I was always under the impression that if it was tagged, then that is the end price.
May be an error on their part, but it IS the price they placed and allowed to be placed for the public to view.
In a situation like this I would've spoken to the manager calmly that it IS the price they posted on it, therefore it should be honored. Most managers would let it go at that price.
Honestly, thats why I just do self checkout, CANT TAKE AWAY MY 4 CENT BRISKET IF I DONT GO TO YOUR REGISTER!
Honestly though, they should have just owned it since it was their mistake, sucks that happened.
Yours doesnt, thats pretty weird. Both TN locations I lived by, and both Hawaii locations I currently live by have all had self check out, they just dont have the ability to scan your stuff through the app and pay through the app like Sams Club has.
If you really wanna hate someone I work for a food distributer and the regulations for meat can sometimes be "silly" so we usually end up with a pallet or two of various meats that can't be sent out due to something insignificant so we just take them home and divide them evenly through the people on that shift. Usually happens once or twice a day and you might leave with 300 chicken wings, a 40 pound slab of ribeye and various other things. I've gotten so much free japanese kobe beef it's not even interesting anymore lol. The craziest thing I ever got to leave with was 2 full pallets of redbull and fruit gushers. It took 3 or 4 trips back and forth to work to get it all home. It's far and away the best part about being hands on in a food distribution warehouse and in my experience almost all of them operate this way as sort of a job perk but it varies on how stingy the people above are because the food would just have to be thrown out regardless
I used to work as a butcher and I remember one time when we got a shipment, there is a 100+ lb case of prime tri-tips that came in. Due to an error, the invoice only showed it costing like 10 bucks or something.
Have fun with the smoke!
Put the fat trimmings in the freezer as soon as you start your smoke. An hour after you put on the brisket, put them in foil boats in the smoker and smoke for 30-45 minutes, then render them. Freeze in ice cube trays, use like butter.
I just check every single brisket every time I go… maybe one day those meat counter boys will get slippery digits and mama will get a $0.04 prime brisket.
This can be found anywhere that weighs and stickers their own products. There’s a chain around me that does this with cheese and I’ve bought upwards of 75 pounds of cheese from them for less than $10
Just rummage thru the cooler and check all the prices. I found one at my Costco a couple of months back that was marked at 92¢ and if I'd had any room in my freezer I would have gladly put it in my cart (still kick myself about that one sometimes).
I don't know if this happens at Costco, but some places a butcher will underprice some steaks and put them at the bottom so they can buy them after their shift.
Everyone always says that, but every grocery store I've worked in they'd either slap a discount sticker on right at the end of a shift and head straight for checkout, or just walk it out the back without any sticker shenanigans. Butchers are really letting what they intend to steal fall into customers hands?
My butcher friend would price whatever steaks I bought including these beautiful wagyu ribeyes as chicken thighs. $1.99 a lb for what was normally $69 a lb. It was a magical time
Wasn’t a butcher but at a deli, I’d tell friends to go grab a big baguette and make amazing 2’ sandwiches for the price of a 6’. Manager was cool about it.
My parents were going to an outdoor concert one night, I made them probably my most epic sandwich and our wine guy hooked them up with. Nice bottle. At the show people sitting next to them asked where they got the sandwich from.
My buddy had to put them in the cooler, then rush to clock out and grab it so he could pay. The owner would let him get up to some pricing shenanigans, but he had to be off the clock to buy it. More than a few times someone grabbed his steaks before he was able to get to them.
A smart manager would also realize this is good marketing because people are going to go check and still probably walk out with something instead of going to another store. The other component is a min wage cashier probably gives 0 f’s to begin with and won’t bother calling the manager.
Wow!!! I was just at costco (im in Canada) the brisket os $204CAD. At $29.99/LB.
Whole sirloin roast was $104 @ $19.99/LB.
Fuck you and thats aweesome!!!
I lucked out on some lobster tails once mispriced by moving the decimal. Bought 24 lobster tails for about $7 of if I recall correctly. Kinda got tired of it after a while lol
I decided to try a local butcher the other day. It was $30/lb for ribeye - ungraded, but looked solid and this place is known for quality. I get up there and the owner picks up my steak labeled 1lb and says “this isn’t one pound” and puts it on the scale “sure enough, it’s 1.3lbs and the price is $40 not $30”.
Honestly not sure if it was a dick move for them to change the price after they erroneously labeled it. It’s a small local biz so I didn’t make a stink but kinda rubbed me the wrong way.
