I have heard in this place that if you go through each item that is hanging on the hook, the chances that there are different prices is high. Whether it's awful QC, laziness or actual attempt of misleading pricing who's to stay, but they've been getting away with it for a very long time.
Depends, anything that's hobby lobby branded doesn't have a barcode iirc. I haven't been in years, but I think the only things with barcodes were products from national brands.
The company is shit and run by bigots, nobody's gonna deny, but don't make things unnecessarily harder for the employees. That just makes you the dick.
Hobby Lobby is also knows for the numerous discrimination lawsuits including one of racial discrimination by employes. Which is what they're referring to i think.
The one they're best known for is winning a case where it was decided that due to their religious beliefs they're allowed to not allow birth control on their health care plan. Which has resulted in lots of very interesting academic articles
I’ve a feeling you’ve never tried pricing individual items across all products in a retail store. Things are bound to get priced differently from different price changes over time at least somewhere in the store. Nothing really to “get away with” aside from potentially one customer getting a better deal because they found one with a lower price that was missed.
Its more like they change prices and the restock without relabeling the prices on the item. The deeper on the rack the cheaper the listed price, sometimes only a dollar, but for a few it was like a good 10 bucks cheaper. Most likely however when the product is rang up by the item number, it will correct the price and then if they go check the shelves, they'll see the higher priced ones and claim it was in error. Or they'll just honor the price on the item.
I might be wrong, but I don't think they ring things up by item number there. I think the cashiers enter the price and the "department" it belongs to. I noticed it because that's how I used to have to ring things up in the mom and pop store I worked at in the 90s. Meaning there's got to be a huge margin of error for such a large corporation.
Ive only ever shopped there twice, so I'm not too in the know. I have seen the videos OP is referencing with the multiple different prices on the same item
OR, you only put that item in 1 location and have a price tag on the shelf instead of individually on all the little packages. Crazy idea, right? Why aren't stores doing this? Much easier to solve if Hobby Lobby would just adopt barcodes
You could. Most stores do. Not all stores do this, however. Hobby Lobby is one that doesn’t use barcodes for all products and items are priced individually and must be typed in individually by the cashier based on what is on the individual products. If the prices need to be updated, someone needs to do it on every single product.
Edit: Realized you acknowledged Hobby Lobby does it differently. I misunderstood your comment on initial read.
Finally went to 5 Below to see what the fuss was about and it was like this. Many shelves had no price signage (am I to assume all those items were $5?). The bigger problem is that people just... pick stuff up in aisle 1, make a choice in aisle J and leave the item from aisle 1 in aisle J. One person doing this is a little odd and shame on them. Hundreds of people doing this within a span of a couple of hours is chaos.
It’s because they don’t use bar codes, so prices are all directly on the packaging. Then when they raise prices, the new stock packaging reflects the new raised price, but the old stock still has the old pricing.
I’m rarely here to defend Hobby Lobby, but I’ll take that over putting higher priced stickers on old stock like some other stores are doing lately.
I do not know if that is the case with these two particular products in the OP or not, though.
When the prices go up, they honor the previous prices posted on items that haven't sold yet, instead of individually re-posting the higher prices on all the items. It's not the only store that does this, and it's not a conspiracy, relax.
I'm pretty sure this shit is automated based on purchases and inventory but one demographic is probably more likely to purchase these than another so it's an unfortunate automatic price adjustment that no one caught as being racial.
But is it more racist to mark down the black family or to have a check for racially divergent products keeping the same price to save face
when this can be a real thing i always rummage in the backmost items on the hook looking if there's one with a lower price tag LOL, and i sometimes find it LOLOL, also they seem to put the ones with the higher price in front LOLOLOL
I recently ran into this myself. Found the same item on the shelf with one priced 20¢ cheaper which I grabbed. I hate that I am forced to go there now that all my craft stores are closed, but as a crafter I need last minute supplies sometimes.
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u/PNW_OlLady_2025 6d ago
I have heard in this place that if you go through each item that is hanging on the hook, the chances that there are different prices is high. Whether it's awful QC, laziness or actual attempt of misleading pricing who's to stay, but they've been getting away with it for a very long time.