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Home Depot In Class Action Lawsuit Over Shoplifting
A new class action targets Home Depot. The lawsuit claims that the company allegedly ran a shakedown operation targeting accused shoplifters.
A new lawsuit aimed at Home Depot claims the company engaged in shakedown tactics to pressure and intimidate thousands of customers, accused of shoplifting, into paying millions of dollars to have those accusations dropped. The class-action suit says Home Depot would threaten customers with a lawsuit if they didn’t pay up, even when they had no intention of actually suing anyone.
The complaint filed in a California Superior Court alleges that Home Depot twisted the state’s Civil Shopping Law as a way of turning itself into a “profit center,” using “damages” it wrangled from accused customers to create a tidy cash pile. MOREHERE
