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This certainly applies to grocery stores in Massachusetts, and is even printed up on an informational placard tacked to the register, so that the customer can e
by phyzome 7y ago
This certainly applies to grocery stores in Massachusetts, and is even printed up on an informational placard tacked to the register, so that the customer can easily read it.
Basically: First item free if under $10, or gets a $10 discount, rest of items of same product at lowest price. Does not apply if lowest price is 50% or lower than the highest price (which seems too high to me, given that there are legitimate sales at that markdown level.)
- dustincoates 7y agoI always assumed that was the store's way of preventing cashiers from overcharging and pocketing the extra, but sure enough: https://blog.mass.gov/consumer/massconsumer/the-price-is-right-the-massachusetts-item-pricing-law/ https://blog.mass.gov/consumer/massconsumer/the-price-is-rig...
- phyzome 7y agoIt's to protect consumers who see what looks like a good price and don't notice the discrepancy. (A friend of mine whose budget is very tight has been caught out by this a few times, and is the one who pointed the law out to me.) For a while, my closest grocery store (part of a local chain) was terrible at keeping pricing information up to date. Occasionally I'd get surprise discounts, but more frequently I'd get charged too much instead. I was going to buy those things anyway, but on the principle of not letting the store screw people over, I started being a stickler about it. And guess what? The store shaped up. (I assume the mechanism was that the increase in the number of price overrides at the register caused a review, and the store manager allocated more employee-hours to keeping prices in order, instead of treating it as an optional task.)