Aldi

I recently returned a cooking thermometer that I purchased just before Thanksgiving for the sale price of $9.99 such a bargain or so I thought. The first time I used it was for Christmas roasting a 17 lb Turkey at 350 degrees well it seemed to be working well at the begining I was checking the temp every 30 minutes approximately.well an hour into the roasting the temp was 100 degrees which I thought was kinda high that soon so I returned in 15 minutes and it was reading HHH for which the booklet that came with it had no definition for codes
So I tried to get it to work by disconnecting and reconnecting the thermometer,it didn’t work I turned it on and off same result so I tried contacting the company the next day through both the internet and by phone and the internet wasn’t connecting and the phone number was just taking messages which my calls were never returned.So I returned to Aldis with everything but the receipt.I went inside and was told that I could get my refund at any checkout ,I thought great I’ll get my stuff that I needed and get my refund when I check out.Well at the checkout The cashier whose name was James tells me that I can only get back 5.56 what the machine scanned so I asked but I bought it for 9.99 which was the sale price which is all I wanted, so how could the regular price be lower then the sale price he answered with I can only give you the scanned price without a receipt now I didn’t understand cause the the package had aldi info on the back of it so it wasn’t from another store and I wasn’t trying to rip them off so I took the 5.56 and to top it off the cashier told me that he needed the cart back when I finished with it ,this a cart that I put a quarter deposit for so I told him and he got a little nasty about it and said " it’s ok you can have it “ as if I was trying to rip him off for the cart so I guess I hand carried a gallon milk and a half-gallon of milk and grapes and other products.so in essence that tells me that they almost doubled the price of the thermometer and put it on sale , then they reduced the price on the return of the of the product which means they made almost 7.00 dollars on garbage that didn’t work.SO SAVE YOUR RECIEPTS OR YOU WILL LOSE This occurred on Dec 29th