CLEARANCE

I walked in the and come across clearance stock of Lumaglo energy saver globes. Some where in the boxes and some in a big container, though in the container there was only the spiral ones and the hooks ones where in the box mixed with the spiral ones. I then asked one guy passing by to assist and he said if it doesn't have the sticker I won't pay discounted price and the manager who marked them down left already which confused me and I ended up buying and payed full price. My dispute is how do you put things on clearance in boxes without stickers and tell me I won t get discount because the manager had left already? This was some silly clearance if the manager is not looking after what he marks downs and neglect his stuff placing things at the clearance sport.???