Dan can do math in his head, which is a great skill these days when you’re checking out the n objects for x price! specials at Target. In this case, Dan notes that the “temporary price cut” is so temporary that it doesn’t even exist: you’ll pay 13 cents more per box if you buy three of them. This is the third Target “special” we’ve seen this month that screws the consumer. Are we seeing a new trend? Is it legal to call it a price cut if it’s not?
Update: here’s a better photo of the sign, as requested by EtoilePB:
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I often see Target “price cut” tags over their regular tags and guess what? They have exactly the same prices. That is just misleading, and wrong, wrong, wrong!
Target is garbage. They keep putting the burden on the customer with their crap. With their return policies, inability to have online items shipped to their stores, and now this, one can only surmise that they would like to be included in the next “worst company in America” contest.
@Stormslanding:
As said before, the Super Targets all have those tags, they aren’t clearance tags, they just show the unit price as well.
The General Mills cereals were all priced no higher than $2.69, (but, they were significantly smaller boxes than the Post cereals)
thats odd, it was just 4 for 7 last week.
Target’s registers only ring one-item pricing, so it will ring up the cheaper price. This store sells the cereal lower than most of the stores nationally because of the competition around it. Employees should have put up the Target sign that says: “Even Lower Than Our Advertised Price” and that prints with the new pricing.
If you’re a consumer that buys breakfast cereal, you can hardly beat the dollar store if you aren’t picky about brands. I’ve seen some quality items including raisin brans and other cereals for just $1.00 a box.
Too bad not everyone has a dollar store conveniently located to them. For some items, they rock.
Wow I must be bored I’m making a lot of comments tonight!
Regarding this issue, I would imagine there was a price increase on the cereal (gee, can you imagine that?), but the label was either not changed or was accidentally removed (or taken out)…Target never upcharges for multiple quantities – the sign says 3 for $8 …so if you buy one it is $2.67…if you buy 2 its $5.33. If you buy 3 its $8….its like that throughout the store….and sometimes they will round up the “x for $x” just to make it a round number…but you’ll still get the lower price….and sometimes you’ll see weird numbers like 2 for 5.97 which always baffles me a bit….oh well….