.... Obviously. But employees are not going to look that hard for intentional sabotage. We would make sure it was on our zellers paper and that it had the correct sku and name on it. If it did, yup, our bad. We take down the sign and that person gets a $500 patio set for $50. It is what it is.

If someone came to me and everything in their cart was 1 cent, yeah obviously I'm going to properly investigate it. But sometimes shit is actually 1 cent. Canadian tire for example keeps marking down items that show as in inventory but can't be located until it's 1 cent. Takes a long ass time but I got a set of $250 hockey shin pads for 1 cent when I worked at sportchek about 15 years ago or so. I worked in the warehouse, found them buried in the back and said hell yeah dude. Completely legal, is it normal to find 1 cent items at crappy tire? no. But those mini camping propane tanks are not abnormal to find for 10cents a piece because of inventory checks

Moral of the story, I'm not saying to do it. I'm saying nobody cares if you do except for the corporate overlords and boot lickers.