Arizona-owned Bashas’ Inc. admitted Friday to overcharging customers by mislabeling steaks and beef at some of its AJ’s Fine Foods stores.
Meat-department managers sold steaks for $10 more per pound by mislabeling the grade of “choice” tenderloin as “prime.” Employees also added trimmings from other meat products to Kobe ground beef, so customers weren’t always getting pure ground beef.
The mislabeled meat, which generated nearly $1.5 million in total sales, was sold for more than two years, between January 2010 and February 2012, at an unspecified number of stores in the Phoenix and Tucson areas, company officials said.
The U.S. Attorney’s Office in Arizona announced Friday that it had entered into a non- prosecution agreement with the company because of its cooperation with investigators.
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