Mass has a law stating the lowest advertised price must be honored. (Which includes in store price tags, which are required for grocery items.)
Theres also a sort of bounty system baked in- if an item scans higher, than lowest price, youre entitled to one for free/ 10$ off, setting a ceiling for the discount, (i say one because you dont get to clear out the shelf for free on a miss-mark. But my mom has, for instance, run into a friend at the grocery, who found a missprice, and was telling everyone to grab a jar of pasta sauce before she checked out because its free if you grabbed it before they fix the sign. When we went to check out, there were like 50 people claiming the free jar, and some porridge manager trying to keep up with the discounts.
Theres also a hefty punishment for not honoring that Freebie. Punishment can iirc include up to 30 in jail for staff who refused. The investigation is probably the worst though- weights and measures can and apparently will shut down a groccer for up 30 days to investigate for refusing to honor the missmark.
So here, I dont think youd see a store trying to use dynamic pricing as a short term thing (probably reset the price daily before opening though) The risk of someone documenting the price change with their phone would likely outweigh the reward of anything shorter term.
As to the flipper scenario, seems like a bad idea- the store would most likely be able to pull up logs from their price changing systems, proving they never gave that price, leaving you having just tried to defraud a government agency with your report.
You’d be better off forging a price tag, photographing it in situ at an analog store, then getting rid of it. Less direct evidence of you commiting fraud.
Seems like a high risk low reward crime. Defrauding the government / hacking charges for at max $10s
Mass has a law stating the lowest advertised price must be honored. (Which includes in store price tags, which are required for grocery items.)
Theres also a sort of bounty system baked in- if an item scans higher, than lowest price, youre entitled to one for free/ 10$ off, setting a ceiling for the discount, (i say one because you dont get to clear out the shelf for free on a miss-mark. But my mom has, for instance, run into a friend at the grocery, who found a missprice, and was telling everyone to grab a jar of pasta sauce before she checked out because its free if you grabbed it before they fix the sign. When we went to check out, there were like 50 people claiming the free jar, and some porridge manager trying to keep up with the discounts.
Theres also a hefty punishment for not honoring that Freebie. Punishment can iirc include up to 30 in jail for staff who refused. The investigation is probably the worst though- weights and measures can and apparently will shut down a groccer for up 30 days to investigate for refusing to honor the missmark.
So here, I dont think youd see a store trying to use dynamic pricing as a short term thing (probably reset the price daily before opening though) The risk of someone documenting the price change with their phone would likely outweigh the reward of anything shorter term.
As to the flipper scenario, seems like a bad idea- the store would most likely be able to pull up logs from their price changing systems, proving they never gave that price, leaving you having just tried to defraud a government agency with your report.
You’d be better off forging a price tag, photographing it in situ at an analog store, then getting rid of it. Less direct evidence of you commiting fraud.
Seems like a high risk low reward crime. Defrauding the government / hacking charges for at max $10s