A local foodbank became the recipient of a chunk of money from a settlement between Dollar General and the Ohio Attorney General’s Office today.
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On Wednesday, the Montgomery County Auditor’s Office presented a check for nearly $23,000 of the settlement money to The Foodbank, Inc. in Dayton. The amount was Montgomery County’s portion of the state’s $1 million lawsuit settlement with Dollar General over pricing inaccuracies, which News Center 7′s I-Team has been reporting on for months.
The lawsuit came after dozens of Dollar General locations, including 22 in Montgomery County, failed inspections during a price verification sweep in 2022. At the end of 2022, there was improvement with 13 county locations failing a second time and six failing three times in a row.
Keith told the I-Team’s Mike Campbell Wednesday that all the Dollar General stores in the county have finally passed their inspections.