Like many people trying to save on groceries, I look at all the flyers each Thursday and try to buy the deals. Stores like Save-on-Foods and Freshco have Price Matching policies where you show a competitor's flyer for an advertised item and they'll match the price. This is very helpful as I would otherwise have to drive to several different stores.
I was thrilled when I saw the most recent Co-op flyer that mentioned "price matching" because co-op is conveniently located for me and they have some things I like (compostable plastic bags for example). But reading the terms I was sceptical when it mentioned they price match "select" items. I figured it may exclude things like medicine or whatever so I went in to give it a try. What I learned is absolutely, astoundingly, ridiculous.
Their "price matching" policy is that they only price match items in their OWN FLYER that are labeled with the "price match" logo. That turned out to be a grand total of only 8, that's right EIGHT, items.
When I asked the manager to explain the policy to me she couldn't even do it with a straight face.
What an unbelievably embarrassing policy.