Supermarket consumers may face sticker shock

There's a bill being pushed through the Massachusetts legislature that will allow grocery stores to conveniently leave off price tags on items. With this new proposal, consumers are expected to rely on electronic scanners instead of item-by-item pricing.

John Hurst, the president of the Retailers Association of Massachusetts, tells The Enterprise in Brockton that “consumers will benefit in the form of lower prices and shortened lines once stores no longer need to devote resources to item-by-item pricing.”

Watchdog Edgar Dworsky, the founder of ConsumerWorld.org, believes it's a ploy to cheat consumers.

“They’re not going to pass on savings to consumers,” Dworsky says. “It’s going to go to pad their bottom line.”