Dollar General’s directory lists Rhode Island stores in 17 communities, and the complaint alleges its pricing errors tended to cost shoppers money on everyday goods. Rhode Islanders can report pricing problems to the FTC or the state attorney general’s office.
Eight overcharges. Five undercharges. That is how one shopping trip to a Dollar General in Cleveland, Ohio, came out when Federal Trade Commission investigators compared what the register rang up against what the shelves promised, according to a federal complaint filed Monday.
Rhode Island is not among the plaintiffs. The states that joined the FTC are Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Connecticut, Florida, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Louisiana, Michigan, Mississippi, Nebraska, New Jersey, North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Utah and Wisconsin…