Price-Scanning Errors Result in Fines for Two Aberdeen Stores
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Two Aberdeen Dollar General stores have been fined more than $1,300 each for price-scanning errors, according to a release from the state department of Agriculture and Consumer Services.
The stores are among 11 from across the state to receive fines after random inspections. Five of the 11 are Dollar General stores.
The Dollar General at 1800 N.C. 5 paid $1,350 in civil penalties for price scanner errors after an inspection in January revealed a 4 percent error based on an inspection lot of 100 randomly selected items. A second inspection in February of 300 random items found an error rate of 3 percent on nine overcharges on an inspection lot of 300 random items.
The Dollar General at 1369 Sandhills Blvd. paid $1,365. Inspectors found a 12 percent error rate based on six overcharges out of 50 random items. In February, a second inspection found a 3.33 percent error based on 10 overcharges out of 300 randomly selected items.
Both stores face an additional inspection.
The department conducts periodic unannounced inspections of business scanner systems to check for accuracy between the prices advertised and the prices that ring up at the register.
If a store has more than a 2 percent error rate on overcharges, inspectors discuss the findings with the store manager and conduct a follow-up inspection at a later date. Undercharges are also reported but don’t count against the store.
Penalties are assessed if the store fails the follow-up inspection. In addition to penalties paid, the stores face inspections every 60 days until it meets the 2 percent or less error rate.
Additional failures may result in more penalties.
Each store could have been assessed a civil penalty of up to $5,000 for each violation under the Weights and Measures Act of 1975. Money collected from the penalties is distributed to school systems statewide.
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fugitiveguy 1 year ago
it seems the schools have so many sources of revenue yet all we here about is they don't have enough money.
DaveyNC 1 year ago
Huh?
healthcare_2011 1 year ago
How does the insufficient funds of the schools link to this story??
Bflat 1 year ago
I wonder if these errors were because someone forgot to lower the price ofitems on sale. Maybe it was a scanner malfunction. Also, will these fines cause prices to go up? To stay in business, they have to make a profit.
TooHot 1 year ago
They probably spent $5,000,000 on a program that finds $10,000 in errors.
fugitiveguy 1 year ago
" Money collected from the penalties is distributed to school systems statewide."
healthcare_2011 1 year ago
Oh ok, Thanks... I didn't know that.
healthcare_2011 1 year ago
I guess maybe I should read the entire article next time... I stopped at the second to last paragraph.
Fossa 1 year ago
It is still up to the consumer to check what is being rung up.
weteachers2 1 year ago
This is in response to fugitiveguy's comment about the "many sources of revenue" If we have this multitude of revenue then explain why: 1. schools are using textbooks that date back as far as 10 years in some cases. 2. public school employees have had frozen salaries for 4 years now.
3. Schools are meeting many basic needs via student fundraisers. 4, Annual budgets continue to be cutback time and time again,
Thats just the tip of the iceberg. It is unfortunate about the Dollar General situation, but if not for education--where do suggest that money go?
DoubleHeroides 1 year ago
This is super strange to me that we have a couple of commenters that are defending situations where consumers are being overcharged by a branch of a chain store. The scanner is overcharging you and you defend the store when it gets busted for essentially stealing from you. Whether they intended to or not you still got robbed at the checkout counter because you thought you would be charged X and got charged a higher Y.
Though I will admit that in all likelihood a 3 to 4 percent hike in all sales across the board would result in a negligible increase per person, a couple of cents here and there per purchase but that adds up to something like fraud.