Whole Foods Punishes Itself For Screwing Up Prices (take advantage of it!)

If you go to buy an item at a retail store and the register price is different than the shelf price, most stores will honor the shelf price. However, if this happens at Whole Foods, it goes a step further. Here’s how it happened to me:

Price Mismatch

I saw a sale price on the shelf. I took item to get rung up. It’s different than shelf. I paid for the item, but they sent me to  customer service (I thought to get the difference back, which was $1). But the customer service person gave me the FULL PRICE of the item back! I guess they do this to, I dunno, make an example of themselves so they keep up on the prices?

Sadly, I went back the next day to get more of the tomato sauce (Frank’s – it’s AMAZING!), and the lower (wrong) price was still showing. I could have really taken advantage of this but some misdirected sense of ethics prevented me.

Item Doesn’t Scan

A few days later, I found they had my favorite Dulce De Leche in stock, so I grabbed three jars and scrambled to the register. The item didn’t scan. So guess what happens when the item doesn’t scan? FREE! And they made it free right at the register! Again this could be exploited, but I really didn’t need more than three jars of milk caramel.