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Tuesday, April 8, 2008

Oh Target. . .

I went to Super Target today to return something and go grocery shopping. Not my normal grocery store, but I had a gift card and $15 in grocery coupons. I only go "big" grocery shopping once every three weeks or so. That was today. Chris is going in 2 hours early now, so I had all three children shopping with me, which is never ideal. I was armed with snacks, lollipops, my list, coupons, and my calculator. Yes, I'm THAT grocery shopper. We got a HUGE cart full of stuff, paid, and started to walk out. I thought that the total seemed high, so I pulled my cart over and glanced at my receipt. At first glance, I didn't see anything suspicious. It was now 12:15. Lunch time, time to feed Jack, and Henry was tired. I loaded all of the groceries into the car, got my children all buckled into their seats, put the cart away, and got in the car. I still felt like something wasn't right with my total. I pulled out the receipt and went line by line down. Ah yes. I missed it the first time. While I was in the store, not in my car with everyone ready to go and popsicles melting in the trunk. I bought some "red on the vine" tomatoes which were $2.29 a pound. Not $46.63, which is what I was charged. Are you kidding me? So I really didn't have a choice at that point -- I had to get the boys home and fed, and get all of my stuff out of the car before it melted. I would have taken me more than 10 minutes to get everyone out, buckled back into a shopping cart, go in and have them adjust it, then come back out and reverse the process. Henry's napping and when he wakes up we'll be going back to Target to correct that!

2 comments:

Julie said...

Sadly, I love these type of stories...even when it happens to me! How in the world did it ring up $46??? Do tell!

Kim said...

They're sold by weight -- the only thing I can think is that she typed the PLU number in from the sticker, because it was the exact same number sequence as the $$ amount I got charged!! I told Chris and he said, "How on earth did you miss that?" HELLO! I had been there for over an hour trying to coordinate an enormous shopping cart, almost $300 worth of food, $27 in coupons, snacks, oh right - and three children four and under. He can go next time. . .