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.79c not the same as 79c

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  • 04-07-2010 5:02pm
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    fletch
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    I was in Dunnes Stored today buying pepper sauce when I noticed the price was noted as .79c. I understood that this was obviously a pricing error and the decimal point should not have been included so I informed the supervisor. He was extremely rude to me and told me that this was a commonly understood way of euro pricing. I told him that it should either say €0.79 or 79c however he told me he would have to disagree with me. I told him he was wrong and he walked off and joked that he would do something about it right away.

    Can 79cent be displayed as .79c?


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    Dr. Kenneth Noisewater
    Registered Users Posts: 3,236 ✭✭✭Dr. Kenneth Noisewater


    Quite the pedant, aren't you?!

    I see your point though, technically .79c is less than 1c. I agree, it should either be 79c or €0.79.


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    Penisland
    Registered Users Posts: 293 ✭✭Penisland


    fletch wrote: »
    I was in Dunnes Stored today buying pepper sauce when I noticed the price was noted as .79c. I understood that this was obviously a pricing error and the decimal point should not have been included so I informed the supervisor. He was extremely rude to me and told me that this was a commonly understood way of euro pricing. I told him that it should either say €0.79 or 79c however he told me he would have to disagree with me. I told him he was wrong and he walked off and joked that he would do something about it right away.

    Can 79cent be displayed as .79c?

    Typical ignorance of management in Dunnes


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    fletch
    Registered Users Posts: 7,405 ✭✭✭fletch


    deccurley wrote: »
    Quite the pedant, aren't you?!
    Well I was actually being nice by pointing it out to him because some other customer could bring up 100packets of the sauce to the till and expect to pay 79cent (unlikely I know).


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    Run_to_da_hills
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,009 ✭✭✭✭Run_to_da_hills


    You should have given him 1.00c and told him to keep the change. :D


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    jack presley
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,687 ✭✭✭✭jack presley


    Unfortunately stores don't have to stick to what the price tag displays. A price tag is only 'an offer to treat' (i.e. an invitation for you to make an offer for the good at that price) so legally they don't have to sell items to you at the price displayed. This way there ass is covered if there is an error.


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    fletch
    Registered Users Posts: 7,405 ✭✭✭fletch


    jack presley wrote: »
    Unfortunately stores don't have to stick to what the price tag displays. A price tag is only 'an offer to treat' (i.e. an invitation for you to make an offer for the good at that price) so legally they don't have to sell items to you at the price displayed. This way there ass is covered if there is an error.
    I'm well aware of this however I was trying to be nice, in case he got some misinformed battle axe screaming that she wanted the sauce for 0.79cent later on in the day...


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    axer
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    tbh in this case you were just being pedantic and as a result wasting the manager's time however he should have thanked you for highlighting the issue and left it at that.


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    noodler
    Registered Users Posts: 26,400 ✭✭✭✭noodler


    axer wrote: »
    tbh in this case you were just being pedantic and as a result wasting the manager's time however he should have thanked you for highlighting the issue and left it at that.

    Christ you're worse. Spelling mistakes should be fixed by common course - this is little different.


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    axer
    Registered Users Posts: 5,517 ✭✭✭axer


    noodler wrote: »
    Christ you're worse. Spelling mistakes should be fixed by common course - this is little different.
    So you think someone might genuinely mistake .79c as being less than a cent?


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    dudara
    Registered Users Posts: 33,518 ✭✭✭✭dudara


    axer wrote: »
    So you think someone might genuinely mistake .79c as being less than a cent?

    I would - but then I'm a pedant as well as a scientist. To me 0.79c means 79% of a cent.

    However, I do know what they intended to say which was €0.79 or 79c.


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    noodler
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    axer wrote: »
    So you think someone might genuinely mistake .79c as being less than a cent?

    Of course not - I think that is missing the point.

    If a sign said Tomato Ketsup instead of ketchup I would still now what they are selling but it doesn't mean the incorrect sign should remain indefinitely.


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    jimmycrackcorm
    Registered Users Posts: 14,339 ✭✭✭✭jimmycrackcorm


    OP, I'm with you just as soon as I see 0.79c in coins.


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    Dymo
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    I think a bit of common sense should prevail here. The manager probably has to put up with real complaints during the day and something this trivial doesn't seem important.


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    discus
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,049 ✭✭✭discus


    Dymo wrote: »
    I think a bit of common sense should prevail here. The manager probably has to put up with real complaints during the day and something this trivial doesn't seem important.

    Absolutely. If I was the manager, I doubt that I would have been able to keep a straight face! Listen OP, we get you're a pedant. But common sense has to prevail at some stage? You're insulting your own intelligence with stuff like this.

    The supervisor was right - it's the commonly understood way. Why change something isn't broken?


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    ShooterSF
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    Shame it wasnt Tesco or you could have gotten a lot of free pepper sauce! ;)

    An error is an error and when pointed out, if even minor, the supervisor would do well to thank the customer for pointing it out. Getting argumentative over it when you're wrong seems silly.


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    fletch
    Registered Users Posts: 7,405 ✭✭✭fletch


    discus wrote: »
    The supervisor was right - it's the commonly understood way. Why change something isn't broken?
    It's not a commonly understood way of pricing, it was an error. Yes common sense would tell people that the goods weren't <1cent but it was technically wrong.
    ShooterSF wrote: »
    An error is an error and when pointed out, if even minor, the supervisor would do well to thank the customer for pointing it out. Getting argumentative over it when you're wrong seems silly.
    Thank You. I was trying to be nice by pointing it out to him. I wasn't for one moment suggesting that I thought I should only be paying 0.79cent for the product. His reaction shocked me, as did his lack of intelligence.


