Dollar General sued by FTC, 20 states for alleged deceptive pricing practices

The Federal Trade Commission, joined by 20 states, has sued Dollar General for alleged “long-running deceptive pricing practices” by charging customers more at registers than what was displayed on shelves or published in advertisements.Read more trending news In a complaint filed on Monday in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee, the plaintiffs said that the bargain store chain failed to correct the pricing discrepancies despite “extensive corporate knowledge of the problem.”According to a news release, the states joining the FTC lawsuit include Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Connecticut, Florida, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Louisiana, Michigan, Mississippi, Nebraska, New Jersey, North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Utah and Wisconsin. “Dollar General has betrayed the trust of millions of American consumers and imposed significant financial harm on communities and consumers who are already struggling to make their paychecks last,” Christopher Mufarrig