I'm off to sunny California at the end of the week, as part of what my boss calls my "Google Indoctr^WTraining". This caused a book crisis, because all the books I had out of the library needed to be returned and I was in the middle of one of them.
So I went into WH Smith and pick out a copy of Catch 22 by Joseph Heller. Splendid book, by the way. Although it was priced at £8 on the back, the book was scanned in at a cost of 1p. Yes, a whole penny. The girl at the counter thought this might be wrong so she sent me upstairs (escalating the problem, eh?) but the same happened. The twelve-year-old at the till there also considered this to be in error, so he went away to seek higher authority (I think he went even further upstairs). When he came back he scanned it again, it came up at 1p again and without even commenting on the anomaly, said, "That'll be one penny please."
Makes the three books I got from The Works for £5 look positively criminal in comparison.