[Chat] Watch the register at Giant

[Dale Ghent]

On May 29, 2005, at 1:07 AM, jdy wrote:

> is that fraud? has happened to me a couple times. even at the rotunda.
> judy

"Fraud" means that it was willfully done - ergo it would be fraud if  
Giant advertised one price and it actually charged a higher one on  
purpose.

An issue of the store computer not being updated to match the  
advertised price most likely would not be willful fraud. Instead,  
it's what we call a "mistake."

Actually, it wouldn't be fraud even if they were doing it willfully.  
I'm not a lawyer, but I do believe that to make a situation  
fraudulent, there already has to be a contract between the involved  
parties that was broken. Since there's no contract between you and  
Giant when you're looking at one of their circulars or reading the  
price printed on the shelf, then at worst that would be false  
advertising... but again, you would have to prove that it was  
willfully done by Giant.

/dale