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Dollar Tree installs customer price scanners for a disheartening reason: Never thought Id see the day
Well, that’s priceless.An observant Dollar Tree shopper recently spotted a price checker in the aisles at their local store.In a post on the popular Facebook group Retail Dead or Alive, a space dedicated to “discussing retail of ANY kind,” a member posted a photo of the scanner.“Never thought I’d see the day when you’d need a price checker at the Dollar Tree,” the poster wrote.
The photo shows a Dollar Tree aisle with a price checker next to some boxes, ready to be scanned.The tech shocked some shoppers who questioned why a store that was made famous for having items priced at $1 — I mean, it’s in their name — would even need a scanner.As usual, the post infuriated many and commenters flooded in.One Facebook user wrote, “Sad sad thing lately.
Never know if it’s 1.25, 1.50, 3, 5, 10 even.Ridiculous.” “Dollar-inspired pricing,” another joked.Shoppers are referring to the chain officially moving to a “multi-price strategy,” adding items for well over $1.
The discount retailer hiked prices back in November 2021, adding items for $3 and $5.Since then, shoppers can spot price tags reaching all the way up to $10.The technology may not be new, though.Shoppers revealed that many states have been implementing the price checkers for several years — and some find them pretty handy.“We have these in California.
I’m glad.Whenever I see an item with a red sticker on it means it’s not priced as 1.25.
So [the] scanner will show,” a Facebook user wrote. In fact, Massachusetts added price checkers to every location after a law was passed back in 2012.Under the Item Pricing Law, food and grocery stores over 5,000 sq.
ft.are now required to have at least one scanner in every store.The law also removed individual sticker prices on store shelves.
Before the change, most grocery items in Massachusetts had to have them attached to each item on store shelves.This became quite costly for stores and they found the change added some financia...