I just read this post over on Consumerist.  It seems that going to the grocery store is now only slightly less complicated than reading something a lawyer wrote.

To summarize, the Nash Finch supermarket chain is imposing a 10% fee, assessed at the register on all purchases in its Avanza, Food Bonanza and Wholsale Food Outlets.  Yup, so you pick up a box of cereal that’s marked $3.00 on the shelf, but by the time you get to the register, it magically increases in price to $3.30.  It just so happens that they’re imposing these fees in stores that cater to those of Hispanic heritage.  Yikes.

Nash Finch claims that the grocery business is highly competitive, and this is one way to draw customers in.  By trying to confuse them with funny explanations in fine print?  To their credit, they do offer the explanation in both English and Spanish.  The latter shouldn’t really be necessary, given the location of the stores (i.e. inside the borders of the United States), but that’s another post for another day.  Suffice it to say, any points I’ve got raise on that issue would likely be found more cogent than say, this guy.

So now, the word is out, the news is reporting it, the community is up in arms, yet people continue to shop there.  It’s almost as bad as the lottery, another popular “bad at math fee”.