California law requires that a merchant honor the lowest posted price. Even an expired sale tag that is not taken down must be honored, according to Sec. 12024.2 of the Business and Professions Code. If the refusal to honor the price is willful, and the overcharge is more than a dollar, the statute allows for up to a year in county jail in addition to a fine.markerpk wrote:Well, TRU pulled a fast one on me today. Went to the B&M store to pick up series 6 figs for the BOGO. Tag on shelf says 3.49, but still worls out ok after discount I figure, so I spend 30 minutes feeling the bags to find the ones I needed, which was most of them. Check out and they ring up at 3.99! I tell the cashier, she gets the manager, no dice. 3.99 or put them back. Didn't feel like wasting all that time feeling bags so I sucked it up. All I did was pay normal MSRP for them but man, was I burned! That's the last time I fall for that one! Next time TRU has any sort of price discount, I'm confirming price at the register before I waste any time feeling bags. Matter of fact, think I'll only bite on the 2 for 5 or the Buy 2 get 1 free from now on!
I'm not saying you WANT to go around threatening minimum-wage retail clerks with jail time to save fifty cents, but any retail manager in CA who claims not to know this provision of the law is either lying or very poorly trained.