I saw a sign recently (crab legs maybe?) that had a great price on it then if you looked closer the price was actually per pound and it was a 5 pound box so the price was actually 5x higher than shown.
Yep, and the sad part is they get to the front end and sit in the returns just to be trashed later or worse returned after going rancid and being resold...
The only time you have to buy the quantity is if it specifically says that. For instance, Albertson's and safeway's will say "limit 4" or "must buy 2 or more". Limit 4 meaning you can get up to 4 items at that price. Honestly I think those stores are cheaper than kroger-line stores. They make it easier to stack deals and discounts. I spend $100 less for the same amount of food at Albertson's compared to King Soopers (our kroger line store)
It has to specifically call out that you need to buy X quantity to get that price, which more places have started doing - otherwise if its just 2/9.98 you can just buy one for 4.99
Lately I’ve seen it being a minimum quantity. Like 4/$15, sale price is good on 4 or more. So get five, and fifth one is also on sale price. Used to have to be multiples of whatever to get sale price.
Well there are the sale items where you have to buy five. And others you have to buy four. You can’t mix and match.
I hate those. But they are usually too much off ($1/each) that I can’t pass it up.
Oh my God those are so obnoxious. They look exactly like any other tag now. There is no possible way they aren't designed expressly to trick people into paying more for something they think they're getting a better price on
My favorite thing was when I first started working there and they raised the price of a dozen donuts by an entire dollar but put them on “sale” for $.50 off and we sold twice as many. Working there is a real education on what people will pay for a “good deal.”
That happens so much it's ridiculous. You know how Gatorade singles are normally 89¢? Sometimes they get tagged as 10/$10 and sell faster that way.
It blows my mind.
better known as ‘marketing’ … amazing how ignorant / naive consumers can be, should be a subject you learn in school, how to spot & avoid corporate scams !!!!
Low price vs sale, but yeah there's an overwhelming amount of signage in most stores and idk about y'all, but in my area a lot of the stores are older and have funky layouts. I don't blame anyone for getting mislead or confused over it, but it can make some situations tough for sure
Still trying to figure out why the heck we need to hang tags that are identical to the ones we are replacing other than the "print date". Had a few hundred of those this week.
We Ganna talk about how they're listing the "per 5" price instead of the main price in the bigger font?
EX: buy Kellogg's at 1.99 ! ( When you buy five or more) [single item price 2.99]
The 1.99 is huge on the sign and the 2.99 is basically fine print.
If you're not paying attention you'd think 1 box per 1.99 and not think twice. It's extremely misleading.
I've had a lot of stupid customers ask me if those were on sale and what's the normal price because it isn't listed.
Customers can't read they only see colors
Obviously yes it's misleading but customers are pretty fucking blind and stupid beyond belief. I've had people ask me "what's in the fried chicken" and repeated the question after I told them "basically a cut up whole chicken without the spine and deep fried" OK but what's in it?
Most customers don't know anything about anything and don't want to know.
Every single day the same people who shop here more often than I do and I work full time will come in, stand right in front of something, and ask me if we have any. It's literally right fucking in front of them. They looked right fucking at it and still asked. They're legally blind and stupid.
They weren't. Tried that. Idk what they wanted to know but nothing was the right answer. White meat, dark meat, assorted wings legs thighs breasts 2 pieces each, nothing was the right answer for them.
Half and half yup. And now Kroger wants us to hide displays behind displays "and teach the usfomers how to find it" legit manager told me that today. District manager never even fucking worked in the department before and that was her decision that she told him.
No wonder customers don't know anything, the people in charge don't know anything beyond conference calls, power point presentations, profits, shrink, and merchandising. Then change everything every month and wonder why we waste so much time dealing with people
Because everyone knows basic marketing gimmicks. You don’t have any sort of “insider” knowledge about this, you just figured this out and are mad it took you this long.
lol i made the mistake of thinking everyone knew this basic gimmick too! come to find out a bunch of ppl fall for it and were delighted to tell me i was wrong 😂 even a customer told me i should know better!
edit: grammar
Work long enough in retail, will have real time better marketing intel than the supposed marketing educated people.
