Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site lanl-a.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxl!ihnp4!houxm!vax135!cornell!uw-beaver!tektronix!hplabs!hao!seismo!cmcl2!lanl-a!crs 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 Article-I.D.: lanl-a.13321 Posted: Thu Sep 13 09:27:42 1984 Date-Received: Tue, 25-Sep-84 01:55:59 EDT References: <3123@rabbit.UUCP> Organization: Los Alamos National Laboratory Lines: 18 ***** > ...posted near each cash register is a sign proclaiming that if an > item scans higher than the posted price, it's free. ***** 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