<body><div>DOLLAR General has asked a fuming shopper to get in touch with them after overpaying for two liter bottles of coke when his receipt didn't reflect a promotion.The irate customer from Semmes, Alabama, claims he bought three of the two liter bottles purely because they were advertised as being on offer.<figure><img src="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?type=thumbnail_580x000&amp;url=0Uq5hy_0wO4Dfl600" alt="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?url=0Uq5hy_0wO4Dfl600" width="1240" height="873" ><figcaption>An angry Dollar General vented on X about being overcharged for Coke bottles Credit: Alamy</figcaption></figure>But when he got to the cash register, the three for $6 deal seemed to vanish - and he forked out $3 for each, totaling a staggering $10.<nbtemplate data-id="AdPlaceholder" data-content="JTdCJTdE"></nbtemplate>In a post on X, formerly known as <a href="https://www.the-sun.com/topic/twitter-2/">Twitter</a>, he wrote: "Scam alert. DollarGeneral is up to their old tricks stealing from us. "2 liter bottles of Coke are advertised as three for $6 but it doesn't ring that way at the register."He went on to blast <a href="https://www.the-sun.com/topic/dollar-general/">Dollar General</a>, claiming this was a "terrible way to conduct business".The shopper then instructed the American discount retailer to "fix your registers and please charge your customers correctly. "You stole $3 from me today".Dollar General's official X account replied asking him to message them so they could look at rectifying things.It comes after <a href="https://www.the-sun.com/money/12759407/lowes-apologizes-shoppers-blast-ordering-system/">Lowe's was forced to apologize</a> after shoppers blasted the chain's ordering system for being the "worst" and one even claimed his calls to the retailer went "unanswered".<nbtemplate data-id="AdPlaceholder" data-content="JTdCJTdE"></nbtemplate>Two customers were left outraged by the home improvement retailer as they claimed their orders never turned up.One of the disgruntled shoppers went on to claim that he made phone calls in an effort to find out what was going wrong but they all went "unanswered".A <a href="https://www.the-sun.com/topic/lowes/">Lowe's</a> representative replied on their official account: "Sorry to hear you've had order issues, Robert."We're here to help! Please DM us the name on the order, phone number, email, order number, and store location (if purchased in-store)."This comes after <a href="https://www.the-sun.com/money/12758354/cart-chaos-kroger-apologizes-shopper/">Kroger apologized</a> to a shopper who "abandoned" a $200 grocery cart and blamed it on a "ridiculous" new checkout policy that forced him to scan each item himself.A disgruntled customer in Ohio took to X, formerly known as Twitter, to slam the huge grocery chain for relying on self-checkouts rather than hiring more cashiers.<nbtemplate data-id="AdPlaceholder" data-content="JTdCJTdE"></nbtemplate>The post read: "The Mt. Washington <a href="https://www.the-sun.com/topic/kroger/">Kroger</a> in Cincinnati never has actual cashiers in the evening hours."I had to abandon my cart of $200 because there is not a single cashier anywhere."Only self-checkout is available. I notified the self-checkout employee that my cart was being abandoned."Alongside the caption was a snap revealing a line of several customers waiting to for the self-checkouts and the poster's cart is shown full to the brim.<figure><img src="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?type=thumbnail_580x000&amp;url=2pLyqA_0wO4Dfl600" alt="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?url=2pLyqA_0wO4Dfl600" width="2048" height="1552" ><figcaption>His receipt shows that he paid $10 for the three bottles Credit: x.com/KurzonTheWise</figcaption></figure><nbtemplate data-id="AdPlaceholder" data-content="JTdCJTdE"></nbtemplate></div></body>

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DOLLAR General has asked a fuming shopper to get in touch with them after overpaying for two liter bottles of coke when his receipt didn't reflect a promotion. The irate customer from Semmes, Alabama, claims he bought three of the two liter bottles purely because they were advertised as being on offer.