I Had the first argument over penny deals this evening out of the 2 dozen or so I have bought. Found about 15 of the HDMI cables on the shelf above the rest of the cables. I get one of the small ladders and get them down and go to self checkout. After ringing about 5 of them up, the clerk comes over and sees the price and calls the manager over. In the meantime, I ring the rest of them up, pay and get my receipt.
The manager asks me where I got the cables and I told her on the shelf right above the others. She gets kind of rude and says that they can't sell anything that comes from top stock. I attempt to call Customer Care, but they are closed. The whole time I am trying to reach them (before the recording stating they were closed came on), she keeps repeating "tell them you got it from top stock" over and over loudly. She tried to tell me that top stock is where they normally put RTV items and that customers can't buy anything out of top stock.
I calmly tell her that HD policy states if it is in the customer's cart, they can buy it for a penny. She won't have any of it. In desperation, I finally tell her to keep them and I will just call corporate in the morning. It was getting late and I was an hour and a half from home and I was tired of arguing with her. I didn't want it to escalate into her calling the police, so I just decided to let it go. I did make her give me my money back, mostly out of spite. I paid for my $50.03 Ryobi 40 volt cordless chainsaw and called it a night.
The sad fact is, the same guy who noticed this is the same one who was working SCO a week ago when I bought a garage door opener and the 26 inch Husky bottom box for a penny each. He never said a word then, despite the fact that he had to scan the bottom box with the handheld scanner, walk back to the main computer and input it so it would go to my SCO terminal. I know he had to have seen that the price was a penny.