Is it stealing when a price is marked incorrectly...

poochie

...and you don't point it out? I was at whole foods and I bought a prepacked thing of spareribs--it was 6.5 pounds and it was $34. I figured I could get at least 3 meals out of it and freeze it. I then noticed the price difference with the other packages. the others were 3-4 pounds and were around $29-33. I knew the one I picked up had to be mis-marked but didn't realize how til I got home. The other packs had said $8.40/pound and when I got home I noticed mine said $5.40/pound. Most stores have a policy anyway of giving you an item for the price marked regardless if it is right or wrong. So, was it wrong to not point out the discrepancy before I left the store?

amygdala

Not from WholePaycheck it isn't!?

amygdala

I had a friend in college who used to peel clearance stickers off of things & put them on what she was buying...now that's stealing!

hero

If it's obviously their mistake, they have to honor it. At least, according to Weights and Measures, in Cali they do.

Hooray2005

Eh, not a huge deal IMO, and I likely would have let it go, too.

I've sometimes seen different price per pound on the same item in grocery stores and thought it might be b/c the item was left from a sale that ran the day before then ended, etc. (and they didn't bother to change the price upward b/c the product was "older" than the new stock) - I never look that closely, honestly.  It's also possible they had different prices for different poundages (i.e., buy more, pay a lower per pound rate).

I did once find what seemed to be a 'too good to be true' price on one package of meat and actually asked the butcher if something was wrong with it - he said no, but it had been a special order that wasn't picked up, hence the lower price.