Target Short-changing Shoppers

We couponers have known this for a while now.
Especially, if we are regular readers of the money-saving site, jillcataldo.com.

Now, the Chicago Tribune has picked up the story!
Maybe there will be some change forthcoming.
Get it, change? nevermind...

Excerpt:

Target, the mass merchandiser with about 1,750 stores nationwide, for months has been systematically shortchanging its customers who use certain manufacturer coupons. Target checkout registers have been crediting shoppers for a fraction of some coupons’ face value.

Target is calling it a computer glitch. Avid coupon users are calling it an outrage.

“It’s just a mess. It makes me not want to go there,” said Caroline Ilardo of Harwood Heights. On Wednesday morning, her $1.50 coupon for two packs of women’s feminine-hygiene products was reduced by the register to $1.02 at the Target store in Norridge. “You really have to watch the registers, and for people who don’t, they don’t know they’re getting ripped off.

“I think this is a serious issue that a lot of people aren’t aware of.”

For more info, read the full story by Gregory Karp of Chicago Breaking Business.