Yesterday I bought beef jerky at Walmart and it rang up $2.50 more than what the shelf said. So when I went to customer service to get MY money back, she said it is happening because they don’t have enough employees to update the shelf stickers. I don’t know how they could not possibly have enough employees, because they sure as hell don’t have any more cashiers, replaced them all with more meh-chines.
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I talked to a guy who lived in Argentina during hyper-inflation.
He said there was no such thing as vending machines, because prices were changing so fast during the day.
If you hired someone to fix your TV or appliances, they would finish the job, then compute how much you owed them based on current rates (after the job vs. before) at that time of the day.
When they paid employees, they paid out in cash and then everyone went immediately to the markets to spend it. If they waited until the next morning, the money was worth 10% to 20% less as food prices increased.
This particular guy was an expert at squeezing pennies until dollars came out of them. He made out pretty well in a hyper-inflation market.