“Check your receipts”: Unlikely glitch leads to free meat for happy shopper
<p>A Coles customer has confirmed customers should check their receipts before leaving the store.</p>
<p>Shopper Wendi from a popular Facebook group has revealed how she scored a large pack of porterhouse steak for free after taking a closer look at her docket.</p>
<p>The original posted said that when she picked up the meat from the display, she noticed that it had been marked down from $34 to $28 a kilo.</p>
<p>However, when the steak was scanned at the register, Wendi was charged the full price instead of a reduced price.</p>
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<p>After paying for her item, Wendi checked her docket and realised the mistake.</p>
<p>She was able to get the product for free due to Cole’s “Promise on Price Scanning”.</p>
<p>The Coles policy states that “If a single item scans at a higher price than the advertised or ticketed shelf price for that item, we will give you that item FREE.”</p>
<p>Wendi said it pays to be careful when it comes to receipts.</p>
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<p>“Check your dockets, folks,” she wrote on the <a rel="noopener" href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/2111126989104914" target="_blank">Markdown Madness Australia</a> page.</p>
<p>Other shoppers went on to echo Wendi’s words of advice.</p>
<p>“Just yesterday I got English muffins from a bin that said $2.50 and when I got home I see I was charged $5! So annoying,” said one.</p>
<p>Added wrote: “Yep always check dockets, it’s crazy how many times you get over charged. At least one item each shop seems to get scanned wrong.”</p>
