Food Lion ~ Question Food Lion: Does your store raise the price of non-advertised sale items before the sale end date?

Sparkle · 09-08-2009, 05:59:00 PM

The Planters Trail Mix has been on sale all week for $1.99. I checked the sticker on the shelf and it said sale through today, 9/8. (I was hoping it would last for 2 weeks)
So today, 9/8, they rang up full price. I was told by a higher up, not sure if she was the manager, that sale items not featured in their ad could be priced changed at any time. I was told the same thing before when this happened to me on another item a couple of months ago. The sale stickers had been removed from the shelf but I thought it was because they were getting ready for the new sale tomorrow.
I am thinking about contacting corporate.
Has this happened to anyone else? Is this a common practice?

CouponFairy · 09-08-2009, 06:59:43 PM

Well, I went today to finish getting the BOGO Reese's cups and they were back to $.89 and they were IN the ad. So I'm confused and a little miffed.

notsyourbeezwax · 09-09-2009, 03:06:01 AM

Originally Posted by Sparkle

The Planters Trail Mix has been on sale all week for $1.99. I checked the sticker on the shelf and it said sale through today, 9/8. (I was hoping it would last for 2 weeks)
So today, 9/8, they rang up full price. I was told by a higher up, not sure if she was the manager, that sale items not featured in their ad could be priced changed at any time. I was told the same thing before when this happened to me on another item a couple of months ago. The sale stickers had been removed from the shelf but I thought it was because they were getting ready for the new sale tomorrow.
I am thinking about contacting corporate.
Has this happened to anyone else? Is this a common practice?

This happened to me yesterday, as well. I had a similar problem a few weeks ago with something (life savers maybe?). If I can't point to it in the current ad, I don't bother questioning the price. I forgot this yesterday, or I would not have picked up the trail mix when the shelf tag was gone.

Really, without an ad or a shelf tag, how can you prove your point?

MysticWench · 09-09-2009, 05:27:29 AM

That happened with the HA hand soap - the price change before the end of the sale. But only in some stores - other stores still had it on sale for a few weeks beyond the sale date. Who knows FLs reasoning?

MrsPinecone · 09-09-2009, 05:30:01 AM

It all depends when they change it in the system at that store.

I usually don't shop in the afternoons before the sale ends, because my stores have been known to end the sale early.

GardenGnome · 09-09-2009, 08:23:14 AM

Yes, this has happened countless times to me.....I'll notice something on sale and check the sale end date so I can come back with my coupons and wouldn't you know the sale tag will be gone the next day (mid-week). Sometimes I've found the opposite and that sale prices ring up a day past when they are suppose to. There is no rhyme or reason to FL sometimes and I find they are often disorganized and customer service at my FL isn't hte friendliest so I just let it slide figuring I have no recourse. It's lousy and a big reason I don't shop at FL often, because they aren't reliable.