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It has been done before. I see little reason it can't happen again. I recall one larger grocery chain being nailed late 70's for placing items near the checkout that would be rung onto every shopper's charges. I think brooms were the most common. Unfortunately for them, once multiple stores were investigated and people began talking the conspiracy of minor roles fell apart.
If you were designing a system to systematically gather an extra small percentage, wouldn't increased error be a great place to hide it?
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There are a vast number of people who are uninformed and heavily propagandized, but fundamentally decent. The propaganda that inundates them is effective when unchallenged, but much of it goes only skin deep. If they can be brought to raise questions and apply their decent instincts and basic intelligence, many people quickly escape the confines of the doctrinal system and are willing to do something to help others who are really suffering and oppressed." -Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media, p. 195
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