North Carolina can fine a store $2,500 for reselling a single mattress that was never sanitized and tagged. That’s one law among many. Goodwill, the Salvation Army, and Habitat for Humanity’s ReStores each keep their own list of items they can’t put on the sales floor, and the reasons range from state law to liability….
A Publix cashier waved a cart with 20 items into the express lane last week, and nobody said a word about it. Floridians have picked apart the “10 items or less” sign for years, half convinced cashiers never enforced it in the first place. Something shifted at Publix’s express lanes this August, though, and shoppers…
Dollar General has agreed to pay overcharging settlements in Wisconsin, Ohio, Vermont, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Missouri, and Colorado, and a nationwide class action added $15 million on top of that. Alabama hasn’t produced a settlement of its own yet, and Dollar General has spent decades filling a gap for Alabama towns too small for a…
Giant Eagle’s loyalty app now pushes out more than 25 million personalized offers a month. Skip opening an offer, and it never applies at checkout. These are the Giant Eagle perks some Pennsylvanians never cash in, whether the perk is already sitting in their account or one signup away. 1. Double Perks on Own Brand…
Food Lion’s MVP loyalty program crossed a million monthly active shoppers in 2025, and the company only counts customers who show up and turn on their savings that same month. Many Virginia MVP cardholders never make that list. These are the Food Lion MVP perks many Virginians over 60 leave sitting untouched, week after week….
Ever plan a midnight run to Meijer, assuming the doors are unlocked the way they’ve always been? That assumption alone trips up more Illinois shoppers than almost anything else on this list. Old habits die hard, and Meijer has changed more about the way it runs its stores than many regulars realize. These are the…
Curbside pickup is supposed to save a Texas shopper time and the walk through a hot parking lot. It doesn’t always work out that way. H-E-B runs one of the busiest and smoothest curbside operations in the state. But if you’re new to curbside pickup, it’s easy to make these mistakes. 1. Tipping the Curbside…
Think you’d never leave Giant Eagle with something you didn’t pay for? More than a third of self-checkout shoppers already have, by accident, and 61% admit they kept walking instead of going back inside. A self-checkout kiosk can’t tell the difference between a distracted mistake and an actual attempt to walk off without paying. These…
Since 2009, Publix has donated more than 1 billion pounds of food that never made it anywhere near a clearance shelf. That number alone rewrites how a shopper should be reading Publix’s tags. Every mark printed on those tags carries its own meaning, and almost none of it means what a shopper assumes walking up…
Roughly 80% of what’s stacked on a Kwik Trip shelf is Kwik Trip’s own product. It’s why Kwik Trip beats many traditional grocery stores on price and freshness, and it’s part of why we still count it among Wisconsin’s better stops. But people who run on autopilot still lose out under its rewards program. These…
