Legal Question in Criminal Law in North Carolina

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None - unless you get caught. Then it could be a form of attempted larceny - shoplifting by changing price tags.G.S. � 14-72.1.(d) Whoever, without authority, willfully transfers any price tag from goods or merchandise to other goods or merchandise having a higher selling price or marks said goods at a lower price or substitutes or superimposes thereon a false price tag and then presents said goods or merchandise for purchase shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction, shall be punished as provided in subsection (e). Of course this isn't as much of an issue these days with bar codes and electronic inventory control. You'd have to be in some ancient hillbilly shop for price tag switching to work.