Gideon Resnick

They look to see how different the labeled cost is for an item versus its cost at checkout, and if the price tags are out of date.

Failed inspections have led to major fines or expensive legal settlements, but that hasn't always delivered much improvement.

And just last week, Dollar General said it had agreed to pay more than $1.5 million after the Pennsylvania attorney general found that the store was overcharging customers in the state.

Neither Family Dollar nor Dollar General agreed to interviews with The Guardian.

In statements, they said they were committed to providing customers with price accuracy.

And Dollar General noted its employees were empowered to correct mistakes at the register.

According to lawsuits, experts, and employees, overpricing often stems from a labor issue within the stores.

When prices change, registers get automatically updated.

But the listed prices on the shelves require staffers to manually replace them.

That difference in cost can be critical for shoppers that have fixed budgets and rely on these stores in their communities.

And finally, a few other stories we're following.

A JetBlue flight traveling over the Caribbean narrowly avoided a midair collision with a U.S.

military aircraft near the Venezuelan coast on Friday.

The Miami Herald reports an Air Force plane crossed directly in front of the JetBlue flight at close range.

That's according to newly released air traffic control recordings.

The military plane was an air-to-air refueling tanker, which the JetBlue pilot reported did not have its transponder on.

Transponders send data to other planes to avoid midair collisions.

US Southern Command confirmed that it was reviewing the matter, which comes amid broader scrutiny of US military operations in the region.

The two students who died in the mass shooting at Brown University have been identified as 18-year-old Muhammad Aziz Umurzikov, a freshman, and 19-year-old Ella Cook, a sophomore.

The AP reports that Umurzikov planned to study medicine after suffering a neurological condition himself that required surgery.