That's so nuts, though; they've done it for me before. Even at Squirrel Hill GE, which is the notoriously most slipshod, antagonistic GE. If they just outright stopped fixing their own errors, they can get fucked.

They should have checked where they were shelved, and then given them to you for the listed price.

1 lb. last I checked.

People don't usually trust "common sense" when it comes to labels and their health or lifestyle. A pack of spaghetti that's just made of durum semolina is still gonna be labeled Vegan, just in case. That's how it is, for peace of mind.

EDIT: And part of it is because large corporations or shared facilities often share equipment to make wildly different things. It is indeed possible that apples run across a gluten-dusted conveyor belt, somewhere.

There is absolutely no money in running an obvious and public scam involving simple math. One part of the operation sets the unit price, and another sets the sale prices, and sometimes there's a disconnect. It's a large operation; it happens a lot. You'll even see signs at Target that say like YOU SAVE -10 CENTS. It's automated and can be undone when they catch it.

Clown them all you want, but saying it's some kind of intentional scam and not an obvious error is ridiculous.

The entire gluten-free industry labels products like this. It's so people with celiac disease know for sure. When there's no danger of cross-contam (because, no, they don't make donuts there), they label it. And when your oats (which grow without gluten) are processed on a cross-contam machine, they don't label GF.

I'm 100% certain they will undo this the moment someone tells them about it, and you won't have to pay the 2 cents.

They can be processed on cross-contaminated equipment; this is them saying that the equipment is also kept gluten-free.

I mean just tell CS and they should get it handled. This is obviously a mistake somewhere down the line. It happens at every store. Funny, eyerolling*, sure, but stores just don't try to dupe you on purpose.

EDIT: Autocorrect turned "eyerolling" into "trolling" for some reason

EDIT 2: . . . I am begging someone in Pittsburgh to know how the POS system of a grocery store functions, instead of assuming they actually think you're stupid enough to randomly dupe out of an extra two cents on some random fake sale.

Honestly, way more people use Google for reviews than Yelp anymore. Yelp is kind of a forgotten wasteland, now. I wouldn't worry, especially if the quality is as good as Squirrel Hill. It'll do fine.

Reading the Post-Gazette these days is what I imagine watching your loved one turn into a Body Snatcher zombie is like.

People we would like better can't currently win statewide elections in this backward-ass state.

I think that's exactly what they were saying. Unless you're implying you can care when you feel valued but not paid, but I don't think so.

Haha, thank you.

And thanks for bringing up Gimbel's. It closed before I was born, too, but my grandma loved to talk about it. She said she used to pay her Gimbel's bill (before you used the same credit card everywhere, they had their own charge account) with a check, and they'd shove it into a vacuum tube and physically shoot it upstairs. I thought it was wild how this was old tech from the past, but it sounded like The Jetsons future.

The Kaufman's became a Macy's before it closed.

That's a figure of speech. It's like saying they sold everything. "What DIDN'T they sell?!"

I am absolutely living for these other comments that are basically "It was just like these other dead stores you probably don't know."

But yeah, department store. Clothes, housewares, jewelry. Like if you went back in time to before Target sold food, and if people respected the clothing. And add jewelry.