[Libertina]

Katherine was a guest on the John Carlson show - KVI. While he originally gave her short shrift (he didn't see the "problem") she was intelligent and provacative. I have stopped shopping at my neighborhood QFC because of their move to force shoppers to use cards. Even Safeway prints coupons for those who don't want cards, but QFC says, use this card or pay 5x the $. I feel sorry for the employees, who were among the friendliest. Now they are made to enfore this garbage.

[weegee]

Here in Houston, the "discount" cards reduce the prices on many items to the walkup retail price at other stores.

I avoid Randalls because of their price gouging.

I question if "max pricing" could ever be implemented. There is typically a posted or stickered price on groceries. Walk up customers are still going to want to know how much something costs and they may not buy much at the "max price". Selling merchandise to someone for higher than the posted price can cause problems.

There have already been lawsuits because the register price doesn't match a posted price (the registers don't always have the correct data and the shelves aren't always correct). To bill the customer this way is considered a deceptive trade practice.