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From: rhc@ptsfa.UUCP (Robert Cohen)
Newsgroups: net.consumers
Subject: Re: UPC Scanners
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Date: Mon, 23-Dec-85 03:18:28 EST
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Posted: Mon Dec 23 03:18:28 1985
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Summary: whatever happened to marking individual items?

Another real disadvantage for the consumer is that individual
items are not always marked and there may or may not be a
price sticker posted on the shelf.  I find shopping frustrating
anyway, so when I can't find a price for an item ANYWHERE,
I may just throw it in the cart anyway.  Now, do you think
I actually look to see what the unknowns are scanned as?
Note that I find these mystery items far more frequently
in the LuckSafe type of markets.

On a related subject, I really miss enforced unit pricing.
I once lived in Massachusetts where every item in the market
had to be priced by the ounce or pound.  Made comparisons
between brands easy.  In California, some chains do _some_
unit pricing, but usually not enough.  Currently, my solution
is to use COOP, a cooperative chain which unit prices everything.
Alas, that means a special trip to another part of town...

-- 
Robert Cohen
San Francisco, California
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