Jul 28
Boycotting Mace Market in Davis, CA
This is Mace Market, located at 2939 Spafford St., Davis, CA (530-750-0178). This market was conveniently located on my route home from work and provided an easy way to pick up a six pack of brew once or twice per week. I had become a regular customer. Sure the balding guy with a mustache wasn’t the friendliest of guys, but he had never ripped me off, and I always chalked his surliness up to the fact that English was probably his second language. No big deal.
No big deal until the guy pulled a sleazy one on me. My wife and I went to the Mace Market so she could get some Mike’s Hard Pomegranite Lemonade. When we walked into the store, my wife noted that Mike’s Hard Lemonades (all flavors) were on sale for $5.99. We picked up a six pack and went to pay. When he scanned the six-pack, it came up over $8.00. My wife, of course, told him that Mike’s Hard Lemonades were on sale for $5.99. He initially ignored her and placed the six pack in a bag. She repeated that this product was on sale. He brushed her off saying, “The price is what it rings up at; I can’t do anything about it.”
You can’t do anything about it? Really? Now we could have gotten all legal-ese about it and explained that his sign represented a definite offer and our walking to the register with the six-pack represented a definite acceptance for purposes of contract formation, but we chose not to. We wanted the six-pack, so we paid the price he told us we had to pay, notwithstanding the discrepancy with the sale price. However, we made a pact that we would not purchase another item from Mace Market out of principle.
So, moral of story: Mace Market lost a faithful purchaser because it wanted to make an extra $2.00 on a single sale. What a poor business decision on their part.
And apparently, I am not the only person who had this experience. Read the reviews for Mace Market on daviswiki.
I should also add that this is the second negative experience I have had at Mace Market. Being the idiot that I am, I left my ATM card at Mace Market after making one of my famous beer purchasers. The next day I learned that someone had fraudulently used my card to the tune of approximately $200. While I have no proof that anyone employed by Mace Market actually used my card, I have my suspicions now, based on how Mace Market handled this recent experience.
Remind me never to piss off Shock-G (or at least not more than I already have lately). I can see the posting: “This is Chocolate’s Revenge (insert picture), address, phone number. He is a douche bag…”
That’s not how a business should treat people. There are too many other options for purchasing beer in Davis to have to accept someone refusing to offer the sale price on an item. Can you imagine ever having that experience at the Nugget? At the Nugget, they’d apologize profusely, give you light oral, and then give you the six-pack for 50% off the sale price.
And nobody’s pissed off at Chocolate.
Just to clarify - I think you’re exactly right, that’s not how a business should treat people. Instead of stopping there on the way home now, you’ll probably go to Nuggett or AM/PM. That’s their loss - and all for $2 (sounds like a John Cusack movie). Anyway, I just thought it was funny you included their picture, address, phone number, and davis wiki link. There’s no better way to start a boycott.
I was so pissed. There was a sign in the front window, and at least one if not two stickers on the fridge door indicating Mikes HL on sale for $5.99.
We paid about $8.70 out the door. The worst part was the employee’s blantant “selective hearing” when I asked him about the price. Twice. Finally my better half chimed in and only then did they guy respond, with a “that is the price it scanned for.” I do not even think he apologized, AND he made sure to swipe the credit card BEFORE he responded to us.
NO MORE MACE MARKET, no matter how convenient it is!!
you know, if this store was in one of the not-so-great areas in downtown Sac, I’d have more empathy with the store owner. A lot of them have to deal with homeless people or druggies trying to negotiate them down on the price of, well, everything. I don’t know how many times I’ve waited in the store while some guy (or guys) in front of me spill all their change on the counter and try to convince the cashier to give them a forty for $1 in assorted nickles and dimes. And oh, one button.