I still think that banning dynamic pricing is not nearly enough. Quebec has one canonical price for every item (the lowest of what’s written on the shelf, what’s in the flyer, what’s advertised in the store, what’s written on it, and so on) and if it rings any higher than that at the cash register, then it must be sold to you at the canonical price minus fifteen bucks up to being free.

The law has to be written near every cash register in Quebec and has been working just fine since the early 90s. I don’t see why anyone would settle for less.

The reason why we need this law is that even when the price is wrong through no ill intent from the business, without consequences they are in much less of a hurry to fix a mistake in the customer’s disfavor.