Walmart Rollbacks Cost More Than Original Prices Now?

[u/Dm210543]

[u/Benevon]

I work at a grocery store and I see it alot where I'm putting up new tags showing "was 11.99 now 9.99!" But the tag I'm replacing was 7.99. They literally lie about the prices going down to make people think they are getting a good deal

[u/merpixieblossomxo → u/Benevon]

That's not even new. There have been news articles and studies done on pricing scams for at least a decade, especially in the fall/winter because of Black Friday and holiday shopping.

It's foul, but not enough people know or care (or are able to care) to do anything about it.

[u/BillHang4 → u/merpixieblossomxo]

I used to do the price tags at Home Depot. They would raise the price of stuff for a certain amount of time so they could lower it and we could put a “New Lower Price!” Arrow on it. I saw the patterns over time and it was ridiculous.

[u/FinsFan305 → u/Benevon]

Happens a lot on Amazon too with the Prime Day deals. Some are good but there are others where the MSRP goes up in order to show a fake sale.

[u/TanishqHooda → u/FinsFan305]

Atleast now amazon has price history chart

[u/srslytho323 → u/TanishqHooda]

And camelcamelcamel!

[u/IllLevel1658 → u/Benevon]

In EU now you have to display the lowest price in the past 30days to combat this!

[u/WHYER4 → u/Benevon]

Isn’t that illegal?

[u/Pyromaniacal13 → u/WHYER4]

Who's going to stop them? The US Federal Trade Commission? I'm sure the check from the Waltons cleared before the election.

[u/OpportunityReal2767 → u/Benevon]

Yes. A local grocery store does that for barbecue holiday sales. I remember a few years back baby back ribs were about $2.99/$3.49/lb at normal groceries, not sale price. Come Memorial Day weekend, the other store would advertise “buy 1 get 2 free” (yes, like that) sales, which immediately raised my suspicions. Sure enough, their per package price was labeled at $9.99/lb. And not only that, they charge you for the heaviest one and the two lighter ones are the free ones, so unless you get three exactly the same weight, you’re also losing out money on that. Yet people were stocking up on these, anyway. One time I even found the label hadn’t been properly affixed so you could see the regular $2.99-$3.49/lb price under it! And they’re still pulling this stunt.

[u/Siserith → u/Benevon]

Literally 1984.

[u/waitingOnMyletter → u/Benevon]

Black Friday in a nutshell

[u/Justreadingthisshit]

It’s a Roll UP now

[u/nickolan → u/Justreadingthisshit]

Yep, just in time for another fake sale like Prime Days.

You basically have to check prices with a tool like PriceLasso or CamelCamelCamel to make sure prices actually dropped.

[u/I-Stan-Alfred-J-Kwak → u/nickolan]

Do those work for non-American chains?

[u/Accomplished_Emu_658]

The bottom price is probably right, but someone didn’t have the new top sign, and too lazy to remove old one in meantime.

Or its malicious compliance. Told to change bottom price so they did they were never given the sign for top and said oh well.

[u/Educational_Sky_6073 → u/Accomplished_Emu_658]

Our nuttela is currently $4.47 on rollback from $4.97. Looks like once again someone changed it for internet points.

[u/BillLebowski]

You guys get Nutella peanut butter!

[u/ClickIta → u/BillLebowski]

My same reaction. But it seems it is an hybrid between standard Nutella and peanut butter, at is has cocoa as well. Sounds interesting.

[u/revdon → u/ClickIta]

Sounds like Koogle!

[u/makingkevinbacon → u/BillLebowski]

Fr plus the regular stuff is like 8 bucks here I think

[u/xoxoBug → u/BillLebowski]

I just watched a documentary on ferrero rocher and they are changing a ton of recipes to “cater to the American palette.” It was pretty wild seeing how they’re buying up all these small companies, saying it was sort of playing the system.

[u/Exhausted-CNA]

Soon to be called the rollforward cost.

[u/Maximum_Employer5580]

all those signs are are for psychology reasons - they know plenty of people will look at it and not think twice about buying it. The few of us that will look and call BS don't matter

[u/rtkane]

Rollback to last Tuesday when it was a penny higher in price.

