On Tue, 25 Mar 2008 16:13:12 +0000, Peter Parry
wrote:
>On Tue, 25 Mar 2008 15:22:59 +0000, MM wrote:
>
>>>You think that selling at less than the displayed price is biased
>>>against the shopper?
>>
>>Eh? This is about price labels showing lower prices than the till
>>price.
>
>The figure of 5% acceptable error rate I quoted was where the price on
>the shelf and price at the till didn't match. It is as much an
>offence under the CPA for the price to be lower as it is for it to be
>higher.
Wrong.
>
>Errors on pricing tend to be both above and below the shelf price in
>more or less equal amounts.
Yes, but only those where the real price is higher are an offence.
That is quite specifically stated in the Act (there are other ways in
which a price can be misleading, but none of them involve
discrepancies between the till price and the indicated price).
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