Update: Dollar General Sued by FTC, 20 States for Alleged Deceptive Pricing

07:42 AM EDT, 10/27/2026 (MT Newswires) -- (Update with Dollar General's statement in the last paragraph.) Dollar General (DG) was sued by the Federal Trade Commission and 20 states for allegedly engaging in "long-running deceptive pricing practices," the agency said Monday. Specifically, Dollar General regularly charges customers more "than the prices displayed on shelves, price tags and advertisements," the FTC said. "The lawsuit filed today by the Federal Trade Commission and several States suggests that we have abandoned our mission and willfully disregarded the affordability needs of our customers," Dollar General said in a statement. "Nothing could be further from the truth."