If you are in a store buying a clearly marked $20.00 item, and the clerk only rings it up for up $2.00 by mistake, do you tell them about their mistake if no other store employee is around to catch the error, or do you keep quiet? I work for a very big full-line retail store. Recently there was a situation where an item was marked down to an amazingly low price and were told that associates could not purchase those items even without thecompany discount. Can they do that? You know, there is a legend about how Abraham Lincoln once walked a number of miles to return a penny that he had overcharged a customer. I don know if this story is true or not. However, that is beside the point. The point is the idea of the lengths someone was willing to go to do that which is honorable. If an item was marked up by 45% and then reduced by 15% in a sale what % profit would the final sale price be? 锘縄f an item you are buying has clearly marked price tag but you knew it was miss The honorable thing to do would be to inform the store of the error in the price tags. If the store still wants to sell you the item for the marked price, then great. If the store does not want to sell you the item for the lower price, then oh well. Either way, you get the satisfaction of knowing that you were honorable in your dealings with them. Also, it is possible that the items with the higher price are the ones with the wrong price. If this is the case, then your honesty may save someone else from being over charged. Is it legal to take something at a price when that price is clearly mismarked? Yes, but is it honorable? Look at it this way. How would you feel if the situation was reversed. What if the price of the item in question was mismarked in favor of the store? That is, what if the error led to the item having a price that was higher than it was supposed to be? Furthermore, what if you purchased that item and then found out that you had paid too much for it? What would you do then? Assuming a significant price difference, I would expect that most of you would go back to the store and demand a refund of the amount that you were over charged. If the store refused, you would then scream bloody murder and accuse the store of being dishonest and say that the store had taken advantage of you and you would be right. However, most of those that have answered this question so far see no problems with taking advantage of the store in the same way. So, once again, I ask, is this honorable? I don think so.
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