The State - News from June 1, 1987

Under terms of a settlement of a 1985 lawsuit, Safeway and one of its subsidiaries, Brentway Inc., have agreed to the terms of a permanent injunction involving the marking of prices on shelf items, the California attorney general’s office said. Although not admitting the truth of allegations filed by the attorney general’s Consumer Law Section, Safeway and Brentway, operators of Pak ‘n’ Save stores, agreed to comply with requirements that at least 85% of shelf products not exempted under state law be marked with item prices. Safeway and Brentway also agreed to maintain a list of items that are exempt from price-marking requirements and to post a prominent notice that not every shelf item is price marked. Pak ‘n’ Save stores were accused in a consumer law complaint of violating the state’s Automatic Checkout Act by failing to mark the required percentage of shelf items with a readable price.