I Stole Bread From Dollar General

So I watched this video about how DG opens a new store with bargain prices, but raises prices without changing the prices displayed on the shelf. My curiosity piqued since I shop at DG for many items, I decided tonight I would hit a DG on the way back from dinner.

I photographed the shelf price display for each item purchased and compared it with the price from the register receipt. Keep in mind that I shopped at a DG near Malvern, Arkansas and not from one of the states mentioned in the video.



As it turns out, there was a price discrepancy on an item I purchased. It was the Clorox wipes priced at $5.95 versus the shelf display price of $5.75.

I went to pay for my stuff, grabbed my receipt (along with bread I stole), and headed to my truck. Studying the receipt, I discovered the price difference of twenty cents for the Clorox wipes. That's when I also noticed I hadn't paid for the bread.

While being rung up, I snatched the bread away from the clerk before he could ring it up.
So I brought the bread back in to pay for and informed the clerk of the price discrepancy. He said that they were busy and hadn't yet finished changing the price tags and showed me a sheet of price stickers they were to put on the shelves. This is consistent with the intentional understaffing done by DG corporate mentioned in the video.

I told the clerk of the video I watched and was aware that the clerks are given no guidance on how to handle the price discrepancy previously described.

Heckuva business model. Gipping customers nickles and dimes here and there.

The kicker for me is how no one is being held responsible by not being directly charged with a crime, but rather being fined, which then just becomes a cost of doing business. It may as well be a mafia-style shakedown. It's our government violating its own RICO statutes.

Broad provisions: No actual consumer protection. The penalty is a fine which goes back to the government essentially making the fine a double tax with no benefit to the consumer harmed by these shady business practices.

Keep watching football and we'll colonize Mars in fifty years.