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Some states have laws [1] to this effect: > The store must honor the price in the advertisement, even if it is wrong, until they correct the misrepresentation
by civilized 5y ago
Some states have laws [1] to this effect:
> The store must honor the price in the advertisement, even if it is wrong, until they correct the misrepresentation using the same advertising medium and/or by corrective signs in the store.
> Items sold in a grocery store must ring up at the lowest displayed price. Food stores that are in the waiver program must offer consumers one of the items free if it scans higher than the lowest advertised price.
[1] https://www.mass.gov/guides/a-massachusetts-consumer-guide-to-shopping-rights https://www.mass.gov/guides/a-massachusetts-consumer-guide-t...
- orangepanda 5y agoHow does that work with sales tax not being included in the displayed price?
- civilized 5y agoThe website is an explanation of the law, not the actual law itself. I'm sure the actual law does not require sales tax to be included in the displayed price.
- stonemetal12 5y agoSince he specifically mentions grocery stores, groceries aren't taxed.
- mminer237 5y agoTIL that's a thing. Illinois has a lower tax rate on groceries but still taxes them. Also, grocery stores sell a lot more than just groceries.
- stonemetal12 5y agoCool, TIL grocery taxes exist.
- bombcar 5y agoState sales tax laws are all over the place; in many states the general idea is "don't tax necessities" which leads to silly things like buying a sandwich is tax free (like socks in Minnesota), but if you ask them to warm up the sandwich BEFORE sale it is taxed. If you ask them to warm up YOUR sandwich after sale, it's tax-free.
- irrational 5y agoOr it could be a state like Oregon where there is no sales tax on anything.
- andrewf 5y agoIs this actually a misrepresentation? Does anybody reading the sign not understand what it's trying to communicate?
- metadat 5y agoThe sign is perpetuating the idiocracy epidemic.
- simulate-me 5y agoWhich interpretation is idiotic? Being able to take in complex signals from the environment and form an instructive opinion is the foundation of human ingenuity. Given that the bananas obviously aren't on sale for $0.0019, it seems idiotic to me ignore alternative explanations for the sign.
- moate 5y ago>> Given that the bananas obviously aren't on sale for $0.0019, it seems idiotic to me ignore alternative explanations for the sign. "It's a banana Michael. What could it cost, 10 dollars?!" You say "obvious" but I don't think that means what you think that means. Why is it obvious? Why would it be impossible that a store sells bananas at a loss in order to pull people in (what people in sales call a "loss leader")? If you don't buy bananas regularly, why couldn't you assume this is just a great deal? If there were a sign advertising 5 bananas for a penny (or whatever) with no asterisk, fine print, or mention that "terms may apply", I would be livid if I couldn't take advantage of that price.
- simulate-me 5y agoI'm only speaking from my own personal experience, but I've never seen bananas priced at less than 1c each in the grocery store. I've also seen people misplace decimal points frequently. So, based on the thousands of times I've been to dozens of grocery stores, I'm using pattern matching to deduce that almost assuredly it's more likely that a banana listed as costing "0.19c" refers to $0.19 not $0.0019. If you ever encounter a true sub-cent banana in a retail supermarket, feel free to reach out to me and I'll be the first to admit I was wrong.