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Whole Foods Overcharging Customers for Pre-Packaged Foods, Department of Consumer Affairs Finds
An investigation by the Department of Consumer Affairs has found that Whole Food's New York City stores have been overstating the weights of pre-packaged products — including meats, dairy and baked goods — resulting in customers being overcharged, the agency said Wednesday.
The department said it will expand its investigation into the chain to examine the extent of its overcharging for pre-packaged foods, based on its initial findings.
The DCA tested 80 different pre-packaged products and found that all of them had mislabeled weights. On top of that, 89 percent of the packages tested didn't meet the federal standard for the maximum amount that an individual package can deviate from its actual weight, as set by the U.S. Department of Commerce. The overcharges ranged from $0.80 for a package of pecan panko to nearly $15 more for a package of coconut shrimp.
In another case, the DCA inspected eight packages of chicken tenders, which were priced at $9.99 per pound. Consumers would have been overcharged $4.13 on average -- a profit of $33.04 for Whole Foods for those eight packages. One package was overpriced by $4.85, the DCA said.
A third inspection of four packages of berries, priced at $8.58 per package, found that customers would have been overcharged by $1.15 on average. That's a $4.60 profit for the four packages. One package was overpriced by $1.84, the DCA said.
yeah I heard about that. makes sense their food is overpriced. Some of it necessary because it is specialty food and its REALLY good! Hopefully they don't shut it down. Its a good place to get healthy food.
Let me guess. 2 ghetto people who bought goods at whole foods made the complaint. I can assure you that a Hipster would never complain about whole foods.
Let me guess. 2 ghetto people who bought goods at whole foods made the complaint. I can assure you that a Hipster would never complain about whole foods.
Foods do not weigh themselves nor write their own labels. So you have two main possibilities.
One is that there is an orchestrated attempt to defraud customers coming from the top down.
The other possibility is that those doing the weighing/labeling are not that great in math.
Overcharging for goods sold by weight is nothing new; back in the days of grocers, butchers, bakers and other local such shops you had to watch whomever was doing the weighing carefully. It was fairly common for a thumb to make its way onto the scale so that one-half pound of ground beef was really only one-quarter.
The bolded line is not a possibility. The computer in the scale does the math. If the weight/price is wrong, it's intentional.
Whole foods should be put out of business for their sheer hipocracy. It's one thing to be self righteous. It's another to profess self righteousness, and be crooked.
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Originally Posted by BugsyPal
As they say, garbage in ='s garbage out.
Foods do not weigh themselves nor write their own labels. So you have two main possibilities.
One is that there is an orchestrated attempt to defraud customers coming from the top down.
The other possibility is that those doing the weighing/labeling are not that great in math.
Overcharging for goods sold by weight is nothing new; back in the days of grocers, butchers, bakers and other local such shops you had to watch whomever was doing the weighing carefully. It was fairly common for a thumb to make its way onto the scale so that one-half pound of ground beef was really only one-quarter.
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