- Grocery store giants have been fined millions of dollars this year for overcharging customers due to scanning errors, leading to a lack of funding for statewide random unannounced inspections of price-scanner systems at retailers by the Washington State Department of Agriculture.
Since the price to fill your grocery cart has soared by 28%, the mere possibility of being overcharged — on top of inflated prices — by computer error has shoppers like Patrick Carlson scouring receipts for pricing errors, which Carlson says have become common.
“You’ll find discrepancies eventually,” Carlson told KIRO 7. “I mean, I find them almost every single time.”
Grocery store giants have been fined millions of dollars this year by government agencies in several states for overcharging customers because of scanning errors. The Washington State Department of Agriculture used to conduct statewide random, unannounced inspections of price-scanner systems at retailers to check for accuracy between prices advertised and prices at the register…