re: Self-checkout Question and Poll

I have never run into the $1.00 issue at HD but I have bought a good amount of stuff for $.01.

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May 29, 2017 by Xiao 28 Comments

Home Depot Clearance End Cap Section
Home Depot Clearance Section is less shopped, this means more opportunity for deals.

Home Depot’s clearance sections don’t get nearly as much traffic as stores like Walmart or Target. This is understandable as shopper going to Home Depot already know what they’re looking for, and not likely motivated to buy a lighting fixture, or lawn mower blades on clearance.
As a result, you can get Home Depot clearance items at huge discounts. In fact, all clearance items will be priced to 1 cent if it doesn’t sell at end of clearance! I’ll explain below.

First we should understand how Home Depot clearance pricing works:

Home Depot Clearance Pricing Guide:

You can find clearance price items in the isle end-cap clearance sections, sometimes in the isles themselves, or at random places where it doesn’t seem to belong (These have the best chance of being discounted to 1 cent. I’ll explain in a minute).

Home depot decides to clearance items on a national store wide level. When an item or line goes on clearance, it will be discounted at progressively higher percentages over a period of usually 6 to 9 months. So if Home Depot decides to clearance out a light fixture in March, it will initially be discounted 25%, then 50% in June, 75% in September.

Here are the Clearance price codes.

$xx.x6 = 50% off

$xx.x3 = 75% off

75% off Home Depot Clearance Item Pricing
Clearance price of $xx.x3 is discount of 75%. If this item still doesn’t sell, the computer will automatically price it to $0.01 and Home Depot is suppose to take it off the shelf.
If the light fixture hasn’t sold by June at 75% off, the item will be priced at $0.01 in the computer system, and someone at the store is supposed to pull it off the shelf for the item to be destroyed. If you can beat the store employee to find item before it can be pulled off the shelf, you can buy that item for $0.01.

Lot of scammers on this board.

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Self-checkout Question

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I bought 400 pieces of tile at Home Depot. .90 cents a piece. Have 20 cases of 20 at checkout and the clerk scans a single tile and tells me that’ll be .96 cents and had no idea. This kid looked like he needed the job and I didn’t want him to lose it so I told him his error. Could’ve saved $360 or so but at least my grandpa would have been proud of me.

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I did the same thing with floor tile at Home Depot. Exception was it was one of the front store managers who actually scanned it. I walked back into the store and showed her the mistake. She was unbelievably grateful. I knew it was suppose to be around $600 and my total was around $100 because I had other items.

How do I know it isn’t on sale or discounted to get rid of inventory? Who am I to question their prices?

I'd like to tell you that I would just say F-it, pay & leave, but I know the guilt would eat at me until I posted a thread about it on the OT and then headed back to the store tomorrow to settle the difference. So in reality, I'd probably bring it to the attention of the employee in charge of self-checkout.

Now if their employee says that's the price since it rung up that way, I probably would just let it be and not call a manager.

That's what the machine told you to pay, that's what you pay.

Going back and clearing their inventory of that $1 item is the real morality question here. Lot of folk on here white knighting for Corporate America.

Wouldnt be above being the proud owner of 27 cordless grinders

Obviously, if he's honest/has personal integrity, he'd notify a manager. Downvote.

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