[coin]

Michigan in the 90s had a similar rule. Customer gets 10x the overcharge (up to $5 max). I can guarantee you they fixed the price immediately.

Where I live there’s no such rule I can tell you no one is correcting the price when I point out that I got overcharged (they usually shrug with “it does that sometimes”).

[jimmydddd]

"It does that sometimes." I guess for some reason the minimum wage cashier was not fully invested in maximizing the customer experience.

[Buttons840]

Somehow the entity exploiting both parties of the exchange is not actually present or accountable for anything that happens in the exchange.

[Rechtsstaat]

See: 'accountability sinks'[1]

[https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41891694]