Rona! Sneaky tactics.

[Murray Brown]

I needed a new hand saw. So with the scratch and save I went to Rona. They had a nice saw up high with a big label saying something like "as advertised." I couldn't see it well so I pulled it off. It read $14.99, normally $18.99. Then I go to post the sign back up and find the actual normal price is only $13.96. I made them charge me $13.96 and won 10% off that scratch (I got 25% on an earlier purchase).

Anyone else experience Rona doing this? Reminds me of Sears.

[walkonby]

Good eye!! Nice savings.

[Shwa Girl]

I needed a new hand saw. So with the scratch and save I went to Rona. They had a nice saw up high with a big label saying something like "as advertised." I couldn't see it well so I pulled it off. It read $14.99, normally $18.99. Then I go to post the sign back up and find the actual normal price is only $13.96. I made them charge me $13.96 and won 10% off that scratch (I got 25% on an earlier purchase).

Anyone else experience Rona doing this? Reminds me of Sears.

So. They raised the price for the scratch and save event? Oooh. Sneaky.

[momgoneawol]

I find alot of stores do that. They advertise an amazing sale but have jacked up the prices. Good catch on the price. Congrats on the 25%. I only got the 10% off on my scratch.

[Steffigirl]

IMHO this is absolutely fraudulent! Makes me mad. Congrats on catching them and on your scratch!

[erin9mmm]

I noticed Zellers used to do that too. Some deals are really deals!

[cath007]

No,I dont go at Rona,but in others store I saw that often.When I find a product at 0,49$ in clearance that I love I stock up...because when they realize it is still popular they put them back at regular price or higher....sneaky

[Chantel]

Thanks for the heads up. I'll have to keep a watch out for that.

[cath007]

Same thing again at Maxi yesterday ...something said imbattable an was the same price behind the sticker shelve price....

[beckyrobinson1]

Sneaky snakes!

[JennyFromTheRock]

The worse offenders for this is Sobeys!!! During the B1G1 events!!!!!!

[Natalka]

MY vote for usually doing this is Safeway!

[ottawa]

i noticed it this weekend with SDM. lyson wipes were b1g1 but the price was 3.99.
i know they go on sale for 1.99 all the time

[cookoo]

rcss do this at their no-tax event. very sneaky. i saw something selling at $17 regular price. on the day of no-tax, the price was raised.

[Yusshin]

Same thing again at Maxi yesterday ...something said imbattable an was the same price behind the sticker shelve price....

I think you're misunderstanding what "imbattable" means / stands for.

It's a price. Any price. Not just sale. That the company sells a lot of i.e. pasta sauce, etc. They put those on there to promote their price-matching policy (because popular products = the sign will be seen by more people.)

Even the announcements every 30min in the store says "Here at Maxi, our prices are unbeatable. That's why we'll price match any product at a lower price with proof. Our "imbattable" stickers are displayed throughout the store and on popular ("favourite") products as to promote this..." Then she says something else, but I can't remember lol

So "imbattable" stickers =\= sales price. I had to tell this to another lady who said that behind the sticker, the price was the same. It's not meant to be different. The shelf sticker just highlights the price matching policy ("imbattable") on popular products.

What Rona did was sneaky, because behind it the price was actually lower than their "advertised" but they were selling it higher because of the Scratch & Save event. That's downright low. Maxi uses "imbattable" stickers - again, nothing to do with the flyer or sales - as advertisement for their price matching policy. That's all it means / stands for.

However,

Not every price you see in flyers are "sales" either. A lot of flyer space is actually regular price, but they put them there to show what their regular price is. I see it done at Metro, LoBlaws, Provigo and Food Basics, too (so it's not just Maxi that shows non-sales in their flyers). The majority are, but a handful of items esp. on the later-most pages (for Maxi; it's everywhere in the other stores' flyers) are just regular-priced items.

And I think that's not very nice lol 'cause for me, flyers are to promote lowered prices, but I see a lot of regular-priced items tossed in to fill space at a lot of stores.

Ah, well.