$2 Million Settlement Reached in Home Depot Complaint Alleging Overcharging and False Advertising

Home Depot will pay nearly $2 million to settle a civil law enforcement complaint alleging overcharging and false advertising.

The $1,977,251 settlement involves a problem often called a “scanner violation” in which the price on the item or the item’s shelf tag is not the same as the one charged when the UPC code is scanned at the point-of-sale (POS) device or register, the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office said in a Thursday (Sept. 12) press release.

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