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Who picked it up when
The Guardian mentioned it first (Oct 22, 2026, 1:19 PM EDT). Right-leaning outlets followed 4 days later. No least biased outlet mentioned it.
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Results
3 articles mention Dollar General in the last 7 days (Oct 20 to Oct 26).
| Article | |||
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| CBS News | Dollar General overcharged people at checkout for years, FTC saysCBS News The discount retailer routinely charges customers more at checkout than the prices it displays on shelves, price tags and ads, according to federal and state authorities. | 0.90● | |
| CNBC | FTC and 20 states sue Dollar General, alleging retailer overcharged shoppersCNBC The Federal Trade Commission and 20 states have filed a lawsuit against Dollar General, claiming the retailer has charged customers more than advertised prices. | 0.90● | |
| The Guardian | Dollar General agrees to a nearly $1.9m settlement for overcharging New York customersThe Guardian Government inspections showed overcharges as high as 39% on some items. The discount store giant was the subject of a 2025 investigation by the Guardian Dollar General, the nation’s largest dollar-store chain, has agreed to a $1.875m deal to settle allegations that it “repeatedly and persistently” overcharged customers across New York state. The New York attorney general’s office found that Dollar General often charged customers higher prices at checkout than the prices it promised on shelf labels, signs, advertising circulars and its mobile app. The state agency said one check of 114 items across multiple stores revealed overcharges on individual items as high as 26%, 38% and 39%. Continue reading... | 0.90● |
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| The Guardian | 0.1% | 1 | 703 |
| CNBC | 0.3% | 1 | 320 |
| CBS News | 0.2% | 1 | 465 |
Coverage by lean
The share of stories that match the query, in the last 7 days, averaged over the outlets of each political lean with at least 3 stories. The groups differ in size, so a single outlet weighs more in the smaller ones.
- Left-leaning2 of 15 sources
- <0.1%
- Least biased0 of 8 sources
- 0.0%
- Right-leaning1 of 15 sources
- <0.1%
Lean index −3.4: covered more by left-leaning outlets
Each outlet at its MBFC bias score, from −10 (far left) to +10 (far right), as high as the share of its stories that match the query. The lean index is the average score of the outlets covering it, weighted by that share.
lean indexour sources' average (+0.4)leftcenterright
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