Worcester Rally Calls on CVS to Stop Overcharging Customers
Community members and activists rallied in Worcester, MA. on Friday calling on CVS to stop overcharging its customers.
Overcharges found at CVS stores in Massachusetts increased 67 percent from 2007 to 2008, indicating that the retailer has failed to correct prior violations of state item pricing laws. On average, Massachusetts inspectors found almost five times more overcharges per inspection at CVS stores than at all other retailers in the state. Although CVS stores made up only 6.6 percent of all state pricing inspections in 2008, CVS's violations accounted for 32 percent of all overcharges caught by the state that year. That's almost one third of all the overcharges inspectors found in Massachusetts.
Luz Ramirez, lead organizer at Neighbor to Neighbor, said at Friday's rally: "I've lived and worked in Worcester for almost 20 years and I know that residents of Worcester can't afford to pay any more than the advertised price on essentials like food and medicine."
Massachusetts Consumer Affairs and Business Regulation Undersecretary Barbara Anthony has ordered CVS to correct its illegal overcharging problems, and met with the company earlier this month over the issue.
Read more about CVS's ongoing pricing problems in Massachusetts in Cure CVS's recent report, Your Total Comes to...More Than the Advertised Price: How CVS hasn't fixed its pricing violation problems in Massachusetts (PDF).
Posted by Alex G. on July 27, 2009, 11:17 AM
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I agree with how this is a problem but why do you still shop there then?