I was at the Albertsons supermarket near my house and noticed that they had several of the 5.58 ounce tins of W.E. Garrett sitting on the tobacco counter shelf. This was new, as the only thing I’ve ever seen there before are the 1.15 ounce tins. I asked the woman working the counter how much they cost. She picked up the tin, scanned it, and said, “$4.25, sir!” Yes, their system is ringing up the large tins for the price of the small ones. Of course I walked out with all they had: three 5.58 tins of W.E. Garrett. The final price was $15 and some change for 16.74 ounces. No, I do not feel guilty about this. It was their mistake, after all. I’m going to be keeping an eye out for restocks!

I wouldn’t feel guilty at all. That’s anti-corporate guerrilla warfare. You just won a small victory for the common man. No doubt they will realize their mistake soon enough, though.

Well…somebody is still getting your money. Good to see you not shoplifting though.

That makes up for the taxes >=)

I am sure that I will be paying for this a hundred times over once PACT kicks in.

Ummmm. No. I duly paid the asking price and I have the receipt to prove that. Please do show me the statute that construes this as “theft.”

that should last you for a long time in your fall out shelter after the world ends hahaha!

After the world ends there will be no snuff or snufftakers anyway.

If a company agrees to sell you something at a certain price, and that price is verified in their internal electronic data base, how can it be construed as theft? For all we know, they marked it down in order to get rid of a slow selling product. BTW, Texas taxes on smokeless tobacco aren’t that insane, with smokeless tobacco it’s 40% of the cost of manufacturing it (however that is determined). The huge problem is the cost of complying with every individual state’s tax codes, and registering as a licensed tobacco retailer in each state. In Texas it costs about $150. I’ve often thought of paying the fee upfront, and buying my stuff wholesale. Maybe that’s a potential solution to this problem. The difficulty would be finding wholesalers in your state who carry what you want. I’m going to look into it when I get some free time.

@Xander True. And it’s quickly approaching 2012. That’s when the movie said the world would end and Hollywood is always right.

Well the Maya said it first, and the Maya are always right, that’s why their civilization is still standing today. What? Oh. Nevermind.

Very good, kjoerup. I had similar situation with Bushmill’s whiskey few years back: vintage was sold at regular’s price by accident. Took advantage of that.

Out of curiosity, is it fresh snuff?

Well, the end of the world idea increases snuff sales…

The Mayan calendar is calibrated in many different ways, the largest being the 5200-year cycle, known as a baktun. The only thing the calendar actually says is the current baktun is set to end around about the winter solstice of 2012. What happens next is pure speculation. Maybe they’ll rescind the PACT Act, massive wells of pure hydrogen will erupt in the Gulf of Mexico, and Sarah Palin will give up her career in politics and pose for the January 2013 Hustler (which is what most of her fan base really wants anyway).

Is it fresh snuff? I opened one of these and can state with confidence that, well, it is W.E. Garrett snuff. It could have been milled in 1805 or last month. Is it really possible to tell for certain? I’m keeping two of these and giving the other one to a snuffer I know who is on a fixed income. He likes scotches and this will leave him well supplied for some time to come. No, I am not a crook, and, yes, I believe in sharing my good fortune.

Quite a good deal, Kjoerup. Not simple theft… simple awesomeness. Having some moron ring up a product wrong at a supermarket and pirated software are a tad bit different, but only a tad.

i was in the supermarket the other day at the meat counter i like to buy a chicken kiev usually runs about 3 or 4 dollars asked for one. the counterguy wraps it up i look at the price it was about 7 dollars i said to the counterguy 7 dollars no way … so he weighs it in his hand says yep thats over a lb … i said no way man put it on the machine again turns out i was right came to about 4 dollars … so just saying it works both ways

They’ll screw you over as fast as they can. Supermarkets stopped giving a damn about customers loooooong ago.

Seriously no one knows what the price was supposed to be. Maybe they were sent the wrong size charged the price for the smaller and told to just keep them, and they kept the regular price. Shit like that really happens a lot at supermarkets.

Yes it does. We used to have to sell it for what it rang up as.

At the supermarket I work at if a price rings up higher than the sticker price or shelf price then the customer gets one of that item for free.

Sounds like a Hy-Vee policy.