Pharmacy chain CVS Caremark must pay Connecticut $105,000 for selling or stocking products with expired “sell by” dates, and will pay consumers a bounty each time they find expired products on its shelves.
State Attorney General George Jepsen and Consumer Protection Commissioner William Rubenstein announced the settlement Thursday.
For the next three years, CVS will offer a $2 discount coupon toward any purchase, for each expired over-the-counter drug, baby food or formula, egg or dairy product a consumer finds on store shelves and turns in to cashiers.Â
Consumers do not have to make a purchase to receive the coupon and there is no limit on the number of coupons a consumer can receive for finding expired products in the stores.
Connecticut sued CVS in 2009 after the attorney general’s office investigated and found expired products on shelves at more than 20 of its stores.
The retail cooperated with the probe and settlement, Jepsen said.
