I normally do most of my shopping at Aldi (which isn't exactly perfect itself) but I am noticing my local Coles (Canberra CBD) in particular is either getting lazy or engaging in some shady practices.
Just today I saw the same avocados in two different locations with different price tags on them. I bought a discounted tin of soup and the listed discount disappeared at the checkout (I didn't realise this until I got back to my desk at work and checked the receipt).
Other times i've grabbed a packet of chips thinking I was paying one price but it was disguised as discount on a smaller packet of the same type that was right next to it. Another time I bought something on discount and they charged me full, by the time I returned to the store to ask, they discount tag had been removed so I had no evidence to prove I had been mislead.
Yes a number of these are at least partially my fault, but it really is at the point now where I feel like I have to carry around a camera phone and a calculator.
Am I the only one noticing this? Is this just a case of this particular store being lax with it's labelling? What other "dark patterns" and misleading practices have you noticed?
You only JUST realising that the colesworth crime gang are doing shady things? lol
This is likely someone not updating the prices, rather than something intentional. They can do a lot more dodgy things than something so blatant.
That's just you not seeing the price difference between products. Every supermarket does this, it's nothing new.
Simple explanation is that the promotion ended and they were removing it, rather than seeing you checkout at full price as a "gotcha" and removing the stickers.
Does colesworth do dodgy stuff? Definitely. Are these examples of it? Not really.