BS ...not theft at all........if a store posts a price or puts that price tag on a product and I pick it up and take it too the checkout counter I get it at that price......this was nothing less..........the store managers comments ....” told them they were being dishonest “ is cow crap as well.
Stupid hurts (and is expensive at times) !
So you’re telling me that if you see a pile of items at the store, each of which are marked $99.99, and you dig through the pile and find one that is marked $9.99, you think that it’s perfectly acceptable to try and buy that item for $9.99, even though you know good and well the actual price is $99.99?
Tell me, do you think it is dishonest to change price tags on items? If so, what is the difference between the two situations?
637:6 Theft of Lost or Mislaid Property. – A person commits theft when:
I. He obtains property of another which he knows to have been lost or mislaid, or to have been delivered under a mistake as to the identity of the recipient or as to the nature or amount of the property, without taking reasonable measures to return the same to the owner, and
II. He has the purpose to deprive the owner of such property when he obtains the property or at any time prior to taking the measures designated in paragraph I.
You are legally right and morally wrong.
Your analogy is not an accurate analogy, so let me provide a better one:
You go to the store to buy a new X-Box360 for your kid, look at the price-tag which is clearly marked $329.95, and consider $329.95 to be a reasonable price and decide to buy it. You go to the checkout counter, and the employee ringing it up enters it incorrectly for $3.29. Do you:
(A) inform the employee of the mistake;
(B) quickly swipe your debit card and hope nobody notices;
(C) tell the employee you meant to get 9 more units and ask him to simply change the quantity to 10 while you run back to pick up 9 more at this "bargain" price?