There are laws like this in most US states. Having worked (briefly) in software which handles pricing and point-of-sale systems, I can confidently say that this won’t be fixed anytime soon—even big chains have … imperfect … IT and ops processes (and store associates) that miss plenty of edge cases.
I don’t know of any recent court cases around these kinds of laws—most stores just let a manager give up to $X per day in concessions to customers (for any reasons they see fit) and it doesn’t hit anyone’s radar. It seems likely that if a store gets hit by it very hard, they’ll ban the customers who they feel are abusive. I strongly doubt you’d get very far if you did try to enforce it on an uncooperative store.
There are laws like this in most US states. Having worked (briefly) in software which handles pricing and point-of-sale systems, I can confidently say that this won’t be fixed anytime soon—even big chains have … imperfect … IT and ops processes (and store associates) that miss plenty of edge cases.
I don’t know of any recent court cases around these kinds of laws—most stores just let a manager give up to $X per day in concessions to customers (for any reasons they see fit) and it doesn’t hit anyone’s radar. It seems likely that if a store gets hit by it very hard, they’ll ban the customers who they feel are abusive. I strongly doubt you’d get very far if you did try to enforce it on an uncooperative store.