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["TradingPostPaul" <tradingpost@riseup.net>]

I have to differ. All the "mistakes" are overcharges. NEVER undercharges. I
repeat: they are ALWAYS in the groceries' favor. I could count at least a
hundred times I've seen this happen at various groceries. No, it is not
malice; it is company policy and it's common across several grocery chains.
Our local Trader Joe's is an absolute exception. YMMD. 

paul tradingpost@lobo.net

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On 12/5/2007 at 12:54 PM yarrow@sfo.com wrote:

>No, it's not a scam. They're human. It's a big problem for most 
>stores to get all the prices correct, especially if they change 
>prices frequently. I always pay attention to the displayed price, and 
>I usually don't buy too much at once, so as long as I'm paying 
>attention at the register, I almost always catch the mistakes. How 
>they handle it depends a lot on the individuals at the store.
>
>Since I never shop at any of the -marts and go to Trader Joe's weekly 
>for a few things at a time, I get charged the wrong price for 
>something almost every time I shop at TJ's and buy anything other 
>than my usual items. Typically I tell them no, it's a much lower 
>price on the shelf, they say no, this is the correct price because 
>it's in the computer, I say no it's not, they sigh and go to the 
>shelf and bring back the placard from the shelf that has the price I 
>remembered, and they grudgingly charge me the price that was 
>displayed. It sometimes happens in the locally owned groceries, but 
>not as much. At Whole Foods, sometimes they take my word for it and 
>sometimes they stick with what the computer says (which, when I go 
>back to check the shelves, is usually because the product was not 
>shelved with the correct sign).
>
>My rule of thumb is
>"Never attribute to malice what can be attributed to stupidity, 
>oversight, forgetfulness or other mindlessness."
>  and its corollary, Grey's Law, to keep in mind for one's own slips:
>  "Any sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from 
>malice."  (with apologies to Asimov)
>
>At 10:36 AM -0700 12/5/07, TradingPostPaul wrote:
>>Good for you. Everybody should be so persistent.
>>snip