Grocery prices have soared by nearly 30% over the past five years, and a nationwide investigation suggests shoppers buying items on sale may have been paying even more than they realize — because of expired sale tags.
A KIRO 7 investigation last November on grocery price accuracy on the local level found what Consumer Reports revealed at a national level.
Some prices displayed on store shelves don’t always match what customers are charged at checkout. The problem, first uncovered locally by KIRO 7 last year, involved a Seattle-area grocery store manager who told KIRO 7 that pricing errors at her store occurred because staffing shortages made it difficult to keep thousands of constantly changing shelf tags up to date…