{"id":234919,"date":"2025-09-17T22:55:12","date_gmt":"2025-09-17T22:55:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/234919\/"},"modified":"2025-09-17T22:55:12","modified_gmt":"2025-09-17T22:55:12","slug":"lowes-must-pay-1m-penalty-to-settle-overcharging-complaint","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/234919\/","title":{"rendered":"Lowe&#8217;s must pay $1M penalty to settle overcharging complaint"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/timesofsandiego.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Lowes-Home_center.jpg?ssl=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"780\" height=\"500\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Lowes-Home_center.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1933\"  \/><\/a>Lowe\u2019s Home Center. (File photo courtesy of media.lowes.com)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lowes.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Lowe\u2019s<\/a> has been ordered to pay just over $1 million to resolve a lawsuit in which the company was accused of overcharging some customers and engaging in false advertising.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/sdcda.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">San Diego County District Attorney\u2019s Office<\/a> made the announcement Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The civil complaint, filed in San Diego Superior Court by a coalition of prosecutors, alleged that the home improvement retailer charged some California customers prices that were higher than their lowest advertised or posted prices.<\/p>\n<p>As part of the judgment, Lowe\u2019s will pay the civil penalty, plus investigative costs and restitution to support future consumer protection enforcement efforts.<\/p>\n<p>An injunction also was issued that requires Lowe\u2019s to create a new price accuracy policy, conduct internal audits and agree not to raise prices on weekends.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Los Angeles District Attorney\u2019s Office, which took part in the complaint, price accuracy violations were found at Lowe\u2019s stores in 10 counties between 2018 and 2022.<\/p>\n<p>Among those, there was an average overcharge of 19.3 percent, with 4.4 percent of items involved.<\/p>\n<p>The settlement was reached with no admission of liability from Lowe\u2019s.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to San Diego and Los Angeles, the complaint was jointly filed by district attorney\u2019s offices in Orange, Alameda, San Bernardino and Sonoma counties.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRetailers must charge consumers the lowest advertised price \u2013 that\u2019s the law,\u201d San Diego County District Attorney Summer Stephan said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>READ NEXT<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lowe\u2019s Home Center. (File photo courtesy of media.lowes.com) Lowe\u2019s has been ordered to pay just over $1 million&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":234920,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5134],"tags":[5229,1582,276,89735,224,55834,1036,126203,17748,3549,38011,7264,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-234919","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-diego","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-california","11":"tag-consumer-protection","12":"tag-los-angeles","13":"tag-lowes","14":"tag-orange-county","15":"tag-overcharging","16":"tag-san-bernardino-county","17":"tag-san-diego","18":"tag-san-diego-county-district-attorneys-office","19":"tag-sandiego","20":"tag-united-states","21":"tag-united-states-of-america","22":"tag-unitedstates","23":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","24":"tag-us","25":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115222106935466870","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234919","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=234919"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234919\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/234920"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}