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According to the DCA Commissioner Jonathan Mintz, the agency checked out 983 supermarkets across the five boroughs over the past year to see if mistakes were made at the cash register.

"The results of our inspection were very troubling," Mintz said. "We're very unhappy with what we're seeing out there."

Inspectors checked whether items were priced correctly, weighed correctly and taxed correctly.

"If a can of beans on the shelf says $1.75, when you're checking out, are they really charging you $1.75?" asked Mintz. "Consumers need to know we are protecting them at the checkout counter and supermarkets are going to have to learn the hard way that we will be checking them out too if they doesn't start doing a significantly better job of treating New York City consumers."

Mintz says the worst compliance was in the city's five-poorest neighborhoods, all of which are in the Bronx. The compliance level there was 36 percent, compared to the 48 percent citywide.

Moreover, the inspections found that bodegas had a compliance rate of 82 percent citywide and 94 percent in the city's five poorest neighborhoods.

The DCA issued 516 violations as a result of the study. The supermarkets could face more than $380,000 in fines to the city.

Mintz said because of the results of the sweep, inspectors will do double the number of inspections in the coming year.

DCA officials says the most common violation was for a lack of item pricing.

They also released a list of the top 25 violators Wednesday morning, but late in the day they withdrew it, saying it was not entirely accurate.

New Yorkers should report suspected pricing problems by calling 311 or visiting nyc.gov/consumers.