FRANKLIN JOURNAL • April 7, 2022
Walgreens customers were being charged 15 cents at locations across Western Maine for bottles that should legally be charged 5 cents. Reporters for Sun Media Group’s Western Maine weeklies returned to Walgreens stores in Farmington, Livermore Falls, Bethel and Norway on Tuesday and were charged the 5-cent fee on applicable bottles. A project manager for sustainability for the Maine DEP, said Wednesday that Walgreens had rebooted its system, causing the incorrect fee.