Author: Marcy Doyle

A nationwide pharmacy survey once called hundreds of drugstores and found a generic cholesterol pill selling for $7 at one North Carolina pharmacy and $393 at another pharmacy. It was the same drug, the same dose, and the same day. Shoppers from Pennsylvania to Oregon run into that same kind of gap at their own…

South Carolina’s average dealer doc fee runs about $517 a car, well above the approximately $400 national average. That number is just the paperwork. Add dealer-installed accessories, a tire fill, or an etching kit to the invoice, and a finance manager will often frame the charge as something every buyer has to accept. Not true….