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Dollar-stores overcharge customers while promising low prices

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510 points bookofjoe | 1 comments | 07 Dec 25 14:37 UTC | HN request time: 0.572s | 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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1. gruez ◴[07 Dec 25 20:48 UTC] No.46185011[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.

Source? What happens if somebody stuck a $1 sticker on a ps5? Does that mean you can walk out paying $1 for it, even if the cashier corrects you? What if it's not something absurd but a plausible good deal, like $50 off?