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    noodler
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    discus wrote: »
    Absolutely. If I was the manager, I doubt that I would have been able to keep a straight face! Listen OP, we get you're a pedant. But common sense has to prevail at some stage? You're insulting your own intelligence with stuff like this.

    The supervisor was right - it's the commonly understood way. Why change something isn't broken?

    Really?

    All I can remember in shops offhand is €0.79

    They leave out the cent generally?


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    djdunny
    Registered Users Posts: 1,097 ✭✭✭djdunny


    reminds me of this video i saw a few weeks ago

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D2isSJKntbg&feature=related


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    discus
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,049 ✭✭✭discus


    noodler wrote: »
    Really?

    All I can remember in shops offhand is €0.79

    They leave out the cent generally?

    I've seen it in plenty of shops. The software packages used for scanning barcodes / doing prices checks and printing off the shelf-edge labels are usually very basic pieces of software. I think sometimes in my shop this happens where the cent abbreviation proceeds the number after the decimal point. No one (to my knowledge) has raised any issue of it


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    T-Maxx
    Registered Users Posts: 3,148 ✭✭✭T-Maxx


    Some of the posts here are so typical of the "Ahhh sure it'll be grand" mentality. Add to this a manager of a major national retailer who doesn't know the meaning of a decimal point, and it's little wonder Ireland is such a backwards little country...:o


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    sunnysoutheast
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    fletch wrote: »
    I was in Dunnes Stored today buying pepper sauce when I noticed the price was noted as .79c. I understood that this was obviously a pricing error and the decimal point should not have been included so I informed the supervisor. He was extremely rude to me and told me that this was a commonly understood way of euro pricing. I told him that it should either say €0.79 or 79c however he told me he would have to disagree with me. I told him he was wrong and he walked off and joked that he would do something about it right away.

    Can 79cent be displayed as .79c?

    You should have got existential and asked him why the pepper sauce was priced at 79% of the speed of light in a vacuum.

    SSE


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    fletch
    Registered Users Posts: 7,405 ✭✭✭fletch


    T-Maxx wrote: »
    Add to this a manager of a major national retailer who doesn't know the meaning of a decimal point, and it's little wonder Ireland is such a backwards little country...:o
    Yeh its pretty frightening...went back today and checked the price and it's still not updated
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    Craptacular
    Registered Users Posts: 215 ✭✭Craptacular


    axer wrote: »
    So you think someone might genuinely mistake .79c as being less than a cent?
    They wouldn't be mistaken, isn't that the point?

    At least the price on the right of the picture is correct.


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    EKRIUQ
    Registered Users Posts: 4,386 ✭✭✭EKRIUQ


    fletch wrote: »
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    From that picture it's pretty obvious what the price is, if you can't work it out I don't think you should be allowed out on your own


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    Yawns
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 4,255 ✭✭✭Yawns


    OP grow up a little. Did it make your day to waste the supervisor's time like that?

    Almost everyone else will understand how much the item really is so the supervisor is correct in saying it's commonly undertsood. Next time you should be more productive and tell him what colour shirt and tie he is wearing.


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    Hector Mildew
    Registered Users Posts: 253 ✭✭Hector Mildew


    Yawns wrote: »

    Almost everyone else will understand how much the item really is so the supervisor is correct in saying it's commonly undertsood.

    Doesn't make it right..

    If Dunnes were to advertise .79% discount off pepper sauce in a campaign, would you expect 79% off?

    http://www.citizensinformation.ie/categories/consumer-affairs/consumer-protection/consumer-rights/consumer_advertising


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    babygirlz
    Registered Users Posts: 288 ✭✭babygirlz


    Penisland wrote: »
    Typical ignorance of management in Dunnes

    Really, just paint them all with the one brush, why don't you.


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    rubberdiddies
    Closed Accounts Posts: 717 ✭✭✭rubberdiddies


    OP why dont you just report them if you're so concerned? see how far you get with that.

    there's more to worry about in life than the .0000000001% of people who would actually think that the price in question was less than 1 cent.

    whilst technically incorrect, I've seen this 'error' in tons of shops but kept it to myself cos I've got important things to do


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    Exclamation Marc
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    As one poster said, prices on shelves are only invitations to treat, nothing else.
    I don't think anyone in the world would think that this price was actually 0.79c, if they really really did, then they have bigger problems in life than an apparent misprice on a shop shelf.

    I get that it's technically incorrect, but thats what it is, a technicality.

    Considering this currency/any supermarket under the Irish sun doesn't operate in amounts lower than 1c, it's fairly straightforward what is meant.

    I genuinely don't think anyone in this world is stupid enough to bring one cent to the til to pay for this, and if they did, the till operator would obviously refuse, and the 'buyer' would have absolutely zero recourse, thank god.

    This whole debate is completely pointless in my opinion.


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    Hector Mildew
    Registered Users Posts: 253 ✭✭Hector Mildew


    discus wrote: »
    The supervisor was right - it's the commonly understood way. Why change something isn't broken?

    Aside from being incorrect a pricing error in Dunnes is no big deal, but what if the sales assistant in your pharmacy was equally ignorant/ careless?


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    http://www.uspharmacist.com/content/d/ismp_-_medication_safety/c/10158/


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