Wrong label on meat

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I love (bone-in) lamb shoulder chops. I usually fry them in a cast iron skillet. They cook in under eight minutes and are so good. I pair them with couscous or bulgur. Sometimes I do baked sweet potatoes or regular potatoes (white, or small mixed potato) and fry up some mushrooms as well. Makes for a delicious dinner. Our Stop & Shop supermarket sells them for $8.29 per pound. When I picked up a pack of two chops on Sunday I noticed that the price was $22.49 per pound. That’s a difference of $14.20 per pound. No way did the price go up so much. I looked closer at the label and noticed that it said lamb rib chop and not lamb shoulder chop. Whoever did the price labels made a mistake and put in the code for the wrong cut of meat. I put this pack down and looked at others. They all had the same mistake on them. I found someone in the meat department and told him what happened. He couldn’t help me with the price issue but he said that he will take all the shoulder chops off the shelf and bring them downstairs. I went to customer service to see if they can adjust the price for me as I wasn’t going to pay $22.49 per pound for them. They were able to do that. Instead of spending $26.76 on two lamb shoulder chops I spent $9.86. That’s a very big difference in price. It’s really important to look at price labels before buying something. Wonder how many people had already purchased these chops at the wrong price. And how many would have done it had I not discovered the issue and the meat wasn’t taken off the shelf to redo the price labels.