Rants or Raves about anything - Let it out!

[BarnyardChaos]

What's bugging you today, or what do you want to crow about - and need to shout it out to the world? Let's hear it!

 

[BarnyardChaos]

I'll start! Today I'm all grumpy about how the grocery stores (or any store, really!) are snookering us out of money without even realizing how we're being sucked into their little games.

I want to buy Pepsi. My local mega-store advertises 12-pack bottles for $5.98. The same size bottle in a 6-pack is $5.48. Of course, I *always* order the 12-pack in my online/store pick-up order, but only 1 time out of 20 do they have it available. Come check-out time, they want to substitute the 6-packs. Inside the store, same story - 12-pack label on the shelf, but no inventory. This has been the pattern for the past year. WHY??? They use the 12-pack as a lure, to get you to pay extra for the smaller package, to increase the profit.

Another example this morning is kitty litter. My mega-store carries their own brand of crystal/silica-based cat litter (love the stuff! I'll never use clay again) at about half the price of any other pet store or online source I can find. They've carried it for months, typically filling an entire endcap. Oh but today, no inventory. The endcap is gone. It's still online available for shipping. Did I mention they want you to sign up for their membership plan, at $$/year, so you can get "free" shipping? Anywhere else on the internet, pet stores, Amazon, etc. carry the same type of product at about double the cost. What a ruse!

Rant over, for the moment. I'm still fuming.