Expert: Peter Gabany - 1/22/2008

Question
Can a business (food store) have a display of goods with a price above it, and when at cash out tell you someone priced it wrong. And refuse to give it to you for the labeled price.

Answer
A store can make up any policy it wants. Whether or not they will retain us as customers is another. Wal-Mart is guilty of this often. The price they have marked on the aisle display is often different than the package - customer beware.

Supposedly there actually is a law that the lowest price is the lowest, but you have got to force the issue in many cases. Also there is a situation that if the store does notify its customers by posting an error say in a flyer ad that they have in fact notified their customer and they do NOT have to honour the advertised price.

I am not a lawyer and my experience and anecdotal evidence speaks here.

Pete