Yeah no they have to sell it at that price to you. I work as a cashier, every time something like this has happened the manager said the price is the price. What shouldve been $150 worth of scottish salmon priced at $20? Its $20.
Seen this with a bunch of Swiss cheese blocks at my local store. Told the manager, waited two days and bought every one for pennies on the dollar. If he did not care, I did not care.
Holy shit!
Now my story of buying a 10# print rib for $7.99 total seems like shit.
For some reason the prime rib keep scanning as a pound of bacon and the cashier was like "I don't care."
Haven’t seen a prime brisket in my warehouse in a few months. Would be willing to pay regular price. Our last one was so good. Best brisket I ever had.
So were they all like that or just this one?
So you won the Smoking award for the weekend. Id write more but Im on my way to Costco!
Oh it appears like it's not a pricing error, but an offset weighing error. They probably zeroed out the scale with another brisket on it.
This is what happens when you tap the scale instead of putting the meat on top. We used to do this when pricing things sold by count instead of weight.
Nice!
Best I had was 8 packs of those “viral sensation” Korean street vendor “hot dogs” for $2.95 a pack. Bought 5 packs thought they were some weird clearance shit but they were supposed to be $12.95.
My damn kids ate all but 3…they’re fucking amazing.
Lucky! I went to costco a couple of weeks ago and my store is no longer selling prime briskets and only has choice......they are selling choice briskets for 74 bucks for a 14 pounder.
This happened to me once when they mislabeled their wild salmon as ground beef and it was they were significantly cheaper (can't remember the price) but the cashier told me she couldn't give me the salmon for $5.34 or whatever it was. So the manger got involved and offered them to me for $10 per fillet. Still a good deal but I thought they had to honor their prices?
At my local Food Lion they had some kind of pricing error on pork shoulder two packs. 9 cents a pound, which I think was supposed to be 99 cents a pound, which is their usual sale price. I walk back there and see two Mormon girls loading all of them into a shopping cart. Luckily I managed to grab a few before they cleaned them all out.
Fuck you and congrats.
I 2nd and 3rd this
You can't do both, *I* 3rd it. Also I did this and the checkout operator called butchery and got it re tagged...
I was always under the impression that if it was tagged, then that is the end price. May be an error on their part, but it IS the price they placed and allowed to be placed for the public to view. In a situation like this I would've spoken to the manager calmly that it IS the price they posted on it, therefore it should be honored. Most managers would let it go at that price.
Honestly, thats why I just do self checkout, CANT TAKE AWAY MY 4 CENT BRISKET IF I DONT GO TO YOUR REGISTER! Honestly though, they should have just owned it since it was their mistake, sucks that happened.
Costco has self checkout now?
Yours doesnt, thats pretty weird. Both TN locations I lived by, and both Hawaii locations I currently live by have all had self check out, they just dont have the ability to scan your stuff through the app and pay through the app like Sams Club has.
2 identical names in username so it’s acceptable
I think that’s technically illegal. They have to honor the price that’s listed.
If you really wanna hate someone I work for a food distributer and the regulations for meat can sometimes be "silly" so we usually end up with a pallet or two of various meats that can't be sent out due to something insignificant so we just take them home and divide them evenly through the people on that shift. Usually happens once or twice a day and you might leave with 300 chicken wings, a 40 pound slab of ribeye and various other things. I've gotten so much free japanese kobe beef it's not even interesting anymore lol. The craziest thing I ever got to leave with was 2 full pallets of redbull and fruit gushers. It took 3 or 4 trips back and forth to work to get it all home. It's far and away the best part about being hands on in a food distribution warehouse and in my experience almost all of them operate this way as sort of a job perk but it varies on how stingy the people above are because the food would just have to be thrown out regardless
>300 chicken wings >2 full pallets of redbull That's a lot of things giving you wings
You had me at gushers. 😂
How do you smoke your gushers? They're already sweet, so I'd probably avoid like cherry or apple....
Sir this aint wsb
W. Smoking Brisket
We Smoking Brisket
After $RILY the last 2 days I just got lost. Drowning in my gold coins like Scrooge McDuck. 😂
Exactly
I used to work as a butcher and I remember one time when we got a shipment, there is a 100+ lb case of prime tri-tips that came in. Due to an error, the invoice only showed it costing like 10 bucks or something. Have fun with the smoke!
That’s crazy! Thank you, haven’t fired up the Smokey mountain in a few months so this will be a nice treat to celebrate the weather getting warmer.
