State v. Meeks’s Empirical Analysis

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6 state decisions

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1. “In the first method, Meeks would walk into a store, load a shopping cart with merchandise, and then take it to the return counter and “return” the items without a receipt, usually in exchange for a store gift card. The second method involved price-switching by Meeks—tak-ing bar code stickers from less expensive items and putting them onto more expensive items, then purchasing the more expensive items at the lesser price. In the third method, Meeks would bring a receipt into a store, pick up the items listed on that receipt from store shelves, and then take the items to the return counter for a cash refund.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. State of Iowa v. Betty Ann Nall