With word from Raleigh that more stores have been fined for price-scanning errors — including three in Surry — the question is, are the penalties imposed sufficient to stop the practice that’s costing consumers?
“That’s a good question,” Manager Chad Parker of the N.C. Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services’ Standards Division said Thursday in discussing discrepancies that arise between sums advertised for products and those showing up at the cash register.
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