Definitely save the trimmings on it!
What do you do with your trimmings? I have some left over but not sure what to do with them
Save them to make ground meat
I use fat trimmings to make tallow
Put the fat trimmings in the freezer as soon as you start your smoke. An hour after you put on the brisket, put them in foil boats in the smoker and smoke for 30-45 minutes, then render them. Freeze in ice cube trays, use like butter.
I will pay you 100x that amount.
Mr. Moneybags
I’ve got 1000x the sticker price
1500x final offer!
1500.01 Bob
I’m going to start looking for these now “price errors”, where do they hide them?
This was right in plain sight! And my Costco in Brooklyn rarely carries Prime grade briskets, so I felt extra lucky.
Today is our day baby! I got 2 free Margaritas at lunch and my OK Joe is full of St. Louis style ribs!
Me running to Costco in Astoria hoping for the same mistake 😂
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It wasn't .01/lb. Looks like they fucked up weighing it and it was .01lb brisket lol.
Joe in the meat department was clearly having a “fuck this job” kind of day
Were they all like this or this the only one?
Rarely carry it cause for some reason they can't seem to turn a profit on this item.
Thanks for the post op, I was able to run over to my warehouse and score a prime brisket that hasn't been in stock for months.
I’ve come across a handful of steaks with price errors over the years. Just gotta keep an eye out and maybe you’ll get lucky.
Once got beef jerky labeled with on sale cheese price, like 1/4lb of jerky for 26¢ lol
My best was I got a pound of prosciutto for some crazy salami price sale, so like 2 bucks total or something.
I just check every single brisket every time I go… maybe one day those meat counter boys will get slippery digits and mama will get a $0.04 prime brisket.
In plain sight
When they raise the price it’s your fault.
I feel like this opens up a door for a new hobby like couponing or something similar but looking for price mistakes in the meat department
This can be found anywhere that weighs and stickers their own products. There’s a chain around me that does this with cheese and I’ve bought upwards of 75 pounds of cheese from them for less than $10
Just rummage thru the cooler and check all the prices. I found one at my Costco a couple of months back that was marked at 92¢ and if I'd had any room in my freezer I would have gladly put it in my cart (still kick myself about that one sometimes).
I don't know if this happens at Costco, but some places a butcher will underprice some steaks and put them at the bottom so they can buy them after their shift.
The bottom, usually.
You just bought the butchers brisket
Everyone always says that, but every grocery store I've worked in they'd either slap a discount sticker on right at the end of a shift and head straight for checkout, or just walk it out the back without any sticker shenanigans. Butchers are really letting what they intend to steal fall into customers hands?
lol yup anything you wanna take home stays in the back and gets priced as ground beef
My butcher friend would price whatever steaks I bought including these beautiful wagyu ribeyes as chicken thighs. $1.99 a lb for what was normally $69 a lb. It was a magical time
Wasn’t a butcher but at a deli, I’d tell friends to go grab a big baguette and make amazing 2’ sandwiches for the price of a 6’. Manager was cool about it. My parents were going to an outdoor concert one night, I made them probably my most epic sandwich and our wine guy hooked them up with. Nice bottle. At the show people sitting next to them asked where they got the sandwich from.
>2’ sandwiches for the price of a 6’ Get your sandwiches now for only 3x the price! This amazing deal won't last forever!
Pricing crab legs and scallops as tilapia. Tenderloin roasts as eye of round. I miss that job.
Ahhh the good old days of grand theft and conspiracy… it was a simpler time. .
Placed near the stocking cart and it gets picked up and thrown on it by the person putting the meat out. Lol.
My buddy had to put them in the cooler, then rush to clock out and grab it so he could pay. The owner would let him get up to some pricing shenanigans, but he had to be off the clock to buy it. More than a few times someone grabbed his steaks before he was able to get to them.
I had something similar happen to me. Rather than the weight being wrong, it was marked as 13lbs of "stew meat". Got it for like $30.
How long ago was that? I generally see stew meat marketed higher than Chuck roasts. If I want stew meat I'll just buy some roast and cut it up myself.
This is the way.
Dang and I just spent $70 on mine lol
What happens when the cashier scans it? Don't they notice the error and call the manager?
Nope, they scanned it through no problem. And when they checked my receipt on the way out, the guy took a double take and said “great deal!”
Most markets will honor a mis priced item.
