Iggy - look at your receipt again. You paid $5.49 for the bacon. Actual cost is listed on the left of the receipt.
Pretty quick thinking there JLM!
Are B.C. school teachers being realistic
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Haggling for bacon? Is that how you spend your weekends or would you rather haggle for a real wage every 3-4 years so you don't need to clip coupons and haggle for bacon in your spare time?
They make more than a "real" wage and NO ONE pays $7.50 a pound for regular bacon unless they are complete morons.
Average price in Vernon is around $5 for 500 grams. Some is cheaper but only good for greasing the pan.
There is a ****load of complete morons in the world that have no clue you can haggle for bacon. If I wasn't a card a card carrying member of the "more club" and didn't know the secrect code "hey I'm from out of province" *wink wink* I'd be paying $7.50.
I don't think you understand much of life, don't you rely on belief in a fantasy? That's not facing problems head on, man. Facing a problem head on is killing yourself when there's nothing to live for; stumbling along being an azzhole (as you do) is for cowards.
Yep, things have changed in 50 years, if we got a whoopin' at school we prayed the old man wouldn't hear about it.
You are so right. You would have paid the $7.49 without the SOM card. You don't even have to say you are from out of province. Just tell them you are a tourist. "I'm a tourist. Do you have a tourist card?" works just fine. When people came through my till and they didn't have a card and did not want one, instead of all the fuss I used to say in an elevated voice "So, you are tourists are you, I'll just call for a manager's card". What many people don't believe is that a cashier can be fired for agreeing to use another customer's card unless she/he knows for sure that the borrowed card is being used between two people who truly came in together. People think you are lying when they are told that. When the cashier's are hired, each one signs a paper agreeing that they can be fired if they allow that to happen. So - at first you are really afraid and you take all kinds of ****e from the customers. Then you wise up and call for a managers card.
Since there are no SOM stores in your province, you just have to say what province you are from and the cashier will likely bend over backwards to get a manager there to help you out.
Our food prices have gone over the top in the past couple of months so Gerry - if you lived in this province - you wouldn't be eating much bacon. In most stores, a pound of un-salted butter is over $7.00.
Then you come and shop where I live. Those same high prices right now are in places like Super Store as well. We have a Thrifty's Store (now owned by Sobey's) and you'll probably pay even more there. Quality foods - not as high as Thrifty's but usually more than SOM. We don't have a Safeway but there is one down the road a bit. It's just as high. Even Wal Mart prices are up considerably. This summer the stores were selling 24 pks. of canned pop for over $10.00. They used to always be 2 cases of 12 for $6.00.
People will bite off their nose to spite their face. They refuse the SOM card because they believe that they should be able to buy the product with or without a card. What they believe and what is real simply don't jive. I offered to call for a manager's card for one silly woman one night and she refused. More money than brains.
I think these cards are just a bloody nuisance and don't really see the point of them besides ripping off the customer. In B.C. you can generally get Red Label bacon from Safeway for $5 or less. It's not bad bacon.