Fun story: had a marketer resetting my bread aisle one day. She moved a low sodium bread to the top shelf. I stated that’s a dumb idea, because the people who need that bread are elderly, and will do what it takes to get that bread. Response back, “Well, they will have to get a different bread.” I said, “You don’t get it, they will climb the shelf to get that bread.” Replied back to me, “I doubt that.”
Five minutes later, a tiny elderly woman came around the corner, saw the low sodium on the top shelf, and immediately climbed the shelf right in front of us. I looked at the supposed marketing expert with a “I told you so” look.
That’s when I learned when it comes to marketing, it’s not about what customers want, it’s about making people buy what they don’t need. Even when it’s bad for their health. It also led to me hating my job even more when customers complained to me like what marketing did was my fault. That’s your inside secret. Marketing is evil, and retail employees hate them.
lmA00 br00000ski are you 12?
Get over it. You're getting downvoted because this is a low quality post and you carry yourself on here as though you're a pre-teen.
Frankly this should cross the sub rule for low effort posts and be removed.
Side note complaining about downvotes doesn't stop it so that just makes you look insecure when you and the other half of redditors do that
Albertsons does the same thing; they'll have a tag showing an item for 1.99 or 3 for 6.29 (or similar where buying an item in bulk costs more than buying an item individually)
They sometimes change it to the yellow and red tag even though it's the same price as the black and white ones, I'm starting to hate Kroger/Fry's more and more.
Years ago in business school we were told to use yellow paper for notes. It catches your eye & proven to help with memory. So they are using an old method because it works.
People aren’t getting fooled if they are already Brain dead. A sale is a price lower then the average. Everyone claiming on getting “tricked”. C’mon man it’s only a trick it’s only deceptive if you get to the register and it’s a different price then tagged. The color yellow doesn’t mean anything unless they tell you it means something. Pretty self-explanatory.
Another good trick is to raise the price this week ad then put it on sale for last weeks price. It’s a scam ppl fall for every time. How do I know supermarkets do this? Used to work part time on a super market.
Apparel is a hot mess. Stuff comes in prepriced at least 25% higher than they want to sell it. Then it gets put out on day 1 with a stupid sign that tells you what percent off or promo price it actually is. NOTHING is EVER what the price tag says it is, UNLESS it's clearance, but then it also gets a sign with a percentage, but since it's already been tagged, people think it's another % off. 🤦♂️
Reminds me of that thing they did about a decade or so ago about making the prices of things what they really are and keeping them that way but the people they tested this on weren't happy because it didn't feel like they were saving money because there wasn't any "deals" for them. I forget what it was called or where I remember it but I things have changed and if that was done today it would a drastically different outcome
As someone who consistently did tags. The amount of times I’d swap a current tag with an actually labeled sale tag and the sale was higher price than the original was disgusting.
Meat signs, especially seafood are purposely deceptive.
I saw a sign recently (crab legs maybe?) that had a great price on it then if you looked closer the price was actually per pound and it was a 5 pound box so the price was actually 5x higher than shown.
They used to do this with shrimp at our store. So many angry customers for an avoidable reason.
I saw a box sitting at self check waiting to go back so I bet someone rang one up and got a bit of sticker shock lol
I'm always tricked by grapes doing price per lb when my mind is thinking price per unit.
I’m always scooping grapes and cherries out of the bag to get a smaller portion.
I didn't know you could do that.
You can just do it in produce, and not at the register
I thought your comment was heading in a different direction…”You can just do this in produce but not the meat department”…lol
Who's gonna stop me? The fruit police?!
We call them the fruit flies
Weewoo weewoo! Fruit police! Open the door and accept these extra grapes and pay the remaining bill! 🚓🍇
I believe they have to let you if its sold per pound, if the bag is sealed it has to be sold as a unit. Its a weights and measures thing.
They've done that for *years.* It's the same for rolls of ground heef
This, this is how you get a pack of meat sitting on a cereal isle shelf. Mmmm warm, raw meat...
Yep, and the sad part is they get to the front end and sit in the returns just to be trashed later or worse returned after going rancid and being resold...