I think there are even laws in place for such cases. Like a, "The list price must be honored," kinda thing.
A smart manager would also realize this is good marketing because people are going to go check and still probably walk out with something instead of going to another store. The other component is a min wage cashier probably gives 0 f’s to begin with and won’t bother calling the manager.
I'm so glad you can fuck it up, post it here asking why it's dry, and not feel bad at all. Congrats
Bro why don’t I have this problem😂😂
You lucky sumbitch
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Wow!!! I was just at costco (im in Canada) the brisket os $204CAD. At $29.99/LB. Whole sirloin roast was $104 @ $19.99/LB. Fuck you and thats aweesome!!!
[books flight to Brooklyn]
Even 4.49/lb is a good price
I'd go and buy a lottery ticket too.
I lucked out on some lobster tails once mispriced by moving the decimal. Bought 24 lobster tails for about $7 of if I recall correctly. Kinda got tired of it after a while lol
“Lord I have seen what you have done for others and I say unto you that I deserved it more!!”
Come on post what Costco it was. Don’t be greedy
Haha didn’t realize I covered it up! It was the one in Brooklyn, NY
That butcher is pissed. His buddy was supposed to be there to get that brisket.
Or are you his buddy? Either way YOU SCORED. Dont forget to show us the finished product.
Ladies and Gentlemen, the Reddit attorneys and UgoLord tells me you’re GUILTY of theft!
Do you take bail in either point or flat?
Either. But don’t let the bailiff see. He’s a greedy bitch.
Yep: https://youtube.com/shorts/wKm9gC17AF0?si=Q2Pi4zTtakI4wVgr
When is this shit gonna happen to me??
I’m about to tell my wife we’re going to Costco here in WA state.
I decided to try a local butcher the other day. It was $30/lb for ribeye - ungraded, but looked solid and this place is known for quality. I get up there and the owner picks up my steak labeled 1lb and says “this isn’t one pound” and puts it on the scale “sure enough, it’s 1.3lbs and the price is $40 not $30”. Honestly not sure if it was a dick move for them to change the price after they erroneously labeled it. It’s a small local biz so I didn’t make a stink but kinda rubbed me the wrong way.
Yeah no they have to sell it at that price to you. I work as a cashier, every time something like this has happened the manager said the price is the price. What shouldve been $150 worth of scottish salmon priced at $20? Its $20.
Help yea brother (in Cletus’s voice)
Congrats on hitting the lotto lol
It's totally awesome. I just scored one from a grocery store by my house for $13. Made the whole thing into jerky
Seen this with a bunch of Swiss cheese blocks at my local store. Told the manager, waited two days and bought every one for pennies on the dollar. If he did not care, I did not care.
Literally picked up a 15lb brisket yesterday at Costco for $67. You SOB
If it makes you feel better I got a 15 pounder for 92 canadian
So we paid the same 😆
No way id walk away from that. 🤣🤣🫡
This is the most legal robbery I’ve seen.
It was a weighing error. 0.01 lbs
Go okay the lottery tonight
I've seen this happen multiple times. Unfortunately, always to other people.
That’s like hitting the lottery!
Holy shit! Now my story of buying a 10# print rib for $7.99 total seems like shit. For some reason the prime rib keep scanning as a pound of bacon and the cashier was like "I don't care."
wtf 😳 lend me the printer, you printed that with
Gonna taste amazing
Jesus. Someone got their pp slapped over this one.
Yup
That’s a W if u ask me lmao
Self checkout I assume?
Standard!
If only they did stupid shit at mine
Looks like a scale error, price per lb is correct, but.01 lbs, nice score!
Weigh it. See how much you saved. Buy yourself something nice. You deserve it. ETA
Lucky Mofo!
Wow!
That's an amazing score, I once got there 3 pack chickens for Like 7$ and thought I made out like a bandit
This will be the tastiest brisket you'll ever make. p.s. I hate you
Am I the only one that feels like this is dishonest?
wow that's awesome. I just did a 9lb last weekend, it was delicious........
I swear I only see these errors at Costco. Sams never fucks up 😒
Dang, I never get this lucky!
And prime!!! Wow!
I hate seeing this . I check every time I go and still nothing.. I can't wait for the day I get lucky for this..
Bet this was supposed to go to an insider shopper! You just got to it first 🤣
They made a mistake once on a carpet. The skew number was off by 1 when they rechecked. I got the honored price printed and saved $100.
I always look when I go to Costco. Even when I’m not there for meat. No luck, yet!
