Whole Foods Got Caught Over-Charging for Already-Expensive Food Again

The fact that Whole Foods charges brain-bleedingly expensive prices for everything gluten-free, vegan, and/or organic is not news. But according to the New York Daily News, the NYC Department of Consumer Affairs has blown the whistle on the grocery store chain after a string of investigations dating back to 2010 found that supermarkets in the city were overcharging their customers for pre-packaged, bulk products.

The DCA weighed 80 different pre-packaged items at eight different Whole Foods locations (stuff like veggie platters, chicken tenders, and fruit) and found that some were marked as weighing more than they actually did, while others were just all marked with the exact same weight and price—sounds like a storeboy got lazy and decided to print a bunch of identical price tags. The duplicate price tag issue wasn't always screwing over customers, though—the Daily News found that a few sandwiches and chicken breasts weighed a lot more than their tags said and were being sold at a serious discount.

Whole Foods faced a similar predicament last summer, when the company forked over $800,000 in a California settlement for the same violations. Hopefully this stuff won't happen at the lower-cost, millennial-baiting Whole Foods store chain coming next year.

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