Florida joins FTC lawsuit against Dollar General over pricing

The Federal Trade Commission and 20 states, including Florida, filed a lawsuit against Dollar General Corporation, alleging the retail chain routinely charged customers higher prices at checkout than listed on store shelves and advertisements. Dollar General overcharge lawsuitFederal regulators and a coalition of 20 states claim Dollar General engaged in widespread, long-running deceptive pricing schemes that cost consumers millions of dollars. Officials said the retailer operates more than 21,000 stores nationwide and failed to fix pricing errors despite corporate knowledge of the issue. The states joining the federal lawsuit are Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Connecticut, Florida, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Louisiana, Michigan, Mississippi, Nebraska, New Jersey, North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Utah and Wisconsin. Regulators allege the company extracted unlawful overcharges from vulnerable, low- and fixed-income shoppers who rely on accurate shelf pricing. Consumer pr