When you go to a fast food restaurant and place your order in the drive-thru, there is room for error. Since we do have humans punching-in your order, it may not be correct when you get it. I have even seen sometimes, where the price on the board outside, doesn’t match up with the price they’re charging at the pay window. You know the cash register has been programmed to charge a certain amount, so chances are the sign outside needs to be updated.
It’s a little different in the grocery stores and it’s getting harder and harder to see what their prices are for certain food items. I guess they don’t feel like they need a price on each item, since the cashier uses a barcode scanner to get your grocery bill total. This isn’t just one grocery store, but I see this in a lot of grocery stores, where the cashier relies on tech gadgets for the prices. It can be difficult for us (the customers) to determine our budget in the store, when each item doesn’t have a price on it.
I remember in the old days where you could find an individual price tag on each individual item in a store. The big chains have tried to reduce costs and now just use one shelf price to show customers the prices, but if this shelf price goes missing, it can be difficult to determine what the price is. Back in the old days, if a price was missing on one food item, we could just pick up another one, to see what the price was for it. This isn’t the case anymore with the shelf pricing we see in most grocery or department stores. I do like the stores that put the barcode scanners in the aisles, so customers can scan their own items before they take them to the check-out line. As long as there is one nearby and you don’t have to walk a country mile to find one. I believe if stores want to stick with their shelf pricing techniques, they are going to have to provide customers with the same scanners they give to their cashiers.