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Re:Why are people getting worse at “The Price Is Right”? by wil421 on Sunday November 24, 2019 @09:55PM (#21625071)
I found a whole untrimmed beef tenderloin for $0.50 at Costco. The employees refused to let me buy it and ran to the back to get the rest of the incorrectly priced ones out of the cooler.

I was younger and didn’t press the issue. Now that I’m older I would’ve pressed the issue and grabbed the whole cooler but I don’t really want to get someone fired.

Who would you complain to if they refused to let you buy it?

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Re:Why are people getting worse at “The Price Is Right”? by jedberg on Sunday November 24, 2019 @10:15PM (#21625153)
Costco is membership based so they could just revoke your membership.
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Re:Why are people getting worse at “The Price Is Right”? by dwild on Monday November 25, 2019 @10:01AM (#21628642)
I'm not sure testing the law on that would have been something that worth it for them for a bit of meat. The impact on their PR would awful too.
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Re:Why are people getting worse at “The Price Is Right”? by reaperducer on Sunday November 24, 2019 @10:17PM (#21625163)
Who would you complain to if they refused to let you buy it?

Your state attorney general. It usually has a consumer fraud department for this sort of thing. If your city is large enough, there may be an equivalent city office.

For things like gas, it's often the county or state department of weights and measures.

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Re:Why are people getting worse at “The Price Is Right”? by BurningFrog on Monday November 25, 2019 @12:34AM (#21625722)
Insisting on buying at the mistaken price might have been legal, but it would still be a major jerk move.
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Re:Why are people getting worse at “The Price Is Right”? by welly on Monday November 25, 2019 @04:16AM (#21626574)
> but it would still be a major jerk move.

Why? Genuinely curious.

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Re:Why are people getting worse at “The Price Is Right”? by BurningFrog on Monday November 25, 2019 @10:49AM (#21629137)
To me it's basically stealing. The misprinted price is clearly not what the store intended, which means it would not be a consensual transaction.

I'm in turn genuinely curious how this is not obvious.

Would you be comfortable doing the same to someone who accidentally omitted a zero on their used car sales price on Craigslist?

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Re:Why are people getting worse at “The Price Is Right”? by shard on Monday November 25, 2019 @05:32AM (#21626887)
Well, whichever worker accidentally mislabeled it could have a really bad day, depending on how much money the store ended up losing.
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Re:Why are people getting worse at “The Price Is Right”? by welly on Monday November 25, 2019 @06:16AM (#21627083)
That's fair.
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Re:Why are people getting worse at “The Price Is Right”? by MrBuddyCasino on Monday November 25, 2019 @05:08AM (#21626784)
How is this downvoted? Is capitalising on someone else's innocent mistake at all costs really the high road to take here?
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