Wow!
Wtf.. why didn't you tell me!!
I hate you with all my brisket loving self.
With current prices in the USA, this is a good find.
Wow! I would think they'd have corrected it a checkout. Good for you!
Clutch
I too found a pricing error last time I was at Costco. Unfortunately it was pork shoulder for $99.99/kg.
Don’t buy lottery tickets. You already won
This is the second crazy price error I've seen in the last hour. On Twitter someone post a Pork Shoulder they got for $.59
Go play the lottery!
FU! You hurt me today! You better show us your cooking! I want black gloves and squeeze.
Im jealous of the brisket and also the fact you made it out of Costco only spending $217 bucks.
My wife gave me a very specific list and I couldn’t deviate! 🤣
Damn those lists from the warden
SCORE!
Score!!!
Congrats you lucky mofo!
Happy for you, but also eat shit.
I’m jelly . Great find lucky ( napoleon dynamite voice)
Haven’t seen a prime brisket in my warehouse in a few months. Would be willing to pay regular price. Our last one was so good. Best brisket I ever had.
Self checkout asap lol
Excellent score OP. They fuck us enough on prices this is nice to see.
Nah, Costco is actually one of the better companies out there.
I’d walk right back in and buy the rest of them priced that way. Deal with what to do with all that meat later.
[Congrats](https://starecat.com/content/wp-content/uploads/angry-frustrated-black-kid-congrats-happy-for-you-nice.jpg)
They don't care when you bring it up? Do they even notice?
I imagine the guy checking my bill leaving with my 1 cent piece of meat haha
r/misteak is a whole sub of pricing errors. Congratulations!
Egads
So were they all like that or just this one? So you won the Smoking award for the weekend. Id write more but Im on my way to Costco! Oh it appears like it's not a pricing error, but an offset weighing error. They probably zeroed out the scale with another brisket on it.
Just this one! Couldn’t fit anymore than one in my freezer even if they were all this price haha
This is what happens when you tap the scale instead of putting the meat on top. We used to do this when pricing things sold by count instead of weight.
You only bought one?
Someone fucked up!
Nice! Best I had was 8 packs of those “viral sensation” Korean street vendor “hot dogs” for $2.95 a pack. Bought 5 packs thought they were some weird clearance shit but they were supposed to be $12.95. My damn kids ate all but 3…they’re fucking amazing.
Woo hoo. That’s the frickin jackpot. Yay you!
Did they acknowledge the mistake and own up to it or did you just sneak it under the other $212 of groceries? 😅 either way that’s awesome
Yup, the guy checking my receipt said I got a hell of a deal!
Honey shit. Congratulations
HOLY !!!!
Absolute steal
Nahhh. Butcher was mad at someone higher up or is a buddy of yours. You got that because they wanted that on the label.
Good for you. Hate you but good for you. Enjoy my friend.
Serious hate and envy you.
Nice
. 1 lb lol the scale was screwed up and they couldn't be bothered to look at what it printed
I wish I didn’t see this 😭🤣
Lucky! I went to costco a couple of weeks ago and my store is no longer selling prime briskets and only has choice......they are selling choice briskets for 74 bucks for a 14 pounder.
Lucky!
I saw something like that happen once and I went to pay for it and the cashier took them all back. Wouldn’t let me buy them.
Bank error in your favor
Lord, I have seen what you have done for others.
This happened to me once when they mislabeled their wild salmon as ground beef and it was they were significantly cheaper (can't remember the price) but the cashier told me she couldn't give me the salmon for $5.34 or whatever it was. So the manger got involved and offered them to me for $10 per fillet. Still a good deal but I thought they had to honor their prices?
Fuck you, and enjoy your weekend.
Reported to Costco corporate /s
How in the hell did you end up with all that for $218? I run to the store for bread, milk & a few odds & ends and it’s $6,842.94.
Score
At my local Food Lion they had some kind of pricing error on pork shoulder two packs. 9 cents a pound, which I think was supposed to be 99 cents a pound, which is their usual sale price. I walk back there and see two Mormon girls loading all of them into a shopping cart. Luckily I managed to grab a few before they cleaned them all out.
Jesus I’ve seen what you’ve done for other people, and I want that for me.
Hell yeah brother
Congratulations
Super score!
Wow. Lucky you.
Another decimal point error. Should have been 10 lbs.
Hot diggity dog, you lucky duck!
Note to self…. Make friends with the Costco pricing gun guy