Meijer Has Deceitful Pricing Practices

I purchased toys for my son's birthday from Meijer's clearance section. The total price was $70. Each toy had a big orange sticker marking it 50% off.

I got home and started peeling the stickers off to wrap the presents. Lo and behold, not a single thing I purchased was actually 50% off...

Each toy had regular white Meijer price tags on them in addition to the orange stickers. I peeled one white tag off that said $29.99, and underneath it found a sticker for $16.99. The toy was clearanced at $15 - clearly not 50% off the original price.

The next toy had a price tag of $10. I peeled it off and found an original price of $7.99. The toy was clearanced at $5.

This was the case with every single toy I purchased. At first I thought there had initially been a mis-price, so the employee had put a new price on it, but after finding these lower prices under every single gift I bought, I know this is truly a deceitful practice.

I don't know if this is illegal, but it sure is immoral, and goes against the integrity that Meijer is so quick to pride itself with.

Shame on Meijer for taking advantage of customers in these tough economic times! I will be certain to take my business elsewhere in the future, and will make sure that everyone I know is aware of these deceitful pricing practices.