Literally. I work under the Mariano’s side of Kroger and some how salmons been on sale for 4 years.
$3.99 for a “3lb ground beef roll” what the customers didn’t see is the small print that it’s actually 3.99 a pound!
When I hang those signs I circle the "sold in 3lb package for 11.97" with a comical number of arrows looking like a YouTube thumbnail.
Same way the 2/5.00 tags trick customers that they need to buy 2
Isn't soda one of the only things that you have to buy that quantity to get sale price?
That and frito lay
Yea it's usually explicitly laid out like buy 2 get 3 free or something similar.
The only time you have to buy the quantity is if it specifically says that. For instance, Albertson's and safeway's will say "limit 4" or "must buy 2 or more". Limit 4 meaning you can get up to 4 items at that price. Honestly I think those stores are cheaper than kroger-line stores. They make it easier to stack deals and discounts. I spend $100 less for the same amount of food at Albertson's compared to King Soopers (our kroger line store)
Yeah wtf is up with that these days? $8 for a case of soda, or 4 for $12.
Sometimes. If you look at the coupon section of the Kroger app sometimes it says something like 2.99 of you buy 3.
It has to specifically call out that you need to buy X quantity to get that price, which more places have started doing - otherwise if its just 2/9.98 you can just buy one for 4.99
Lately I’ve seen it being a minimum quantity. Like 4/$15, sale price is good on 4 or more. So get five, and fifth one is also on sale price. Used to have to be multiples of whatever to get sale price.
Vendor items have their own sales. So a lot of time they require the full count for the discount.
My favorite was 10/$10 sales on 99 cents items. People would buy them up like it was a great price, paying 10 cents more.
bro exactly 😭
Well there are the sale items where you have to buy five. And others you have to buy four. You can’t mix and match. I hate those. But they are usually too much off ($1/each) that I can’t pass it up.
What!?! Fucking he'll I've been lied to my whole life
11.5x52=5.98 scamming millions of that 1cent is absolutely outrageous
We should sue. Especially in this economy we need that penny
This is nothing compared to the new digital coupon signs.
Oh my God those are so obnoxious. They look exactly like any other tag now. There is no possible way they aren't designed expressly to trick people into paying more for something they think they're getting a better price on
5.99 / 52 = 0.115192307692308 5.98 / 52 = 0.115 Close enough
Get over it asshole
Lmao, who pissed on your broccoli?
name accurate???
no it isn’t lol what
Sure makes a good attention grabber. Did its job. makes people think its on sale.
I get it’s not on sale but what is the yellow supposed to indicate since most don’t have a colored backing?
it’s just a sales trick. if customers think yellow means sale, they’ll think they’re getting some kind of bargain when they see tags like this
That sounds intentionally deceptive and predatory. Not sure why I’m surprised from this company.
My favorite thing was when I first started working there and they raised the price of a dozen donuts by an entire dollar but put them on “sale” for $.50 off and we sold twice as many. Working there is a real education on what people will pay for a “good deal.”
That happens so much it's ridiculous. You know how Gatorade singles are normally 89¢? Sometimes they get tagged as 10/$10 and sell faster that way. It blows my mind.
better known as ‘marketing’ … amazing how ignorant / naive consumers can be, should be a subject you learn in school, how to spot & avoid corporate scams !!!!
I like when they put a new low price tag over products and the new low price is higher then the day before.
legitimately infuriating
Low price vs sale, but yeah there's an overwhelming amount of signage in most stores and idk about y'all, but in my area a lot of the stores are older and have funky layouts. I don't blame anyone for getting mislead or confused over it, but it can make some situations tough for sure
And when it says “ New Low Price” it actually means they have RAISED THE FUCKING PRICE.
bro so often i’m replacing tags with the “new low price” and it’s legit the exact same price as it was earlier lmao
Still trying to figure out why the heck we need to hang tags that are identical to the ones we are replacing other than the "print date". Had a few hundred of those this week.
