Blass v. Rite Aid of Connecticut, Inc.

This case arises out of a retail sales transaction on May 15, 2008, in which the defendant, Rite Aid of Connecticut, Inc. (“Rite Aid”), collected $0.24 in sales tax from the plaintiff, Pamela Blass, on the $3.96 gross sales price of four items valued at $0.99 apiece before subtracting the full face value of two $1.00 coupons she had submitted in partial payment for the purchase. The plaintiff, who seeks to represent herself and a class of similarly situated Rite Aid customers in this matter, 1 claims that Rite Aid’s practice of charging sales tax on the gross sales prices of customers’…