[MisterTea]

> The only problem was most cashiers actually knew all the prices of stuff and paid attention,

Yup. I was in a local super market and saw Tomahawk steaks priced at $4-6 each. It had to be a mistake but I figured I would give it shot and see if they noticed. Cashier looked at the price, did a confused double take and immediately called over the manager. Turns out the decimal point was off by one so my $4.50 tomahawk was really $45. I bought it anyway and it came out great in the oven.

[TeMPOraL]

Did you pay the sticker price or the intended price?

Over here in Poland we have a law that the store must sell you the good for the price it advertised, so in that case they'd be forced to accept $4.50 because of their mistake. May sound too biased in favor of the customer, but before that, the "errors" in price tags were more common.

[mrgoldenbrown]

We have similar rules in the US, but depends on your state. In mine they have to give you the price on at least one of the items but you can't demand they give you 100 of them at the wrong price. Or yes you can demand but they are not required to do so.

[MisterTea]

Intended price. Costly but it was too late as I already had steak on my mind.

[lazide]

In most US states, you have the same rules.

[codethief]

Might have been a marketing strategy. :-)