Walmart to Pay Millions for Meat Dept. Overcharges
This is the craziest case MrConsumer has ever seen in his 47 years as a consumer advocate. While you may have heard about this case last week, what wasn't reported was the clever way Walmart pulled off the alleged overcharging scheme.
Walmart was sued by a consumer claiming that for years the company has manipulated the weight and price of packaged meat, poultry, and fish sold by the pound, as well as certain bagged produce, such that shoppers were charged more than the lowest represented price per pound shown on shelf tags and signs.
Bekeart here:
This scheme appears to be PROGRAMED into the COMPUTER WEIGHING.
The FRAUDULENT WEIGHT caused "SALE PRICE" to be same a "REGULAR PRICE"
I suggest CRIMINAL prosecution by various states Weight & Measures departments.
Most of the overcharges occurred on rollback or sale/reduced items.
Images at Mouse Print* – Exposing the strings and catches buried in the fine print.
Turkey was 98 cents a pound according to the Walmart sign, but they were marked $1.48 a pound 50 cents higher. So this 15-pound turkey the consumer was going to buy should have cost $15.07 and not $22.76 as marked. Instead, at the checkout, while the system was properly programmed to charge the 98 cents per pound price, it deceptively changed the weight to now be over 23 pounds. And magically, the consumer was charged the full $22.76 price on the tag close to an eight dollar overcharge.
This is the craziest case MrConsumer has ever seen in his 47 years as a consumer advocate. While you may have heard about this case last week, what wasn't reported was the clever way Walmart pulled off the alleged overcharging scheme.
Walmart was sued by a consumer claiming that for years the company has manipulated the weight and price of packaged meat, poultry, and fish sold by the pound, as well as certain bagged produce, such that shoppers were charged more than the lowest represented price per pound shown on shelf tags and signs.
Bekeart here:
This scheme appears to be PROGRAMED into the COMPUTER WEIGHING.
The FRAUDULENT WEIGHT caused "SALE PRICE" to be same a "REGULAR PRICE"
I suggest CRIMINAL prosecution by various states Weight & Measures departments.
Most of the overcharges occurred on rollback or sale/reduced items.
Images at Mouse Print* – Exposing the strings and catches buried in the fine print.
Turkey was 98 cents a pound according to the Walmart sign, but they were marked $1.48 a pound 50 cents higher. So this 15-pound turkey the consumer was going to buy should have cost $15.07 and not $22.76 as marked. Instead, at the checkout, while the system was properly programmed to charge the 98 cents per pound price, it deceptively changed the weight to now be over 23 pounds. And magically, the consumer was charged the full $22.76 price on the tag close to an eight dollar overcharge.
Years back I went to this large Doctors office for about 15 years. They had it divided off into 3 sections and each section had their own scale. I had the feeling for a while that you got different readings from each scale.
