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Is a feed that lags sale prices by minutes a problem?
A few minutes is a much smaller problem than a permanent skew, and it is the kind of gap most stores can live with. What matters is the direction of the error and how long it lasts: a feed that is behind during a sale advertises a price you are no longer charging, which is the version that produces a complaint. The fix is the same either way, and it is not a shorter schedule: trigger regeneration on the price change rather than waiting for the next scheduled run.
Why it happens
Agents read whichever source they reached first and treat it as authoritative. There is no reconciliation step, because from outside there is no way to know which of two published numbers is correct.
A quoted price that does not survive to the cart is a specific kind of damage. It reads to the shopper as a bait price, and it teaches the assistant that your quotes are unreliable, which is a harder thing to undo than a missing field.
This comes up at the Compare stage. The full treatment, including how to reproduce it and what to change, is on Feed price and storefront price disagree.
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