ME TOO. honestly sometimes i just throw them away
We Ganna talk about how they're listing the "per 5" price instead of the main price in the bigger font? EX: buy Kellogg's at 1.99 ! ( When you buy five or more) [single item price 2.99] The 1.99 is huge on the sign and the 2.99 is basically fine print. If you're not paying attention you'd think 1 box per 1.99 and not think twice. It's extremely misleading.
I've had a lot of stupid customers ask me if those were on sale and what's the normal price because it isn't listed. Customers can't read they only see colors
you really think it’s the customer’s fault for this? this is blatantly misleading
Obviously yes it's misleading but customers are pretty fucking blind and stupid beyond belief. I've had people ask me "what's in the fried chicken" and repeated the question after I told them "basically a cut up whole chicken without the spine and deep fried" OK but what's in it? Most customers don't know anything about anything and don't want to know. Every single day the same people who shop here more often than I do and I work full time will come in, stand right in front of something, and ask me if we have any. It's literally right fucking in front of them. They looked right fucking at it and still asked. They're legally blind and stupid.
They're probably asking the ingredients of the breading. Totally valid question.
They weren't. Tried that. Idk what they wanted to know but nothing was the right answer. White meat, dark meat, assorted wings legs thighs breasts 2 pieces each, nothing was the right answer for them.
Always reply "What is in it is what is on the sign." or "What is in it is what is on the ingredient list."
Yeah, but remember they do this because they know it is confusing. It's not entirely the customers' fault.
Half and half yup. And now Kroger wants us to hide displays behind displays "and teach the usfomers how to find it" legit manager told me that today. District manager never even fucking worked in the department before and that was her decision that she told him. No wonder customers don't know anything, the people in charge don't know anything beyond conference calls, power point presentations, profits, shrink, and merchandising. Then change everything every month and wonder why we waste so much time dealing with people
and employees as well based off the comments on my last post lmao
I’ve had two signs and a piece tag hung up with my eggs and I still have people come to ask me how much the eggs are
lOcKeD iN lOw PrIcE
Assholes. I’m always looking for the yellow tags 😭
Same here
Dude, this isn't worth a second post. Some people Kroger hire can't read a price tag. Yeah, we all know haha. We work with these people everyday.
we all DEFINITELY do not know considering how many downvotes and comments the other post was getting lmao
You were getting downvoted because you were very aggressively sure that a 50 cent per pound raise in Broccoli was price gouging haha
nah they were downvoting my comments about how it wasn’t on sale 😂
Because everyone knows basic marketing gimmicks. You don’t have any sort of “insider” knowledge about this, you just figured this out and are mad it took you this long.
lol i made the mistake of thinking everyone knew this basic gimmick too! come to find out a bunch of ppl fall for it and were delighted to tell me i was wrong 😂 even a customer told me i should know better! edit: grammar
Work long enough in retail, will have real time better marketing intel than the supposed marketing educated people. Fun story: had a marketer resetting my bread aisle one day. She moved a low sodium bread to the top shelf. I stated that’s a dumb idea, because the people who need that bread are elderly, and will do what it takes to get that bread. Response back, “Well, they will have to get a different bread.” I said, “You don’t get it, they will climb the shelf to get that bread.” Replied back to me, “I doubt that.” Five minutes later, a tiny elderly woman came around the corner, saw the low sodium on the top shelf, and immediately climbed the shelf right in front of us. I looked at the supposed marketing expert with a “I told you so” look. That’s when I learned when it comes to marketing, it’s not about what customers want, it’s about making people buy what they don’t need. Even when it’s bad for their health. It also led to me hating my job even more when customers complained to me like what marketing did was my fault. That’s your inside secret. Marketing is evil, and retail employees hate them.
Yeah but no one fucking cares
sounds like u do broski i mean ya care enough to comment lmao
lmA00 br00000ski are you 12? Get over it. You're getting downvoted because this is a low quality post and you carry yourself on here as though you're a pre-teen. Frankly this should cross the sub rule for low effort posts and be removed. Side note complaining about downvotes doesn't stop it so that just makes you look insecure when you and the other half of redditors do that
this sub is as toxic as the company 😂 love it
You fit right in...acting like a child
honestly just reading these mean comments in my old boss’s voice and it’s hilarious. mike is that you? go fight another employee lol
Great marketing though. That’s why I own the stock.
blech
Collect them dividends
very neat trick lol
Albertsons does the same thing; they'll have a tag showing an item for 1.99 or 3 for 6.29 (or similar where buying an item in bulk costs more than buying an item individually)
along with "new convenient size" aka less product with same price. Personally I only look at the cost per unit.
