Act now, the savings only lasts till June 1st.

You never know, the price could go up after June 1st.

This is better than those Target tags that showed the savings as -$.10 and such. In this economy, at least pricing are staying stagnant.

Leine for $10.99, even with a discount that would be expensive.

I used to work at Jewel as a cashier. we would find these every once in a while. usually the stock persons wouldn't notice them as they were put up.

I like the fact that my preferred card is still in the database to get discounts. 5% off regular band items and 15% off Jewel Branded Items. Cha-Ching! Now i am afraid of losing my only key tag preferred card.

@Fanboy1217: talk about slashing prices. it's a pain if i have to use the self checkouts because i ring my items up fast and the computer is still trying to catch up with all of the employee discounts. it gets embarrassing when i am standing there and the machine is spouting off different discounts. it makes it seems like i hacked the machine.

@Fanboy1217: I worked through high school and college as a cashier/bookkeeper/frontend manager at Albertson's. Our assistant store director would print stuff like this all the time, from not paying attention. He was a bit off though. Our favorites were when he entered the decimals in the wrong places and instead of the 10/$10 sales they would read 10/$1000 or something. Then you get those dumbass customers who get angry and in your face about how that's a ridiculous price and they're never shopping here again, blah blah, all the while you're trying to explain we're not charging $100 for a single box of mac and cheese or whatever.

man just thinking back on those days makes my blood boil. I loved the people I worked with and the regular customers, but the 10% that had issues or who were assholes, I wished so badly I could punch them all in the face. Man I have some stories, good lord. I'm so glad I'm out of retail. *shudder*

I always thought it was fun using my Albertsons card at Jewel or my Jewel card at Albertsons. Either way, the cashier gets a big kick out of it.

It was a big relief that I didn't have to squint at the smaller price. But act fast, because that 0.00 savings is only good until June!

@downwithmonstercable:

Our assistant store director would print stuff like this all the time, from not paying attention.

That's all this is, probably. Somebody who didn't know what they were doing printed some tags and used the wrong stock. All that info is in the database and the tag template just tries to fill in all the blanks. And then, hey, the price isn't wrong so why bother to reprint a tag?

I was lucky because my SD's wife had been a scan coordinator so he had a clue about what we did -- and better yet, stayed out of our hair. Most SDs think the pricing fairies come out at night and magically change the shelf tags.

"Big Relief" made me giggle more than was appropriate.

@veg-o-matic: Yeah--just WHO was getting that Big Relief over the $0.00 savings, anyway?

But did they keep the portion size the same?

"Secretly turning into Failblog" is my favorite tag ever. Just FYI.

I use my Petsmart card and it works just the same... although sometimes cashiers look at me like I'm crazy.

As a former Albertsons scan coordinator, I have the following observation:

This tag was manually printed, it did not come from corporate.
This means that either someone was printing tags and only had the Bonus Buy tags with them so they just printed this tag
OR
that the item's price was manually changed to be a Bonus Buy but then no one changed it back when the automated price changes came so the database says it's on sale and needs a Bonus Buy tag, but the price isn't a sale price.

@The Queen of Everything: I really should try to remember to read the post tags more often. Heh.

@Saboth: Gotta watch out about those types of tags. When I see that, it ussually means that once the "sale" is over, inflation kicks in and the price rises.

@djdonovan: Yup... to $10.99...

@downwithmonstercable: Roger that.

I would argue with the 10% number, though. I was in grocery retail for over a decade (much of it as a manager), and the number of problem customers is much closer to 5%. Here's how it broke down (as best I could tell) out of every 100 customers:

85 wanted their items, got them, and wanted out fast.
10 were cordial enough to get to know you.
2 were argumentative, thinking they could get better deals by complaining about things (what you described).
1 was a coupon queen, who would back up whatever line she (they were always she) was in.
1 would steal laxatives (about $50 a week; we caught her eventually...)
And the last 1 would eat stuff (or let her kids do it) as she shopped, leaving the wrappers in the aisles, because "you're making enough money off of me as it is."

Thinking back on it, I don't know whether to "brrr" or "grrr"...

@trujunglist: To break the hearts of the marketing gurus who came up with loyalty cards...

MOST loyalty cards have a 10 digit customer number + 2 check digits along with a upc barcode printed on the back. Warning: blinding flash of the obvious ahead: They will work with nearly all other stores with similar cards.

Two reasons for this:
1. Loyalty dept doesn't want to cost their company sales.
2. The cards are glued onto their application forms, so you can use them immediately, without registering the card.

This is why I tell people who worry about privacy to just take one from a store that is more lax about issuing the applications. Example: In my area, Kroger cards work at Speedway gas stations and vice-versa. Both also work at CVS (though you won't get their phony-baloney "Extra Bucks" that way).

Try it. You'll be surprised just how often it works...

@eelmonger: Albertson's != Jewel

I'm calling BS on the whole thing in general. They "price cut" stuff that would just normally be marked down with the Jewel Card.

@lannister80: Also, the manually applied "Big Relief Price Cut" stickers on the beer. I guess they needed three of the exact same non-attention-grabbing stickers for a non-existent sale because they figured two wouldn't be pissing off Mother Nature enough.

@PencilSharp: God, I'd want to slap that last one in the face. I mean, ban her from the store. And her children. And her children's children. For 3 months. [/simpsons]

No big fan of the coupon queen, but it's the company's fault for having coupons at all. I guess they do it because then richer people won't bother with them (more money), and it helps convince poorer\cheaper people to come to the store (more customers providing some money). But then the coupons end up slowing down lines, wasting the time of the queen cutting all these coupons, other customers, and cashiers.

I wish grocery stores would cut the BS and have a 'no coupons' policy and give fair prices to everyone, whether or not they want to spend their time dicking around with coupons. There's an ad campaign that would actually catch my eye.

Jewel's announced price cuts were supposed to be on basic items like pasta, peanut butter, etc. Leinie's Honey Weiss, being beer, isn't part of those price cuts. Leinie's Honey Weiss also isn't worth $10.99 since it tastes pretty terrible. Go with their Original or Red Lager instead.

It's BEER! what do you expect? lame attempt at being a joke or cynical.

I used to stock the frozen isles at a grocery store. You know those tiny Banquet brand meals? Regular retail, they were one dollar. Every few weeks they'd go on sale - 10 for 10. Funny thing was, the shelf got DEMOLISHED every time.

This makes me feel humiliated..

@headcase: Someone already does that. Aldi's.

@lannister80: Albertson's == Jewel == Shop 'n Save == Cub Foods == SuperValu

[www.supervalu.com]

I know I'm relieved!