Here's how area
stores' listed prices compared with how they ring up on electronic scanners:
Service Merchandise, Northgate - 78 percent
accuracy. Eleven of 50 items scanned incorrectly, costing a customer $22.78
more than listed prices out of $4,404 in purchases.
JC Penney,
Northgate - 84 percent accuracy. Of 50 items valued at $ 1,380, a customer
could have paid $40.02 more than expected.
Lechters, Kenwood Towne
Centre - 88 percent. Of $173.51 in purchases, a customer could have paid 72
cents extra.
United Dairy Farmers, Pleasant Ridge - 88 percent. Of
$51.95 in purchases of 25 items, a customer could have paid 26 cents more than
expected.
Wal-Mart, Northgate - 88 percent. Of $267.85 in purchases, a
customer could hav e paid 91 cents
less than expected.
Kmart,
Groesbeck - 90 percent. Of $466.98 in purchases, a customer could have p aid
$18.04 less than expected.
SteinMart, Symmes Township - 90 percent. Of
$1,219.95 in purchases, a customer could have paid $48.99 more than expected.
Kmart, Forest Park - 94 percent. Of $1,101.50 in purchases, a customer
could ha ve paid $6.75 more than expected.
United Dairy Farmers, Blue
Ash - 94 percent. Of $88.24 in purchases, a customer could have paid $1.42 more
than expected.
Sam's Club, Pleasant Ridge - 96 percent. Of $1,634.45 in
purchases, a customer could have paid 89 cents less than expected.
Here are
the stores with 100 percent accuracy: BeBe at Kenwood Towne Centre.
Best Buy, Tri-County.
Burlington Coat Factory, Springdale.
Channel 48 Store of Knowledge, Kenwood Towne Centre.
Disney Store,
Kenwood Towne Centre.
Media Play, Norwood.
Micro Center,
Sharonville.
Service Merchandise, Tri-County.
Toys R Us,
Tri-County.
Value City, Tri-County.
Walgreen, Madeira.
World
of Science, Northgate.
The other stores with passing grades: All
98 percent:
Biggs, Harrison Township.
CVS, Montgomery.
KayBee Toys, Forest Park.
Kohl's, Symmes Township.
Office
Depot, Anderson Township.
Parisian, Kenwood Towne Centre.
SteinMart, Norwood.
Walgreens, Symmes Township. 96 percent:
Lechters, Northgate - one item of 25 wrong - $1.80 in the customer's
favor.
Source: Hamilton County Auditor's documents obtained by The Post.