Until fairly recently Michigan had an Item Pricing Law which declared that all items in a retail store must be individually marked with a price, bar code scanners not withstanding.
The purpose was to try and save the jobs of Union grocery clerks when scanning registers came out in the 70’s.
The law also said that if the price scanned did not match the ticket the customer was entitled to ten times the difference, up to a maximum of $5.00.
The result of which was virtually every store in Michigan had a line of grumblies at the checkout any hour of the day or night, demanding their five bucks.
Color me stupid, but I just don’t have the time to shop like that for my everyday stuff.
Maybe I should, though, huh?