I hesitate to post this since it might only be interesting to a fellow poster once of the "pale" ....

I had a bitter fight with Shoprite which I choose not to bore the board with. The end result is that I shop more at Pathmark than I used to and not at all at Shoprite.

Pathmark has those customer operated scanners to check out, which are convenient. This time for some reason I scanned my card before I hit "pay". I got all the way through to accepting the amount. For some reason once I did hit "pay", it didn't charge me the tax. I only noticed this once I got home.

I checked my Chase a/c and the amount is the amount I accepted: The pre-tax.

Odd, no?