Canada @lemmy.ca rekabis @lemmy.ca 11 mo. ago

Galen West’s strategy: “Lookie dem low prices… 2L soda for 68¢… woweee!!1!” REALITY: Zero stock, ZERO SHIPMENTS for ENTIRE SALE.

This is why Galen West is a card-carrying member of the Parasite Class.

And yes, I confirmed the no-shipments, zero-stock with the store manager. 5 days and counting with no stock so far, when the sale started there was maybe 12-24 bottles for 128,000 residents in the city.

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Isn't there an ongoing strike at Loblaws distribution centres? I legitimately can't find any news as to whether it ended, but I also can't find very much news on other strikes that I'm pretty sure did get resolved. Fuck Loblaws, and fuck Google's ever worsening search capabilities.
- Isn't there an ongoing strike at Loblaws distribution centres?
  
  Sounds like a great time to issue a sale on products that you know you won't have to actually sell at the discounted price, and then blame it on the union.
  
  Do stores do rain checks there if you ask for them?
  
  I've seen it at some stores in the US in the past, but not something that would be advertised, just some people getting a rain check if they specifically ask for it.
- Maybe they resolved it the same way they did a year ago: https://calgary.ctvnews.ca/layoff-notices-served-to-nearly-all-unionized-workers-at-calgary-loblaw-distribution-centre-union-1.6162044
  
  Not sure about in this instance, but I usually find duck duck go is better than google now.
  
  If they're so concerned about cost savings, they should consider firing Galen Weston. The amount of money wasted on paying him is astronomical. Pack his box and show him the door. He won't be missed by anybody.
  
  Yeah, I could only find old articles about resolutions, or the more recent articles from a month ago when it started. I'm not sure anymore if this is Google's fault - it seemingly hasn't been reported on since it started. Too much news about strikes might give the population too many ideas.
Not that I’m disagreeing with your anger, but I feel like that much emotion at least warrants using the person’s correct name.
- Getting the name wrong is peak dismissiveness
  
  Galen “no name” whatever
I saw this kind of behavior in many places.

We had a LIDL discount store on the other side of the road in my old location. One day they offered a top-of-the-pop GFX card (25 years ago!) for an incredibly low price. Before opening times, there was a queue from the door across the parking lot to the street. I was there when the shop opened (not in the queue, just on the way to my car), and people stormed in. I saw people jumping over the checkouts to bypass the crowd. Later that day, I talked with a cashier. They had had serious problems that morning, because their allotment had been a total of three cards.

Many years later, a superstore offered a high-priced LEGO set for a dead cheap price. So I was there when the doors opened, ran towards the toy aisle, grabbed one of the two sets on display. I thought for a moment to buy the other one, too, but some other guy just took it. At the checkout I asked if they maybe had another one in stock, but they admitted they only had gotten those two sets.
Never known someone to care about pop this much
- It’s not about the soda, it’s about the corporate hypocrisy, gratuitously fake goodwill, rampant greed, and bait-and-switching of hard-working Canadians.
  
  If you’re going to be defending Galen West in any way, I strongly suggest you find elsewhere to be licking those boots.
  
  I've found most stores stock very minimal amounts of whatever gets I to the flyer as a pretty good deal.
  
  They just do it to trick you into making the trip so you spend your money on the over priced stuff since you're already there.
  
  As an aside, his name is Galen Weston
  
  I'm quite certain there's ways to bring attention to your point without sounding absolutely insufferable, hopefully it doesn't continue to elude you.
Get the paper advertising it. Find a competitor that offers price matching or get the store to give you a raincheck.
- PC Cola is a house brand. No-one else carries it.
  
  And the rain cheque limits you to two. I like to use the self-checkout and stock up by making multiple checkouts.
  
  PC brand stuff is sold at like 3 different stores in BC.
the kmart in the town i lived in back in the early 1990s did this all the time...

and since they knew ahead-of-time of upcoming percent or dollar-off promotions, they would jack the shelf price up on those items the week or two before so they could go 'on sale' (and sometimes even at a higher price than the usual regular selling price).

ya. that store was bulldozed a few years later.
Very unfortunate to see.
Rain cheque that shit, son!
- Did. Sale was limit: 2. At least normally I can pile 8 or so into my cart and process them in batches of two, not so much with rain cheques.
  
  My friend, you need to drink less soda
  
  Did you try asking at customer service desk? Back when I worked at one of those stores and dinosaurs roamed the earth, I would have put that through for anyone that came up to the cs desk and asked, as long as they didn't do a mountain that draws attention. Around the time I left though they took away the ability to enter quantity multipliers without an override, and while technically cs reps have override auth they generally aren't allowed to use it on themselves without permission (which would be granted if no other super or cs rep was available in a timely manner). Before that change it was possible (as a cs rep at a cs terminal) to do any number without override as long as the current price wasn't also a limit price which would make it require two for some reason. They also got really annoying about the override logs around the same time.
  
  Edit: I mean asking to have more than the limit at that price on the basis that you would have bought them multiple days, rather than a raincheck.
Yes?

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