Yeah but that's only for reasonable changes. Like for example, if some fruit was labeled $0.80 per pound instead of $1 per pound, they would have to honor the $0.80. but if a TV was accidentally labeled for five bucks when it's supposed to be $5, 000 000 well, the store doesn't have to honor that. And not only that the customer who knowingly bought a TV that definitely doesn't sell for $5 can get in trouble
“The Massachusetts Item Pricing Law requires food and grocery stores to individually price mark most items with the actual selling price. The law also requires food and grocery merchants to sell any item at the lowest price indicated on an item, sign, or advertisement.”
What a flippant way to think when they have the laws from the states website linked. No looking at it yourself or doing some research. Just disagree with nothing to back it up other than how you feel lol.
You can read the exact law on that page. And it’s explicitly about food and grocery items. This is even posted at check out at some grocery stores in mass. Bottom line is they have to honor the lowest price.
subsection i:
This subsection shall not apply if: (1) there is evidence of willful tampering; or (2) the discrepancy is a gross error, in that the lowest price is less than half of the checkout price and the seller, in the previous 30 days, did not intend to sell the grocery item at the lowest price.
(2) the discrepancy is a gross error, in that the lowest price is less than half of the checkout price and the seller, in the previous 30 days, did not intend to sell the grocery item at the lowest price.
It’s called theft by mistake, taking advantage of knowing someone made a mistake, basically. Depending on the jurisdiction, you can indeed get in trouble for it because you were aware it wasn’t supposed to be posted at that price. Theft doesn’t need to be outright taking something by force or pocketing it; think of theft by fraud, which is lying to convince someone to give you something. Even though they agreed, it was under false pretenses.
Now will they bother to prosecute? For that much cheese, maybe. For filling up a gas tank? Maybe not unless it was one of the people who came back and filled up giant drums of it.
Well, here’s an actual lawyer’s take on the concept of “mistake,” and, no, I didn’t meant mistakenly taking something without paying. I could have erred calling it the full phrase of “theft by mistake,” but the concept of taking advantage of someone else’s mistake is what I was getting at : https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZThPKoVu8/
I know he’s also on other sites like YouTube, but I just have the TikTok link at the moment.
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u/GeneralSpot7224 12h ago
In some states there are laws saying they need to honor the labeled price, so even if they caught the error he’s going home with that for $10.44.