$41.9M Judgment Against Safeway Over Higher Online Prices Is Upheld

Mealey's (August 14, 2017, 10:08 AM EDT) -- SAN FRANCISCO — A Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel on Aug. 4 upheld a trial court’s $41,884,767 class action judgment against Safeway Inc. in a lawsuit over the grocer’s practice of pricing grocery items on its website an average of 10 percent higher than the same items in its stores without notifying consumers (Michael Rodman, et al. v. Safeway, Inc., No. 15-17390, 9th Cir., 2017 U.S. App. LEXIS 14397)....