Pocket tag change in the market

increases While harassing the public, it also made market workers weary of labels. It has been revealed that the price tags of 50 to 100 products are changed on average every day in the chain markets due to the incessant price hikes.

The employees said that the prices of 15 to 20 products per day in small markets and almost 100 products in medium and large markets change every day. Claiming that labels change regularly 6 days a week except Sunday, employees reported that the real big change happened at the beginning of the month, with labels being changed with a price increase on almost a thousand products at the beginning of the month. . new month.

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Actual inflation, which is not reflected in the Turkish Statistical Institute data, is now followed by label changes in the markets. A market manager for a midsize chain said the rush to change labels, which began just after the election, is still going on. Explaining that the first thing to do in the markets is to change the labels every morning, the market manager said, “Every day, on average, a new price list of 50 to 100 products leaves the center. We reflect the new prices on the cash registers and scales instantly. We then print the new labels in our shop. As a team, we remove the old tags and attach the new tags. Customers who see that we are walking around with price tag stubs in our hands are trying to get rid of price hikes quickly. However, if the client gets rid of one, the other is trapped. “When there are tax increases, sometimes we have to change prices twice a day,” he said.

“We removed the 12 TL label and put 24 TL on it”

Ticket Referring to customers’ reactions to changes in the market, a market employee said: “Customers who come to buy the product they bought the day before at the same price the next day are shocked. If you can’t afford it, please leave the product in the box. We are experiencing increases that reach 100 percent. For example, we changed the label for 5 liters of water, which was 12 lira the day before, to 24 lira the next morning. We see how our salary melts every day, ”he said.

The tag price is valid.

Rapid price changes cause consumers to find higher prices at checkout. While the new price change is reflected instantly at the cash registers via computer, the label change takes time. By law, the lower sticker price must apply to the consumer who purchases the product with the sticker unchanged at the previous price and goes to the register. However, some markets are charging a new price to consumers who don’t know the law.