Not a big scam, but just managed to save few hundred cents yesterday.
I bought some pastries from Highland Farm at Mississauga. The arrangement is such, that you buy from the bakery and pay at the counter. The bakery lady sticks the price-sticker with bar code on the box.
I bought 5 pastries $1.35 each, making it $6.75 in total without taxes. The label showed 7.75. I thought, that with taxes, it might be rounding off to $7.75. But the lady at check out counter, billed me for $8.29.
I explained her that it should be less than what her computer said. She than did the calculation using pen and paper, and figured out that I was correct. Than she asked another lady (perhaps her supervisor) to go and check out the correct price. That supervisor went to bakery, and came back saying that bakery was correct. The lady on the counter than explained her the calculation. So at the end, I was able to pay the correct price.
The most inconvenient situation happens at Indian grocery stores, where the bills does not describe what you are buying. So you just have to rely on your memory, and number of items you bought to prevent any overpayment.
Meghal
Did you claim the money back, it should be free.
As per new Scanning procedure : If price has been scanned or charged wrong, the store will refund the charged price of product or $10 whichever is less. In a nut shell it should be free.
You should have claimed it.
Very true....
Always recheck ur bills...
And we desi's are good at maths & computing...so lets use the plus we are born with. 
More than once i have seen these kind of errors.
I faced a similar situation when i bought some chicken from a factory outlet in Mississauga.
Here I paid at the counter, The price is based on weight ( x$/lbs), and each box (full of chickens) has different weigtht.
At the delivery spot, i didnt check the label, and after going home, i found out that i had got a box with lesser weight.
Didnt wanna go all the way back to exchange it.
But since then, i always recheck the labels to ensure that "WHAT I PAY FOR IS WHAT I GET".
Is that a std. regulation or just a store's policy?
Would be nice to print it out and keep a copy for ready reference.
Lots of times, I have seen where the scanned price was different compared to the marked price.
bison
It is pasted in all stores that are owned by companies and are members of CMA such as Dominion, Loblaws, Sears, Walmart, No Frills, Highland Farms,Shopper Drug Mart and so on. It is a law.
It is called "Scanning Procedure Code of Canada"
Location: Mississauga, near Square
Posted on: 20-02-05 01:01:57
Hi:
The other day I had purchased frozen fish from the Mississauga Chinese market. Each piece of frozen fish is vaccum packed and the price tag attached. However, to my surprise when I went to the counter the lady weighed and charged me more. When I queried, she candidly told me that this is "company's policy". Is this Company policy valid in Canada?
Isaac
Mississauga
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Orginally posted by Desi # 1
It is pasted in all stores that are owned by companies and are members of CMA such as Dominion, Loblaws, Sears, Walmart, No Frills, Highland Farms,Shopper Drug Mart and so on. It is a law.
It is called "Scanning Procedure Code of Canada"
I have heard about this rule - and a couple of times have asked to be compensated for that at Wal Mart and Loblaws, but they said there was no such rule. I tried to google today on the phrase, but could not find any reference to this. Is it possible for you to send us a link where we can find this rule/law/policy of a particular store? This could be beneficial to all of us.
Chandresh
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