Show cefes protect r so e c s in metros A s NEW E W YORK T the he butchers caie scale cale read 3 pound pounds but the chicken looked scrawny to id its prospective purchaser she snatched matched the bird from the store keeper before ho he could clean it deftly removed an ounce ounce slug from its gizzard Eit mard eard and identified herself henelt as an inspector of the city bureau of tieta and measures here she then served the startled butcher buther a summons t to 0 appear at a bureau of hearing on a charge of short weighing he lie was wa fined loo ivo and barte warte warned d that a second ottense would mean nican criM lInal coura court cour prosecution this recent incident in a manhattan store Is typical of the hundreds of retail chiseling chi cases tracked down annually by the shopping sleuths whose agan Is caveat emptor let tile buyer beware although tho the bureau saves new york housewives millions of dollars a year ear car hut nur nume Bume numerous nerous rous instances ces of cheating unfortunately escape its vigilance many blany are cheated fred J loughran bureau director said today that city storekeepers sold two billion dollars worth of food a year of this Arho he estimated that forty ra illion trillion dollars wa was mulcted from housewives os as a result of under ui cier tier handed practices behind counters loughran cited clied a valety of dishonest ue to 10 swindle gullible cust customers omers umers A recent cent case involved inov cd a grocery grocers store buner ouner anen who plak placed ed all alt purchases cin tin large p ech of paper AS at he weighed well weli weil ed each purchase he surreptitiously hed down one cad end rif 04 the paper to make the scale indicator go up a few ounces and added a few extra etra dollars to his cash register every day in another instance on an inspector caught a butcher who weighed meat orrl oti a piece of paper under which be he placed a pound of flattened out bacon the same agent also trapped m fishmonger who neglected to remove large chips of ice from his tish fish before he weighed them an other inspector recently served a summons on a fruit vendor who casually left a few cherries and grapes crapes on his scale as he weighed ach each purchase develop subtle some ingeniously dishonest tradesmen have developed subtler methods for which they often dupe of innocent customers until a bureau ern spots the gimmick one butcher who teil fell into this category a thin piece niece of string around the tray of his scale the loose end of which fell feli to the floor the counter to this end he attached a makeshift wood en pedal ahe placed a on his scale he stepped on the pedal regulating his touch carefully to as much weight to a chicken as he desired to catch crool red ced retailers in the act of short w eughing elg eig hing the bureaus 80 inspectors four of whom are women rosc rose r ose os customers and anake test |