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Walgreen's Pricing: Have You Noticed Any Strange Practices?
Koster says customers have found they were overcharged on about 20 percent of the items they purchased. Have you noticed anything like this?
Missouri Attorney General Chris Koster this week sued Walgreen Co. for what he called a pattern of false and misleading advertising and pricing schemes. That makes Missouri the latest state to sue the pharmacy chain.
Four other states or local law-enforcement agencies have extracted settlements from Walgreen's, including in California, where, according to this Patch.com report, the company agreed to pay $1.425 million for violations of California's truthful advertising law.
According to a report by the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, investigators for the attorney general's office "found that they were overcharged on about 20 percent of the items they purchased — or on 43 items out of 205 products."
"This level of consumer deception is inexcusable from a corporation as sophisticated as Walgreens," the Post-Dispatch reported Koster saying. "In fact, it’s appalling."
Koster's people investigated at eight Walgreen's stores around the state, including two in the St. Louis area.
Read more about the investigation here, or watch this report from Newsy.com. How about you? Have you noticed anything like what Koster is claiming in his suit, and other states have claimed about Walgreen's?
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