the bottles were on sale, but the computer rang up the wrong price, so the Consumer Scanning Code of Practice kicked in, which meant I got one bottle for free and the other at the sale price
@Jez Yes, but that's only because they haven't finished yet. Eventually every possible English sentence will be on a spam filter blacklist.
@Cerberus That grocery store, and many others, have a posted code of practice, where if an item scans at the wrong price, you get the first one free (up to $10 off) and the rest at the posted price.
I've played that to my advantage, where my wife discovered a desirable product had the wrong price, and then I went and bought another one and went to a different cashier and got it for free.
@Cerberus why what? why don't you have it? or why do we?
I suspect we have it because the industry wants to put forth a nice-looking customer-focused face to prevent further government intrusion into pricing/scanning practices. Or maybe it's an example of them actually doing something nice because it's nice.
@Cerberus Well, they are prohibited by law from doing so. But I suppose they might try to get away with it?
Possibly this code of practice is forced on the stores to increase the chances that customers will notice and report this problem (and also to force recording of price overrides and free items) .
Sometimes a corporation's policies might be customer-friendly but the actual staff are not.
So you have situations like convenience stores where there is a posted sign that says "if you don't get a receipt, your purchases are free"
That is meant to enlist customer aid in preventing employee theft.
@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 Of course it would be a kind of fraud in any jurisdiction. But I am not aware of this ever happening here on purpose; if they did that, it would not go unnoticed or unpunished.
@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 Hmm that is a reason I can understand, because I imagine employee theft could be an actual problem.
@Cerberus If it happened chain-wide, it would be noticed. If it happened in one store, from time to time, on only some items, it might never be noticed.
@Cerberus Here, the cashier only intervenes if the product has a discount sticker. But every week there are items that are on sale; those have their prices changed in the computer and shelf-stickers and other signage in the store applied by humans.
@Cerberus When I am buying $200 in groceries, and also bagging my own (because no stores bag them for you anymore) I certainly am not watching the cashier scan every item and checking that it's the exact price the promised me, if I can even recall the prices.
@Cerberus That is the idea, but there is nothing stopping from a store leaving the "sale" sticker up longer than the sale actually lasts.
I see the 35% logo next to products that have it on the screen as she is scanning my products. May not in shops that still have older cash registers. But then I can see it on the receipt.
@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 Oh, sure, that is possible. But then lots of people will complain, and there will be queues at the special counter where you can get your manual discount.
And given the number of times I've found glaring mistakes at the big grocery chain I shop at, I have zero doubt that they could do this as a scam if they wanted to.
the medicine is sold in the store's pharmacy, or just on the shelf like regular stuff. Cigarettes, they sell in a special boutique downstairs, I think.
So anyway, perhaps there is something different about Canadian shops that organised fraud more like? Because it doesn't seem to happen here even though we don't have that rule of yours.
I think the rule is in place to help customers find mistakes and keep managers honest. Otherwise they might try to boost sales of certain items or make extra money which could boost their performance metrics.
But I don't know how much of a problem it would be if there were no rule.
Anyway, we have stores here that are constantly advertising a sale. The "sale" is on all the time, so it's really their regular price, but the present an artificial price as the regular price, even though nobody would ever pay that.
Or this one toy store: they have a sale on all regular-priced lego. But it turns out that all the lego in the store is already marked up past MSRP, then discounted TO the MSRP, and so nothing is really on sale.
Outside the Internet, I wish some companies would have shorter existences!
Like trolls and monopolists.
> The telegraph line connecting Paris with the rest of France had been cut by the Germans on September 27. On October 6, Leon Gambetta, the Minister of Defense of the Government of National Defense, departed the city by balloon to try to organize national resistance against the Germans.
Example: in studying Canadian history, we touch on the war of 1812. But we never learned that it ended here mainly because the Napoleonic wars ended in Europe at the same time.