I WENT to a local hypermarket and picked up a jar of pasta sauce which cost RM4.25 according to the price tag. At the checkout counter, the cashier told me that the price was RM6.75 (a difference of RM2.50 or 59% more expensive).

I told the cashier that the displayed price on the shelf was RM4.25, which he subsequently verified. He then shrugged his shoulders and said that the counter machine displayed a price of RM6.75 and that I should pay RM6.75 if I wanted that jar.

I asked to see the manager but was told he was not around, and neither was his supervisor. Aghast, I left the hypermarket.

What cheesed me off was that this was not the first time this happened at this hypermarket. A colleague of mine also experienced the same thing – three items bearing different prices at the shelves and at the check-out counter.

NEARLY CHEATED,
Malacca.

Source: The Star – January 31, 2008