Do you check your supermarket bills?

Do you check your supermarket bills?

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garreth64

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663 posts

222 months

Wednesday 7th October 2015
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We went to the local supermarket tonight for a few items, and picked up a piece of Salmon at half price for £5.68. Went through the self scan, the OH scanned and I packed.

Checking the bill afterwards, the salmon had registered as £7.47 (which was the per kg price), and not only that, it had gone through twice so we had been charged two lots of £7.47.

Went back to customer service and they agreed it was wrong, but they had trouble refunding as it would scan as £7.47 but would only refund £5.68 Eventually they scanned a packed of mints and refunded us £9.30 manually!

I do normally watch items go through and give the bill a quick scan, but I think I will be more thorough from now on if they can make mistakes that are this large.


Gaz3376

131 posts

110 months

Thursday 8th October 2015
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Just last night in Sainsburys I was charged full price for a jar of Hellmans mayo that was reduced to £1 from £2.70 ish. I only realised as i didnt have enough cash to pay, as part of a big shop it wouldnt have been noticed.

DocJock

8,360 posts

241 months

Thursday 8th October 2015
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My missus religiously checks them.

Occasionally she will find a discrepancy and then say "Oh, it's not worth queueing at customer services for 13p". confused

prand

5,916 posts

197 months

Thursday 8th October 2015
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Not much - my issue is that I regularly get stopped for a rescan (when I do a self scan shop), which means it's all got to be done and repacked all over again. And it's always spot on. Grrr.


grumbledoak

31,553 posts

234 months

Thursday 8th October 2015
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I do check if I have bought any special offers/discounts. I cannot remember the last mistake.

Mobile Chicane

20,848 posts

213 months

Thursday 8th October 2015
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Works both ways.

A few years ago now, there was clearly some mistake at my local Asda when a half-bottle of champagne which should have scanned at £13.50, scanned at £5.00.

I 'might' have gone back for a few more.

Rutter

2,070 posts

207 months

Friday 9th October 2015
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Checked mine the other week as the scales had played up and we were charged £36 odd for a piece of broccoli, the girl on the till was adamant that was the correct price and weight for a head of broccoli.

Shaw Tarse

31,544 posts

204 months

Friday 9th October 2015
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Do Tesco still do the double refund on goods priced incorrectly?

Motorrad

6,811 posts

188 months

Saturday 10th October 2015
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Every single time and if there's a mistake in my favour I'll go and tell them about that as well.

soad

32,917 posts

177 months

Saturday 10th October 2015
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Never. wink
(Butler does the shopping).

stuartmmcfc

8,665 posts

193 months

Saturday 10th October 2015
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every single time I go to Morrisons (weekly) there's someone querying their bill at Customer services.
I don't bother cos I'm rolling ion money smile

13aines

2,153 posts

150 months

Sunday 11th October 2015
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Shaw Tarse said:
Do Tesco still do the double refund on goods priced incorrectly?
I think so, it's named double the difference, but my missus wasn't given it for a pricing error recently. Perhaps you have to remind them although you shouldn't have to!

jinkster

2,250 posts

157 months

Monday 12th October 2015
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Having spent around £70 on just random supermarket visit to buy nothing we need. Switched to internet supermarket shopping with Ocado. Good quality food and saved a fortune since as we buy what we need rather than what we see.