So I’m in a local grocery with my wife and a friend, and I say “Hey, I feel like a nice steak tonight”
So we head over to the meat section, and notice packages that contain three very nice boneless steaks, for about 12 bucks a package. So I choose one, and my wife is looking through the others as I turn to head away from the section.
Suddenly, she shoves a second package in my face, and says “Look at the price”
My “Whoo-Hoo!” sounded through the whole store as I took the package of THREE LARGE BONELESS STEAKS priced in error, at 38 CENTS!!
I still can’t believe it… That’s something like 12 cents each…
And that’s all we paid, becasue there’s a law now that states that if an item doesn’t scan properly, it’s free or something along those lines…
38 cents… Gotta love that.
Ummm… are you sure about that? I know that some grocery stores will give you the food item free if it scans incorrectly as a matter of store policy, but I don’t think there is any law that specifies this. When I was a Radio Shack Manager 20 years ago I had a person come up with a grossly mis-priced item, and when I told him the correct price he said that there was a “law” about selling stuff for the price tag. I told him to bring me a copy of the the law and we would see.
We have a law covering items that scan the wrong price. You are legally entitled to 5 times the amount overcharged, with a max of like $5 or $10. They set this up because the state attorney general found that something like 30% of scanned items were overpriced.
I once made $5 on a $1 purchase! Kind of like a screw-up lottery.
I worked as a grocery store cashier for a few years, and I heard tell of the same “law” dozens of times, astro. After speaking with several managers the basic concesuswas that the store was under no obligation to sell it for less than when they paid their distributor.
Locz: It was the Loeb in Lincoln Fields.
The law is called the “Scanning code of practice” I can’t find the exact wording, but apparantly such laws exist elsewhere too.
I don’t expect any business or vending machine in America to accept Canadian coins. But it grinds my gears how no one ever seems to mind giving them out, and change machines spew them with impunity. :mad:
I remember back in the early 80s there was a video game that I discovered took Canadian quarters. As my mom and dad had their own business (they still do) they collected their share of Canadian coinage and often gave it to me since they didn’t like to hand it out with people’s change, and they were either too courteous to tell people not to give them Canadian change, or they were too busy to pay attention to what customers were giving them. In any case, having amassed several dollars worth of Canadian quarters, I found a good use for them and went over to play this game. I’m sure the guy whose job it was to collect the money from that game was surprised to see a bunch of Canadian quarters in the coin box.
I’m no expert in Canadian law, but it seems to address only a discrepancy between the price marked and the price scanned. In other words, it appears intended to address the practice of advertising (vis the shelf price) something low, and then having the scanner jack up the price.
In your case, both the marked price and the scanned price were in agreement. It doesn’t seem to me that the law applied, and it further seems that the store would have been justified in pointing out that the price was in error on the package. Of course, the store seems to have chosen to pick up some customer goodwill by honoring their mistake. Good for them.