[u/MegaSmegmaSwagLord]

Walmart is filled with employees who took tests that asked them questions like:

If your boss told you to do something would you
A) tell them to fuck off
B) do what they say
C) ignore it for a while
D) find something else to do.

I’ve been in an unemployment shithole for a while so I am speaking from experience. They are not the brightest bunch.

[u/Rhodin265 → u/MegaSmegmaSwagLord]

The real answer is “It depends on what’s being asked”, but they’re probably looking for “B”.  Where’s my paycheck, Waltons?

[u/MegaSmegmaSwagLord → u/Rhodin265]

Yup

[u/Shapesizes → u/MegaSmegmaSwagLord]

TBF pretty much every job is either B, or C followed by B.

[u/Cultural_Simple3842]

“Well, it WAS gonna be $4.97 but diesel prices went up. So this actually did reduce our profit margin. Thus, we are taking credit for saving you money.”

[u/Mountain_Till_5868]

Rolling up

[u/SignificantLeader]

Considering inflation it’s a roll back. Lol.

[u/BrainWav]

They rolled back too hard and caused an underflow error.

[u/Forward-Bank8412]

Now I have the Katamari theme song in my head!

[u/natiusj]

If you roll back far enough it flips the odometer

[u/roblewk]

It was about to go way up.

[u/itsTurgid]

Rolling back to before the cut.

[u/Livid_Tax_8078]

I literally have a rollback add right underneath this post

[u/Kelef50]

I'm not an expert on pricing or marketing, but I think it must have something to do with the penny being eliminated. 😊

[u/ProfligateVhorohiiv]

Because "fuck you", that's why. It's corporate policy to screw the customer.

[u/iPicBadUsernames]

We have rollups now

[u/Ill-Tea9411]

Those are the demand pricing rollbacks.

[u/Starchaser_WoF]

It's still just $5 written in a fancy way

[u/I-Stan-Alfred-J-Kwak → u/Starchaser_WoF]

Worse in Finland where we literally don't have an one cent coin unless we get it as change in some other country (not sure if they'd be accepted though), yet everything's still .99€

They might even round up when you pay on card, not sure.

[u/Just-Try-2533]

Roll back to the future, Marty!

[u/Hypothetical_Name]

Off sale, 1¢ on

[u/JediMasterKenJen]

Most likely an error on the part of whomever put up the prices. That or it hasn't been changed over yet depending on the time of day it was taken (more likely if it was at night near closing)

[u/norsurfit]

Walmart Roll-Forward

[u/TrontosaurusRex]

They rolled back the savings.

[u/H6RR6RSH6W]

Dynamic pricing

[u/Cjdj1985]

Bring back the old smile rollback man and then maybe shit will make sense

[u/TanishqHooda]

Rolled Back To Original Expensive Price 😂

[u/Natural_Hall9343]

Roll back to more profit for the company

[u/CarefulCartoonist352]

they're not rolling back prices, they're just re-pricing everything higher

[u/VideoGameControllers]

Not the first time. I have a picture from close to twenty years ago when they did that while I was working there.

[u/Unlikely_Flower_138]

You have to wait for it to roll

[u/Ja_Shi]

Least French breakfast.

[u/kbum48733]

Our economy is stronger than ever!

[u/Muted-Pay-9736]

yep it just be like that yk

[u/I-Stan-Alfred-J-Kwak]

Just one cent?

[u/Sammywanka]

It’s a small price to pay for more expensive gas

[u/Life_Possibility_271]

Walmart used their own trucks. What’s the price of diesel?

[u/GingerNumber3]

The ball is rolling UP!

[u/Zerst__]

Occam's razor is someone took them out and flipped the numbers from something like $4.29 to take a quick photo for internet points.

[u/ECMxxUpToWnDC]

You're welcome

[u/Baka619]

When I worked at Walmart my manager told me Rollback was a strategic marketing term that simply meant the price changed lol. Prices “Rollback” up and “Rollback” down. Horrible marketing practice.

[u/wbknine]

Rolling back the rollback

[u/RealOGTyrone]

Who did this? Kill them