Home Depot employees try to stop a guy from buying a 1 penny air conditioner.

If HD doesn't want to sell an item, then they could price it at $9999 instead of penny.

The products at home Depot go down to a penny to alert staff (via daily reports) that it is to be pulled from the shelves.

They will literally rip the product from your hands.

Source: I spent a short time working for home Depot.

Good for him fuck home depot.

So cringe watching people who get paid dirt wages trying to protect some corporations products. I would’ve been like “man what a deal you found!” And helped him to his car lol

I worked in retail. Anything ring up a penny was because it should have been pulled off the shelves. We weren’t allowed to sell it, but we could offer 75-80% off the regular price (because it was probably clearance anyway). It was heavily implied you could get fired or at least reprimanded for selling it to the customer at 0.01 (we didn’t have self checkout). The manager was smart not to escalate, but probably made sure every last one of those items were pulled to the back after this person left.

Its great when someone can game the corporations.

Is this not an invitation to treat rather than a binding contract? I.e., they don't have to honour a misprice do they?

This has got to be the dumbest fucking method to pull product from the shelf. Set the price to a penny? How about you just get a list of SKUs? Now there are going to be even more people out there trying to game this system. And yep, it’s all Home Depot’s fault. Morons.

I use to work for HD... and fuck em.

If I worked there … i didn’t see anything. They don’t get paid that much to care nor will they get a bonus for stopping him.