So what do you do when someone shows you a whole display of items all marked consistently with your stickers, but that comes up as a different price? Does your place do the courtesy of selling it at the marked price?
Varies by state law. Some states, like Michigan, have very rigid scan laws with teeth. Even more so, Quebec.
In Michigan, every item must have the price label on it, and there is a penalty if the checker scans it and over-rings the sticker price. Michigan WalMarts have a green sticker on every item, and the sticker self-destructs when you try to peel it off, to avoid sticker-switching. In Texas, the WalMarts just have the price on the shelf.
Also on the moon size thing…
The moon does NOT appear larger when it is near the horizon. You’ll often hear people comment “wow, look at how big the moon is!” when it is on the horizon.
But it’s just as large when it’s directly overhead.
If you held a ruler out at arms length to measure it’s diameter at both locations it would be the same.
There’s a difference between “do the courtesy of” and “legally have to”.
Do the courtesy of is: These are supposed to be 5 bucks…It’s ringing at 9…See this sign says so…oops! it’s the wrong sale! here it is for 5
Legally have to: This TV is supposed to be $500…it’s ringing at $2000…too bad, the slip says 500 give it to me now
I’ve explained to my mother many times over the decades, with books, diagrams, animations, etc, how the moon’s phases work. She continues to believe that it is the earth’s shadow. She’s an otherwise smart and educated person, but the spatial understanding of it just will not click.
Right, I’m just hoping that the store stands by their label when it’s clear it’s not someone trying to defraud them. If enough places don’t, there oughta be a law!
For something like that I’d probably try to determine if it was an error on the part of one of our employees, which does happen from time to time. If it’s our mistake store policy is that the customer bringing it to our attention gets the lower of the two prices and we send someone to go fix the problem.
And this is why we have both phenomena occurring: Total eclipses of the sun, in which the moon gets between the earth and sun, exactly totally blocking the view of the sun; and total eclipses of the moon, in which the sun passes between the earth and moon, exactly blocking the view of the moon. Very few people seem to understand this. I blame Republican-dominated science education.
That’s because it gets colder as the night gets later, and the ruler shrinks.
No, the Moon DOES appear larger at the horizon.
But, appearances can be deceiving…
I don’t believe that last part is true. Certainly the store does not have the right to use force on anyone for anything. Any more than I can invite someone into my house and then attack them.
What the store can and in fact does do is call the police. The police can instruct the person to leave and use force if necessary to compel the person to obey the officer’s lawful commands. I don’t believe, IANAL, that the police can use force just because the person is not where they should be. The can use force to enforce their lawful order to move.
This was actually repealed in 2011. Items do not have to be manually and individually priced.
How about with bar codes, when the product is marked $6.99 on the shelf but the register rings it at $8.99? I had this happen once at a Liquor store in Texas. The clerk went and looked at the shelf and agreed it was marked $6.99. The manager didn’t care; she refused to sell it for the price marked on the shelf.
I had the opposite happen to me at a Target (also in Texas). The product had no shelf price, no sticker. The register rang it up at $0.00. The clerk called a manager, who refused to sell it for the price it rang up, went to look at the shelf price and came back and said there was no price on the shelf so she “made up” a price for the item.
I refused to pay in either case.
Yes - this is what I meant by “have you removed, by force if necessary.”
I don’t know about other states, but in Wisconsin if the price on the shelf is lower than the scanner reads it at, the store is required, by law, to charge you the lower price. If they refuse, you can report them to your local Department of Weights & Measures who (in my city) checks the local supermarkets out once a year. Any mistakes, they have 30 days to fix, after that it’s a fine. The state shows up from time to time to check them as well, bigger fine from them if they’re wrong. He also checks to make sure items that are on sale (flyers, coupons, website etc) are being charged correctly as well.
http://datcp.wi.gov/uploads/Consumer/pdf/WMScanners171-2.pdf
Also, if you go to 98.08 here you can find the exact statute.
WRT the police removing you, yes, they can. However, you’ll note that the law states the the store must refund you after you’ve purchased the item. If you throw a tantrum before you’ve handed paid for the item, they can toss you out. But once you’ve paid for it, then they legally have to make up the difference to you. Of course, if start going nuts, they can still call the police.
Also, @annie, this is ONLY for stores that use bar code scanners and again, I can’t speak for any jurisdictions outside of Wisconsin.
I don’t think there has been a recorded instance of “the sun passes between the earth and moon”, and I don’t think I want to be here when it does.
All eclipses are “solar”. We call it a solar eclipse when the sun seen from earth is eclipsed by the moon. We call it a lunar eclipse when the sun seen from the moon is eclipsed by the earth and we see the moon in the earth’s shadow. The latter occurs much more often, because the earth is a much larger body to get in the way of the view of the sun.
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I don’t think there’s room.
In my store, if the shelf is marked lower than what it rings up AND the object is on the correct shelf then the lower price applies, because that would be considered our error.
As for the moon and sun being the same apparent size…because the moon’s distance from Earth changes slowly over time, this is only true for the approx. five-million-year period during which sentient beings (humans) happened to evolve.
Some have posited that this is too coincidental to be a coincidence…that, somehow, Australopithecines were inspired to get smart when they beheld a total eclipse (or just beheld two objects of similar size moving around in the sky).
No plausible causal link has been offered, but it is a funny idea.