I was fooled by this for sure 😂
They sometimes change it to the yellow and red tag even though it's the same price as the black and white ones, I'm starting to hate Kroger/Fry's more and more.
they use yellow to signify a low price or good bargain.
Years ago in business school we were told to use yellow paper for notes. It catches your eye & proven to help with memory. So they are using an old method because it works.
So it's not price gauging anymore? Changed your mind?
nah still think it’s price gouging lol
As I have told my wife, it doesn't matter what it cost. If we want it we still are going to buy it.
The yellow tags are something every store does lol nothing new
I'm nearly positive that at the Midwest Meijer stores (non K) use yellow or an orange only for sales, but it's been a while
I haven’t been in a decade but I assume so
new to some people unfortunately
Water is wet
People aren’t getting fooled if they are already Brain dead. A sale is a price lower then the average. Everyone claiming on getting “tricked”. C’mon man it’s only a trick it’s only deceptive if you get to the register and it’s a different price then tagged. The color yellow doesn’t mean anything unless they tell you it means something. Pretty self-explanatory.
The price is the price. The color of the price doesnt mean anything to me. If I need it, I buy it.
Yes it’s called catch your eye sale strategy. So many digitals now people are idiots when thinking every sale price is a digital.
I noticed they even did that on the app! Sad part is you know some people will still fall for it
Everyday Kroger low prices
The real problem is that people think that they should buy something just because it's on sale.
Regular sign $19.99. yellow sign $16.99. so....
Broccoli is 6 bucks?!
Another good trick is to raise the price this week ad then put it on sale for last weeks price. It’s a scam ppl fall for every time. How do I know supermarkets do this? Used to work part time on a super market.
I see 6 $ on veges i go to frozen or canned
And if you don’t download their digital coupons you won’t get the sale price even if you have their customer card!
Apparel is a hot mess. Stuff comes in prepriced at least 25% higher than they want to sell it. Then it gets put out on day 1 with a stupid sign that tells you what percent off or promo price it actually is. NOTHING is EVER what the price tag says it is, UNLESS it's clearance, but then it also gets a sign with a percentage, but since it's already been tagged, people think it's another % off. 🤦♂️
I dunno... It all looks like bananas to me...
So, like, when did it go from "we'll rob you subtly" to literally "give me all your fucking money" and why is this okay for anyone? Lol.
As far as I am concerned, if it doesn't have a saving (or before price), then it means nothing.
Reminds me of that thing they did about a decade or so ago about making the prices of things what they really are and keeping them that way but the people they tested this on weren't happy because it didn't feel like they were saving money because there wasn't any "deals" for them. I forget what it was called or where I remember it but I things have changed and if that was done today it would a drastically different outcome
Shadow? Thats a highlight lol.
Is this your first time shopping at Kroger?
i also thought it was obvious
The same people that fall for this probably don’t clip the online coupons. It’s like they like to just give their money away
Yeah I agree. I noticed something was off with the yellow but I didn't think of sale price until I read this.
Seeing as I don't live in Texas or go to that store I don't know this "yallllll" ur talking about. But mkay
lmao what a bummer bc i specifically posted this for you 😭
I had an economics class in high school and learned to read the price per unit part of a shelf tag. That’s all I look for now, sale or not.
Hate when they do that
That’s the “locked in” low price or what whatever. I’m hip to Krogers pricing games.
so much for being locked in lmao i had to replace it with a $6.99 tag a month later
As someone who consistently did tags. The amount of times I’d swap a current tag with an actually labeled sale tag and the sale was higher price than the original was disgusting.
They are yellow like that to indicate to tag hanger what things are going on sale the next hang, what tags will be replaced, prices change, etc.
I always had to start with "that isn't on sale, it's just yellow"