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The original was posted on /r/talesfromretail by /u/Wise-Pirate-4468 on 2024-06-01 04:55:34+00:00.
Edit - That should be ROGUE, not rouge. 😂
Many moons ago, when I worked in a retail in high school, one of the employees liked to put crazy, random prices on items to see how long it would take for someone to notice.
First you have to understand that this was a long time ago; no bar codes and scanning registers. We had old fashioned registers. You had to manually enter the price of each item listed on the little while adhesive price sticker that was put in the item with a pricing gun.
You would be concentrating on entering the prices and you wouldn’t always notice right away that the price didn’t match the item. If you were lucky, you caught the mistake before the customer.
I eventually became a victim of the price bandit. It was a can of Colgate shaving cream. He put price tags on all the cans for $16 and some change. The lady I was ringing up about had a heart attack! And I felt like an idiot for not realizing it was wrong as I entered the price.
I’m still surprised they never fired the guy for doing this.
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