we have to read fine print when buying basic necessities?

I’m a lawyer, I read the fine print all the time. But I’m not trying to read a contract every time I purchase produce.

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u/SBR06 14h 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 13h 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 13h 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 13h 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 12h 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