Albany – New York’s attorney general has settled an investigation into false price advertising for Coca-Cola 12-packs by Wal-Mart at 117 stores statewide.
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The attorney general’s office says the retail chain launched a national Father’s Day sale in June advertising the 12-packs for $3, but New York consumers were routinely charged $3.50.
Investigators say consumers who complained were falsely told New York has a “sugar tax.”
They say markup more than 16 percent above the advertised price violated two New York laws.
They say Wal-Mart ran a similar sale in March, and 66,000 12-packs of Coca-Cola have been sold in New York at an inflated price.
The settlement requires Wal-Mart pay over $66,000 in penalties and costs and improve internal reporting.
A call to the Bentonville, Arkansas, company was not initially returned.
The shortchange BOTH their employees and their customers. Purchase mainly shlock from overseas. Why support them when they take you for the fool?
What were they thinking with that one?