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Safeway called out for their fake "sales"

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Safeway called out for their fake "sales"

www.classaction.org

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Qualia: Living Ad-Free and Breaking Away from Dark Patterns, Hidden Fees, and More • 2 months ago

Class Action Says Alberstons, Safeway Wine ‘Member Price’ Sales Are False

www.classaction.org

A class action lawsuit accuses Albertsons of deceptively employing fake strikethrough reference prices for wine.

Finally, some good news! Albertsons and Safeway are being called out for their fake sales. It’s about time.

Hopefully something good for the consumer comes out of this.

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Why does this seem to be limited to wine prices? If the scam works, it works on all products.
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  1•2 months ago
  Same thing I was thinking. Literally every product on the shelf has 2-4 prices attached to it.
  
  “real” price
  
  club price
  
  sale price
  
  app price
  
  I’m happy that at least something is happening now, even if it’s just the wine. Hopefully this is just the beginning.

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