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From: crs@lanl-a.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.consumers
Subject: Re: Automatic Overcharging
Message-ID: <13321@lanl-a.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 13-Sep-84 09:27:42 EDT
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Posted: Thu Sep 13 09:27:42 1984
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>  ...posted near each cash register is a sign proclaiming that if an
>  item scans higher than  the posted price, it's free.

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How many of us can remember the posted price of every item on a shopping
list?  It would be interesting (but probably illegal or unethical) to
test this.  Say certain common items are intentionally marked up moderately
compared with the posted price.  Retain records of income from those items.
Give the item free to anyone who challenges the price, again keeping a
record of occurrances.  Then after a period of time, say a month or so
(better yet, a year) analyze the data to see if the vendor made more, less
or the same on those items as would have been the case had the overcharge
not taken place.

Charlie