A reminder to check your dockets

[BENT_8]

Just thought i'd put this out there as a reminder to be on the ball with purchases during the silly season.

Went into my local Autobarn today for a wheel stud for my BF as the clowns from Bob Jane had cross threaded one of the lock nuts they installed when I had them fit tyres to the BA XR wheels I bought and I snapped it whilst trying to remove the wheel to fit new slotted rotors and pads
Whilst in there I grabbed a can of brake cleaner as they had Motortech cans on special for $5.99 down from $8.99.
Total bill was $26.99 and away I went.
Later in the day I asked my Wife to grab me another can as the first was getting low after doing the first 2 calipers.
She goes to the checkout with it and it rings up at $8.99. She questions the assistant and they correct the amount due to the sale price of $5.99.
When she got home she checked my receipt from the first can and stud and sure enough it says $8.99.

No worries you might think, simple mistake...

This evening I popped in to my local Supercheap for another bottle of Nulon Dot4 brake fluid as they have them on special for $5.39.
I get to the checkout and it rings up $8.99...
I question the assistant and tell him that's incorrect as the sale price is $5.39 to which he agreed and called the manager to check the shelf.
The Manager comes back and says yeah $5.39 and gives him his override code to correct the purchase price on the computer.
The assistant asks wether he wants him to change the purchase price in the computer permanently to reflect the sale price and the Manager says no.

So I'm standing there thinking, how often is this happening, considering its happened twice to one person, on the same day, on different items, in completely different auto retail chains and neither store corrected their computer to reflect the sale price and avoid over charging their customers.

Something smells fishy and it isn't the prawns in the freezer...