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Dollar-stores overcharge customers while promising low prices

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510 points bookofjoe | 2 comments | 07 Dec 25 14:37 UTC | HN request time: 0.113s | source
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analog8374 ◴[07 Dec 25 15:33 UTC] No.46182424[source]▶
Happened to me yesterday. Haagendaz ice cream. $4 on the shelf, $5 at the register.
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spwa4 ◴[07 Dec 25 16:22 UTC] No.46182846[source]▶
If it says $4 on the shelf and you pay $4 at the register and walk out with the goods, that's a 100% legal sale and not theft. Not even if it was a mistake on the part of some employee (and it's not the employee's fault either, by the way)
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masfuerte ◴[07 Dec 25 16:38 UTC] No.46182976[source]▶
It literally is the employee's fault but they are not legally liable for it.
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1. spwa4 ◴[07 Dec 25 18:01 UTC] No.46183620[source]▶
An employee is generally only liable if they purposefully sabotage their employer's business. So a mistake doesn't cut it.
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2. potato3732842 ◴[07 Dec 25 20:25 UTC] No.46184815[source]▶
And that's effectively an impossibly high bar in the typical mundane cases though.