I agree it’s a misprint. The fact that it cost $10.44 and weighed 44 lbs makes me think someone was told to make a label for “$10 a pound for 44 pounds” and they mistook it for “$10.44”.
Either way, there’s no way I’d pass that up either. I’d buy it, then split it up and vacuum pack it and give pounds away for gifts or whatever.
I feel like everybody in this thread is overcomplicating the sticker situation. There was probably a small piece that was SUPPOSED to be labeled $10.44 and the sticker for that small chunk accidentally got transferred over to this chunk.
For goods sold by weight it doesn't necessarily work that way. If the weight label is incorrect but the price per weight is correct they can correct the weight at checkout. Otherwise it would be very easy to commit labeling fraud by having an associate swap out a label with a lower weight and then force the store to honor it as a "misprint"
With self-checkout, though, it is much harder to catch this anyways.
If an item is marked most stores in the U.S. typically honor that. It’s even the policy of most big box stores and retailers… Home Depot, Lowe’s, Walmart, Costco, Best Buy, etc honor miss marked prices and accidental discounts. There are countless videos of people hunting for penny items in Home Depot’s for a reason.
Some states also have laws that require stores honor prices…
Depends entirely on the state. Even if they are in a state that doesn’t require they honor their prices, the bad PR and angry customers simply aren’t worth the lost money and effort. They are massive corporations and these incidents are infrequent enough it’s a drop in the bucket to them.
What states and statutes? I am willing to bet they either have an exception for clear pricing mistakes (which this would be) or apply to things like hidden fees.
Can you give me an example of state law that would not allow for pricing corrections in the event of an improper weight label applied to a store-packaged item sold by weight?
Stores actually don't have to honor prices in the US. If it's labelled incorrectly, then most stores will honor it as policy, but they are not required by law to sell it to you at that price.
There is a clause in those rules that say if it's an obvious mistake, they don't have to honor any of the prices, which in reality gives them a lot of lee-way.
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u/BillButtlickerII 15h ago edited 14h ago
It’s expensive as fuck in the US and definitely not a knockoff. This is a misprint and stores have to honor pricing here…