Ohio joins lawsuit against Dollar General for dishonest pricing, again
The Ohio Attorney General’s Office announced that Ohio is joining several other states to sue Dollar General, for the same reason that Ohio sued it and Family Dollar four years ago – for advertising at one price and charging another at the register. The new lawsuit accuses the dollar store of continuing the deceptive pricing practices. “This pattern of inaccurate pricing has persisted for years and affects millions of purchases across the country,” the lawsuit alleges. It further accuses Dollar General of performing internal audits that confirmed the problem, and of ignoring more than 29,000 complaints from Jan. 1, 2023 through March 31, 2026 for the issue across all 48 states where it operates. Part of the issue, the suit alleges, is that the stores are often too thinly staffed to meet the demands of running the store, such as printing new pricing labels and putting them on the…
