Walmart class action claims retailer increases product weights to inflate prices

Walmart prices class action lawsuit overview: 

• Who: Vassilios Kukorinis filed a class action lawsuit against Walmart Inc. 
• Why: Kukorinis claims Walmart uses its point-of-sale system to artificially inflate the weight of sold-by-weight and similar products it sells to charge a higher price than what is advertised. 
• Where: The class action lawsuit was filed in Florida federal court. 

Walmart artificially inflates the weight of grocery items, bagged produce, clearance items and seafood products it sells to charge customers more than their lowest advertised price per pound/ounce, a new class action lawsuit alleges. 

Plaintiff Vassilios Kukorinis claims Walmart, through its point-of-sale (POS) system, “deceptively, systemically and artificially increases the weight of the product at checkout, resulting in the Customer paying an inflated price.” 

Walmart effectively deceives its customers into paying more at the register than what the company advertises as the price per pound affixed as a price sticker to the product, the inflated Walmart prices class action claims.

“Walmart uses unfair and deceptive business practices to deceivingly, misleadingly and unjustly pilfer, to Walmart’s financial benefit, its customers’ hard-earned grocery dollars,” the lawsuit states. 

Walmart class action alleges retailer programs POS system to ‘falsify weights’

Walmart’s POS system software has been programmed to “falsify weights, unit prices and ultimate product prices,” the Walmart class action alleges. 

Kukorinis argues further that “that the frequency and consistent pattern of the falsification practices are not mere errors. Rather, they are symptomatic of a programmed fraudulent scheme.” 

Kukorinis claims Walmart is guilty of unjust enrichment and in violation of Florida’s Deceptive and Unfair Trade Practices Act as well as multiple state consumer protection statutes.

He demands a jury trial and requests injunctive and declaratory relief along with an award of actual, compensatory and punitive damages for himself and all class members. 

Kukorinis wants to represent a nationwide class and Florida and multistate consumer protection subclasses of individuals who have purchased a sold-by-weight, bagged produce or clearance product from Walmart and paid a higher price than what was advertised. 

A consumer filed a separate class action lawsuit against Walmart last month, arguing the company unlawfully collects and uses the biometric data of its customers without obtaining their consent. 

Have you paid more for a Walmart product at the register than what was advertised on its packaging? Let us know in the comments! 

The plaintiff is represented by Nicholas E. Chimicles, Kimberly M. Donaldson-Smith, and Zachary P. Beatty of Chimicles Schwartz Kriner & Donaldson-Smith LLP. 

The Walmart prices class action lawsuit is Kukorinis v. Walmart, Inc., Case No. 8:22-cv-02402, in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of Florida. 

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