Reply #32: Your country needs this policy ...

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1. THE ITEM FREE SCANNER POLICY
Retailers will implement an Item Free Scanner Policy as follows:
1.1 On a claim being presented by the customer, where the scanned price of a product at checkout is higher than the price displayed in the store or than advertised by the store, the lower price will be honoured; and

(a) if the correct price of the product is $10 or less, the retailer will give the product to the customer free of charge; or
(b) if the correct price of the product is higher than $10, the retailer will give the customer a discount of $10 off the corrected price.


read all the details at:
http://www.retailcouncil.org/membersonly/govrelations/codes/scanner_acc/scanner_accuracy02_eng.asp

The stores involved actually do abide by this ... we've received several free items because of this policy, although scanners do seem to be a bit more accurate these days.