I have a gift card for Myer and I want to use it to buy a cologne.
Chemist warehouse has it for ~10% cheaper but the person in Myer Sydney George says they do not honour Chemist Warehouse price match.
Do you think if I go to another store it would work or is it a company wide policy?
company wide policy
Myer Cologne Does not Price Match Chemist Warehouse?
I had no idea they had a store in Cologne. Do they have one in Frankfurt?
Try and go in during a slow day. Back in the day had two mates in Myer electronic section and was told they had a certain quota to sell per hour.
Though that being said considering I can never find a bloody salesperson in the place to bloody take my money maybe Myer and DJ have just given up and happy to just bleed out with a slow death.
My local chemist warehouse leaves all their perfumes on a shelf next to a window, where the sun bakes them every day. I thought maybe they were just display models, but no it's a lockable glass cabinet they store inventory on and show the bottle on the top shelf. The printing on the boxes is visibly fading on most of them because they been in there so long. Chemist Warehouse don't even hire real pharmacists, why would they hire anyone who gives a damn about perfume. I wouldn't want to price match them either if I were Myer.
Chemist Warehouse don't even hire real pharmacists
You mean..to work the pharmacy area or you mean to staff the retail perfume aisles?
Well they are pharmacists on paper, but they will sell homeopathic stuff in their stores. So I'm sure they can be trusted to mix drugs and stuff for you, but they are more shopkeeper than medical health professional.
Pharmacy is a job that could be realistically automated.
They literally type the meds into a computer and computer either says 'Yes' the mix of med's is ok. Or 'No' there is a contradiction.
A lot of arrogant pharmacists like to think they are doctors. Scum profession.
@Lichen6420: This is why pharmacists then talk to you, the human, and ask searching questions to check to see if you're on other treatments or there's a risk of a reaction. (The good ones anyway).
I'll agree they're not doctors but if "think you're a doctor" makes you scum then I guess dentists are scum as well? Seems a bit trash mentality to have about a whole profession. You think people become pharmacists because they secretly want I'm-a-fake-doctor power-trips?
@Crow K: Dentists kind of are doctors, but only of the mouth. They split off from real medicine and started their own racket.
@AustriaBargain: Sure, and mechanics are kind of doctors, but only of cars, I guess. Metaphors aren't really helpful here for 'who is and isn't a doctor' discussions.
@Crow K: Sure but if you had jaw cancer and needed all your teeth extracted, would you go to a mechanic to get it done?
@AustriaBargain: Oh, it's the irrelevant questions round.
I think the correct answer is "No, I'd get dental procedures from a dentist, and incidentally none of this is relevant to the "who actually is a doctor" discussion", yeah?
Now here's one for you: If you got a flat tyre, would you go to a dentist to change it?
@AustriaBargain: (See, what I'm going to do is I'm going to expand the discussion to coverage of all aspects of the human body and medical procedures, and then 'well that person is a sort-of doctor of that sort-of process' it for a bit to really bring meaning to the "speaking literally, who are medical doctors" discussion. That's where the value in this derailing really is. Before too long, we'll be discussing how a podiatrist dealing with in-grown toenails are doctors as well. Then I can get going on the homeopathic treatments that 'chemists' deal in and many other subjects that were never on the table).
Pass.
@Crow K: If a dentist can be trusted to perform surgery on the bones in your head then they are akin to doctors. They are medicine adjacent at least.
@AustriaBargain: Sure, and I suppose if Mrs X trusted Pete Evans to provide homeopathic services to herself, he is also akin to/sort-of-doctor/medicine adjacent as well and et bloody cetera.
Thanks a bunch for bringing 'use of the word doctor as a metaphor' to the 'literal use of the word doctor' discussion. You've helped a lot.
Hard pass.
@Crow K: So if you have gum disease or an infected tooth or need a section of jaw replaced, you would go to a homeopathic practitioner because they are close to being the same thing as medicine in your eyes as dentists?
@AustriaBargain: If you're looking for some form of validation that what you had said originally was a pertinent thing, you need to look elsewhere.
The pass that was heard around the world.
@Crow K: I don't need your validation. You'r the one who keeps replying to me, I'm just answering back. What kind of validation are you looking for? Show me on the doll where the dentist touched you, and it had better be somewhere other than the mouth.
@Crow K: But you are the one replying to me, I made the top level comment. You're the one trying to prove something here. If you don't care about the "last word" then simply don't reply to this comment.
the travesty.
Is it 100% the same as there are allot of differences in fragrance types as per the following:
https://www.perfume.com/article-a-guide-to-perfume-types
Tried to price match upmarket perfume a couple of months back. Sales rep said that they do not price match CW suggesting that CW did not sell the genuine product
Wife worked at the Myers perfume section about 10 years ago (I could be getting the timing a bit wrong).
Management told her that they didn't price match Chemist Warehouse because Chemist Warehouse buys older stock that would have lost some of its potency, which is why they can buy it cheaper, while Myers gets the newer and more expensive stock.
No sure if that is the Myer company wide reasoning but it was the reasoning/excuse that her store gave.
Apparently Chemist Warehouse get their perfumes as grey imports from other markets so their cost price is much lower because they bypass the official local distributors here. Some places claim the quality of the grey imports are often lower depending on the market they're imported from.
You can try your luck but Myer's price match policy can be found here: https://www.myer.com.au/content/competitive-pricing-policy
There's a couple of clauses they can use to deny it, from below cost price to source of competitor's product.