Michaels paint score!

[DanR]

I stopped into Michaels in Wilton, CT last night and found pre-thinned bottles of Aztek paints on clearance for 2.99 each. There were only 3 colors marked down so I figured I'd grab them and see how they lay down. On my way home from work tonight,  I decided to check Michaels in Stamford to see if they had any different colors. Well, someone wasn't paying attention and put 79 cents clearance tags in front of ALL of the Aztek paints. I got all of these for about $20.

[jasoncardenas21]

Nice, what a score.

 

[ChrisBcritter]

Aw, man... you lucky dog. I'd better check my local store; last I looked the ones on special (for $2.99 instead of $5.99) were all shades of pink!

Edited February 12, 2016 by ChrisBcritter
Why not?

[DanR]

Chris,  every one of these scanned at 1.99 or 2.99, so check again.  They may be discounted but not marked as clearance. I would think all Michaels would have consistent pricing. 

[Harry Joy]

Good deal. Did you tell them they made a mistake? That would be the right thing to do. I found something similar at Michael's once, where someone made a coding error at the main office. The store still sold me the product I'd picked up, and at the incorrect price, but I had the satisfaction of knowing I had done the right thing. I'm in retail, and I can promise you, the margins are thin. One sale at the wrong retail won't put a store out of business, but it can hurt.

[DanR]

They know they goofed. In CT, there is a law that if they mislabel something, they have to honor the price. The manager probably changed the price tags immediately after I left.  She wasn't too happy about selling me roughly $60 of paint for a third of that! 

[Harry Joy]

Honoring the price listed is the law in a lot of northern states, and the store policy in a lot of other nationwide chains. But as a retailer, I sympathize. It's also the Boy Scout in me. One place I shop, a specialty place, consistently tries to undercharge me for something I buy pretty often. The clerks keep trying to charge me for one of something I buy in a sealed pack of six (no, not beer). Each time, I politely correct them. It's the right thing - and I want them to know what they are actually selling, so it's there the next time I come.

But sometimes I chide them.

[DanR]

I didn't feel bad about getting these cheap. They were on clearance already and the store made the mistake. I legitimately thought they were 79 cents each and got pretty psyched about buying a bunch of them.