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Warrrreagl and Grancy - I can understand your frustration. But, as it was eloquently pointed out in another thread recently, corelation does not necessarily equal causation. I think I understand why you think there may be an over-arching conspiracy to defraud consumers, and I think that you make an interesting argument for it. That said, I don't think that your experiences provide enough data points to come to your conclusion. Now please note I am NOT saying you're wrong, just that you don't have the evidence to prove yourself right.
Given the scale of the conspiracy that you see, I think it would be fairly easy to prove - or disprove. You would only need to gather a sizeable group of shoppers to track a target set of chains and ask them to note price discrepancies over a set amount of time. Using informed shoppers tracking hard results, you could figure it out fairly quickly.
That said, I am disinclined to believe in this kind of thing. Personally I think its more likely to be poor employees, poor management or poor data entry skills responsible - or some combination thereof. I think that the large data set would reveal that some stores are better than others and that results would vary based on personnel assignments.
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