The FTC accuses Dollar General of routinely overcharging customers

Dollar General is facing caller national scrutiny complete its pricing practices.

The US Federal Trade Commission stated Monday it has submitted a lawsuit, alongside alongside 20 states, accusing the discount retailer of deceptive pricing on its shelves, cost tags, and advertisements.

"Dollar General has, for years, often mislabeled prices, overcharged consumers and unsuccessful to accurate the matter notwithstanding extended company cognition of the problem," the FTC stated in a statement.

The business operates additional than 21,000 US stores and typically serves customers in additional rural and low-income areas of the country.

The filings say Dollar General has received tens of thousands of complaints from shoppers who stated they did not obtain an advertised cost and that the business unsuccessful to adequately location the problem.

As a result, Dollar General received millions of dollars from overcharging customers, the FTC alleged.

Dollar General did not immediately react to a petition for comment on this story.

The act comes small than two weeks following New York Attorney General Letitia James reached a colony of nearly $1.9 myriad in food and individual items as a civic penalty for overcharging shoppers in the state. New York did not associate the FTC's complaint.

US consumers have been particularly concerned concerning fairness in retailing pricing as additional stores current digital cost tags. Both Walmart and Target have issued community statements promising cost transparency and consistency online and at the register. Home Depot recently did the same.