{"id":80518,"date":"2026-10-26T18:54:55","date_gmt":"2026-10-26T23:54:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/26\/ftc-and-20-states-sue-dollar-general-accusing-bargain-chain-of-overcharging-customers\/"},"modified":"2026-10-26T18:54:55","modified_gmt":"2026-10-26T23:54:55","slug":"ftc-and-20-states-sue-dollar-general-accusing-bargain-chain-of-overcharging-customers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/26\/ftc-and-20-states-sue-dollar-general-accusing-bargain-chain-of-overcharging-customers\/","title":{"rendered":"FTC and 20 states sue Dollar General, accusing bargain chain of overcharging customers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Suit that cites 2025 Guardian investigation alleges \u2018pattern of inaccurate pricing\u2019 that \u2018affects millions of purchases\u2019<\/p>\n<p>The Federal Trade Commission and 20 states have sued Dollar General, the nation\u2019s largest dollar-store chain, for persistently overcharging customers at its more than 20,000 stores across the United States.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ftc.gov\/system\/files\/ftc_gov\/pdf\/DollarGeneral-Complaint.pdf\">lawsuit<\/a>, filed in federal court in Nashville, cites a Guardian <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/dec\/03\/customers-pay-more-rising-dollar-store-costs\">investigation<\/a> published last December.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/oct\/26\/dollar-general-ftc-lawsuit\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Suit that cites 2025 Guardian investigation alleges \u2018pattern of inaccurate pricing\u2019 that \u2018affects millions of purchases\u2019 The Federal Trade Commission and 20 states have sued Dollar General, the nation\u2019s largest dollar-store chain, for persistently overcharging customers at its more than 20,000 stores across the United States. The lawsuit, filed in federal court in Nashville, cites &#8230; <a title=\"FTC and 20 states sue Dollar General, accusing bargain chain of overcharging customers\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/26\/ftc-and-20-states-sue-dollar-general-accusing-bargain-chain-of-overcharging-customers\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about FTC and 20 states sue Dollar General, accusing bargain chain of overcharging customers\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80518","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80518"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80518\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}