Retailers say scanner technology has several advantages: speeding checkout time, lowering labor costs, and improving sales and inventory records. They also say that scanning results in fewer pricing errors than manual entry.

I think you will agree with me when I say that this story is another outrageous example of Walmart fleecing the consumer. My mother and I went in to purchase new HP cartridges for her printer in the Ponca City, Oklahoma, Walmart store. We went in with the old empty cartridges to insure that we [...]