This March 10, 2020 photo made by an investigator with the Michigan Attorney General's Office shows gallons of Clorox bleach on display priced at $8.99 each at a Menards store in Jackson, Mich. A price sticker on an empty shelf elsewhere in the store listed it as $4.47. (Michigan Attorney General's Office via AP)
March 19, 2020
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March 19, 2020 6:19 p.m.
$10 toilet paper? Coronavirus gouging complaints surge in US
One store advertised hand sanitizer at $60 a bottle. Another was accused of hawking it at $1 a squirt. Chain stores offered $26 thermometers and face masks at the “everyday low price” of $39.95 a pair, while a convenience store touted toilet paper at $10 a roll next to a sign reading: “This is not a joke.”