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Weights and Measures: Consumers
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The Centre County Sealer of Weights and Measures would like to remind consumers to glance over their receipts from local stores. Retail prices in the local grocery stores typically are not put on the individual items. Instead a price label is put on the shelf in front of the item. Many consumers take for granted the price on the shelf matches the price that is in the computerized register system. Consumers can be over charged if the store put the sale price label on the shelf but did not put the sale price in the computerized register.
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In 1998 Los Angeles County Weights and Measures uncovered a very sophisticated operation that defrauded the public of millions of dollars. A computer ship was developed that would make a gasoline dispenser operate correctly at five- and ten-gallon test drafts, but at intervals in between it would cheat the consumer. Because weights and measures officials use five-gallon test measures when testing a device, this deception was very difficult to detect. Those individuals responsible for this crime were prosecuted.
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Walmart received an $89,705 fine after the Wisconsin Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection found 280 weights and measures violations at nine Walmart stores. The gargantuan retailer failed to subtract the weight of packaging materials, or "tare weight," when pricing bulk items like coffee, broccoli, and sweet potatoes.
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Ron Williams, Centre County's Sealer of Weights and Measures, reminds consumers to compare the price recorded on their credit card receipt to the price on the fuel pump and the advertising sign. Consumers will pay the price per gallon that is recorded on the credit receipt—even if it is higher than the price shown on the fuel pump or advertising sign.
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