An associate told me the “Call Associate” happens when the discount sticker is scanned instead of the black bar code that is part of the product packaging. Ever since I started scanning the product bar code, I haven’t had that happen.
I should tell you that it is much more efficient to go into a store with the idea of looking for a large number of possible penny deals. The ability to do that will come with time as you notice what has been on clearance for the past few months. If you commit, your brain will literally be loaded with lots of possibly useless information………BUT, once in awhile it will pay off.
congrats! was this the 12 inch light? i remember seeing them at the 3 price which was around 12 bucks. i am a cheapskate so thought i would wait for the penny deal
you can say that again… and again i once went back to 3 wrong stores before hitting the right one trying to remember where i had seen a likely to be missed stash of armormax 3Ds when they went to a penny
Actually the “00” price is the very first stage of a wind down schedule, IF there is a date on the yellow clearance tag. This tool probably had a 6 price and a 3 price too. It’s just that this one tool never had the tag price updated.
The first clue to me was that it was laying horizontally across a couple of the peg board hooks in the tool section. When I saw the “00” and the date I figured it was old enough.
And it was.
Right now, dates toward the end of February are turning to a penny. Keep an eye on that 100W car inverter, it is just about old enough (03/01/16)
See, an example of maybe useless information swimming around in my head that I spoke about in my previous post
Thanks for the info. That is what happened. I checked some prices today on some LED bulbs and the first time I check on one bulb I did scan the orange code and got the “Call Associate” but I did it again on a different copy of the same item w/o the clearance sticker and got the price w/o the warning.
hmm… i saw a dremel idea builder 3d printer on the clearance rack today - no price as usual at this place. don’t know if it is there by mistake. will probably price scan one of these days.