I’m kind of pissed after my trip to Ingles tonight. We hit up the grocery store tonight for a few things to get us through the week. Our Angel Food boxes come in Friday, so I didn’t want to go all out on grocery shopping. I need to save room to put up all the Angel Food stuff. Anywho, I took off to Ingles with $35 on my debit card and a list of a few things we need.

I always walk around the store and add up everything on my cell phone while I’m shopping to make sure I don’t go over budget. Tonight I added things up to roughly $28, but when I checked out it was $34.45. I didn’t think much of it because I normally allow a bit of a buffer because Hubby tends to throw a couple extra things in the buggy without telling me.

When I got home I sat down with my receipt to see what he might have bought that was extra. He didn’t get anything extra at all. Instead, the prices on my receipt didn’t match up with the prices advertised in the store. They do, however, match up with the prices in the weekly ads listed online, so that tells me the store clerks haven’t changed over the pricing signs yet or they were printed wrong. Considering there was a price difference on about 5 items I bought I’m guessing they haven’t changed the signs.

For instance, I love those baked/mashed potato microwaveable boat things. They’re great for me to eat for lunch since I don’t eat a big lunch anyway. They’re also super quick to fix. Normally I’ll buy 2 or 3 boxes (2 per box) when I hit the store, but this week Mr. Dee’s brand was on sale (according to the sign on the freezer door) at 5 boxes for $4. I went ahead and grabbed 5 boxes. When I checked my receipt I was charged 2 for $4 which is the price they’re listed at for this week. Sunday starts a new sale week, and that’s almost always the day I do my grocery shopping.

I’m more or less pissed off at myself for not checking the prices as we rang them up or before I left the store. I let Hubby run through self checkout while I ran out to the car to grab my debit card that I’d accidentally left in the console, so I didn’t pay any attention. I still should have taken the time to look over the charges before letting him rush me out of the store.

I know it doesn’t seem like a lot, but when it comes down to my grocery bill $4-5 difference is huge for me and my budget, especially when you add it up weekly. Bottom line, I shouldn’t have let Hubby ring it up without checking, but if the prices change on Sunday Ingles shouldn’t be advertising old prices inside the store! I know for a fact if I’d caught the error before I left they would have honored the cheaper price. We’ve had that happen to us before when Milk was advertised as 1.99/gal but the actual sign was supposed to read 1.99/gal with purchase of a certain other product. We caught the mistake, and they gave it to us for the discounted price anyway.

Maybe I should shoot a complaint off to the Ingles franchise asking they check into why the prices aren’t showing correctly in the stores.