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Do you check your grocery bill? If not, you may be ‘leaving money behind’

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A majority of Canadians have found mistakes on their grocery receipts when they’ve checked in the past year, according to a new survey that suggests some shoppers are leaving savings behind while food inflation rages.

The latest report from the Agri-Food Analytics Lab at Dalhousie University released Tuesday shows that 67 per cent of Canadians have found a mistake on their grocery store bill at least once over the past year.

Read more: Inflation seems to be cooling — except at the grocery store. What’s going on? “A lot of people just don’t look at grocery receipts. … They may actually be leaving money behind,” Sylvain Charlebois, the lab’s director, told Global News.

The most common flub found when checking for mistakes, according to the more than 5,500 Canadians surveyed by Caddle for the report in March, was the final price on the receipt differing from the one on the shelf, with 78.5 per cent of respondents saying they noticed this error.

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