At a Central Florida Publix, a shopper picked up pork tenderloin tagged at $4.99 a pound. The register scale told a different story, and she ended up paying almost $20 for meat she expected to cost about $14. She took Publix to court over the gap. A judge tossed the case months later, pointing to…
North Carolina’s average residential electricity rate rose to 15.09 cents per kilowatt-hour this year, per the latest federal data. That’s the rate every mistake in this article gets multiplied by. Every kilowatt-hour your heating system pulls this fall runs through that same number, whether it’s working efficiently or fighting itself the whole time. These are…
New York City residents alone are sitting on over $55 million in forgotten gift card money as of early this year. And that number is only for legally sold gift cards that the state Comptroller’s office knows about. These are the gift card traps catching New Yorkers off guard even when they think they’re being…
Do you think your car insurance bill already includes every discount you qualify for? It may not. Insurers often build dozens of savings programs into a policy, then wait for a driver to enroll, submit proof, or ask before a single one takes effect. That’s true for drivers in every state, not just Tennessee, since…
The average American household spends $273 a month on subscriptions, according to a national survey from West Monroe. Eighty-nine percent of people underestimate that number. These are the subscriptions many Virginians and Americans across the country keep paying for long after they’ve quit using them. Note: This is general information, not financial or legal advice….
A Dallas-Fort Worth roofing company collected close to $500,000 from Texas homeowners for storm repairs it never finished. That case is still moving through the court system. These are the storm repair scams that come back to Texas neighborhoods every hurricane season, right on schedule. Note: This is general information, not legal or financial advice….
A home warranty in Michigan doesn’t guarantee a working furnace, just a phone call, a service fee, and a coin flip on whether the company agrees to pay. One of the nation’s biggest home warranty providers recently agreed to pay $11.8 million after a state investigation found it sold contracts it had no intention of…
A South Carolina property tax bill that goes unpaid sets off a fast, predictable chain: A penalty within days, then a legal notice, then a public sale of the property itself if nobody ever settles the debt. The first penalty hits fast. Note: This is general information, not legal or tax advice. Property tax penalties,…
A longtime Reading shopper drives fifteen minutes out of her way to Weis Markets rather than deal with Aldi, certain the discount grocer won’t lift a finger if something in her cart goes wrong. She’s wrong. Aldi’s written policies say otherwise, and Pennsylvania shoppers over 60 are among the least likely to ever put them…
The longest part of a Market Basket deli order shouldn’t be realizing there was a faster way to get it. Yet Massachusetts shoppers routinely wait for items they could grab immediately, overlook special options, or show up too late for the order they need. These deli counter mistakes can cost shoppers time, limit their choices,…
