States also are being pretty
aggressive in looking at things like scanner errors, which you
mentioned. In fact, the former attorney general of Ohio—well, first of
all, the current attorney general of Ohio has investigated and fined Dollar General a million dollars
for scanner violations. Basically, the price someone sees on the shelf
is not the price they’re being charged by the scanner when they check
out. The former attorney general of Ohio, a guy named Marc Dann, is now putting together a class action lawsuit against the dollar store chains
for scanner errors, which he’s estimating Dollar General loan is making
hundreds of millions of dollars annually in scanner errors because
they’re so huge and they’re almost always in favor of the company and
not the consumer.
-- Kennedy Smith to Janine Jackson about dollar stores, "'These Stores Are Unhealthy for Our Communities': CounterSpin interview with Kennedy Smith on dollar store invasion" (FAIR's COUNTERSPIN).
