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• The Associated Press reports that a Missouri judge has ordered Walgreen "to pay $309,000 for violating an agreement between the drugstore chain and the state of Missouri over allegedly deceptive pricing." The penalty was $1,000 "for each of the 309 times Walgreens was found to have left sales tags on the shelves after the sales period ended, Attorney General Chris Koster said. Koster says that was in violation of a 2014 deal mean to halt suspected overcharging of customers."

Walgreen said it would continue working to fix its pricing issues, and expressed gratitude that the judge also didn't cite the company for contempt.
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