{"id":1828,"date":"2024-04-09T15:14:26","date_gmt":"2024-04-09T15:14:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailywashingtoninsider.com\/index.php\/2024\/04\/09\/do-you-buy-packaged-meat-or-bagged-fruit-from-walmart-you-may-be-entitled-to-a-settlement-payment\/"},"modified":"2024-04-09T15:14:26","modified_gmt":"2024-04-09T15:14:26","slug":"do-you-buy-packaged-meat-or-bagged-fruit-from-walmart-you-may-be-entitled-to-a-settlement-payment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailywashingtoninsider.com\/index.php\/2024\/04\/09\/do-you-buy-packaged-meat-or-bagged-fruit-from-walmart-you-may-be-entitled-to-a-settlement-payment\/","title":{"rendered":"Do you buy packaged meat or bagged fruit from Walmart? You may be entitled to a settlement payment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=''>If you bought packaged meat or bagged fruit from Walmart in the past five years or so, you may be eligible for a settlement payment. <\/p>\n<p class=''>The retail giant has agreed in principle to pay back a fraction of what affected customers spent on the purchases as part of an agreement with plaintiffs who claimed it illicitly inflated the price of weighted goods at checkout.<\/p>\n<div id='taboolaReadMoreBelow'><\/div>\n<p class=''>Walmart has denied any wrongdoing, saying it agreed to the settlement to avoid a trial.<\/p>\n<p class=''>According to the settlement&#8217;s website, anyone who can produce a receipt of a purchase or can attest to having made a purchase of packaged meat, poultry, pork and seafood and\/or bagged citrus products, like organic oranges, grapefruit, tangerines and navel oranges, is eligible to receive a payment. The purchase must have occurred between Oct. 19, 2018, and Jan. 19, 2024.<\/p>\n<p class='endmark'>The settlement entitles such claimants to 2% of the total cost of their purchased goods, up to $500 \u2014 though the cap may change once all claims have been filed and reviewed.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<div>This post appeared first on NBC NEWS<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you bought packaged meat or bagged fruit from Walmart in the past five years&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1829,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1828","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailywashingtoninsider.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1828","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailywashingtoninsider.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailywashingtoninsider.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailywashingtoninsider.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailywashingtoninsider.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1828"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailywashingtoninsider.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1828\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailywashingtoninsider.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1829"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailywashingtoninsider.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailywashingtoninsider.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailywashingtoninsider.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}