keep in mind this IS Walmart we are talking about. the Hobby section is never in order in most of these stores... i know customers can move stuff around, but when walmart themselves, have tags mismarked, they blame it on the fact, that its a separate business that labels things incorrectly. either way, you pay what the store says the item is...
and then, on a whole different note, there are the people that try to price match combo packs for like a dollar, cause they see something on walfart.com
It's one thing that wal-mart might place the wrong price on the shelf or hook, but if you associate the wrong product with the wrong price tag, that is, the theme deck being $6, then it would make you look like a fool. I thought it was common sense that what ever price tag is on a hook, is the price of whatever is hanging on said hook.
In that case, the prices were not mismarked by wal-mart. It was the poster who I was responding to and one other in this thread who don't know how to associate the price tag with the correct product. I thought it was clearly obvious it was the booster pack below it that was $6, not the theme deck above it.
It wasn't wal-mart's fault that the prices would be mismarked. Most of the time they do it correctly. Over time, things move around because the customers don't remember where they get certain things from, and place it in the wrong place.
I also know that the item is placed where the price tag is, not the price tag being placed where the item is. At least with wal-mart, the price tags would be pre-placed on the hook or shelf, and the employees would place the product on the shelf where the price tag is supposed to be.
If the person who said the theme deck was $6, I would find it hard to imagine if that person worked as a shelf stocker, and placing product in the wrong place.
Lastly, wal-mart does not stock the trading cards. It is some external vendor that comes in. Wal-mart just places the price tags with the UPC codes on them, and the vendor comes in and places the product in the right spot. Then kids come in and mess the aisle all up, which is why you see the wrong product in the wrong place. I don't know what day of the week these vendors stock the shelves, but all I know is that in the morning of that day, the trading card aisle looks organized. On the last day of the week in the evening, heck, even in the evening of the first day, it looks messy.
Then again, there are some wal-marts out there with incompetent employees.
Could you imagine if you tried to price match the theme deck, saying it was $6?
You: The price tag says the this product is $6.
Wal-mart employee: Show me
You go to trading card aisle and show the price tag on the hook.
Wal-mart employee: Sorry sir/ma'am. That is the price for this product. The real price for your product is the one up there, you know, attached to the hook in which all the theme decks are hanging from, the one that says $16.97?
You get embarrassed as a result.
The whole misplaced price tag match thingy for wal-mart only works if you can associate the correct price tag with the correct product. If you say the price is wrong just because you associated one product with the price tag for a different product, walmart would just politely, but secretly, laugh at you.
