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Originally Posted by gblowfish
"All this because a woman in Frank’s line that day wanted to buy a gallon of the sweet tea. She told Frank a store in a neighboring town had a sale price that Wal-Mart was supposed to match.
She didn’t have the ad, as required, but she didn’t need it with Frank. He’d always made it a point to keep up with prices at other stores, so he let her have it at the sale price.
That got Frank called in and fired after nearly 20 years.
“The bosses said I made up an imaginary price,” he said Thursday.
Frank went to Willow Springs and got an issue of a local paper that showed he was right about the price of tea."
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I could see how that would make you unpopular with anybody whose compensation is tied to store sales or profit.