A charge listed as Meijer 106 on your bank or credit card statement is a purchase made at the Meijer supercenter at 9200 N Main Street in Englewood, Ohio. The number 106 is Meijer’s internal store identifier for that location, and it rides along with the store name in the transaction descriptor.1Meijer. Store Locator – Store 106 If no one in your household shopped there, or the amount doesn’t match a receipt, the charge is worth investigating — but the descriptor itself is a legitimate Meijer label, not a sign of fraud on its own.
What the Descriptor Means
Meijer transactions generally post with the store name followed by the store number. Store #106 is Englewood, Ohio. A different descriptor you may see is “BHN*MEIJERGC,” which is not a store purchase at all. That one indicates a Meijer gift card or e-gift card bought through Blackhawk Network, the third-party distributor that handles Meijer gift card fulfillment.2Blackhawk Network. Meijer Gift Card
If the charge doesn’t line up with any purchase you can identify, Meijer’s customer contact center can look it up. The number is 1-877-363-4537 (1-877-E-MEIJER), open 7 a.m. to 1 a.m. Eastern. Have the receipt or the card used ready.3Meijer. Payment Response
If the Charge Is Unfamiliar or Duplicated
Start with the simple checks. Pull receipts from the past week or two and ask anyone else who uses the card whether they stopped at the Englewood store. Many “mystery” charges resolve at this step.
If the charge is still unaccounted for, or if a single purchase shows up two or three times, contact your bank or card issuer to dispute it. During a May 2022 incident in which a Chase Bank processing failure caused duplicate charges at Meijer and several other retailers, Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel’s office advised that going directly to your own bank was “the fastest way to get money back into your account.”4Detroit News. Meijer Credit Debit Card Problems You can also call Meijer at the number above to flag the problem on the merchant side.
Debit card holders should move quickly. In the 2022 incident, cards appeared to decline at the register, cashiers re-ran the transactions, and each attempt actually went through — some shoppers accumulated hundreds or thousands of dollars in erroneous charges along with overdraft fees.5WWMT. Charged Three Times: Some Meijer Shoppers Still Waiting for Refunds Federal consumer protections for debit cards are generally weaker than for credit cards, so the sooner the dispute is filed, the better.
If You Were Overcharged at Checkout
A different kind of overcharge happens when an item rings up at a higher price than the shelf tag or sale sign. Store #106 sits in Ohio, but Meijer’s home state of Michigan has a specific law covering this situation that applies to purchases made at Michigan stores: the Shopping Reform and Modernization Act, usually called the Scanner Law, in effect since September 1, 2011.6Michigan.gov. Michigan’s Scanner Law
Under the Michigan law, a retailer that charges more than the displayed price must refund the difference and pay a “bonus” of ten times the price difference, with a $1 minimum and a $5 maximum. If you bought several identical items, the price-difference refund applies to each item, but the bonus is paid once per transaction.7Michigan.gov. Item Pricing and Scanning Accuracy Questions and Answers To claim it, notify the store within 30 days with your receipt. The store has two days to pay. If it refuses, you can sue in small claims court for $250 or actual damages (whichever is greater), plus up to $300 in attorney’s fees.8Legal News. Michigan Scanner Law
Meijer has said it “is committed to pricing integrity and takes accurate pricing seriously” and directs shoppers who spot a discrepancy to the in-store customer service counter.9Detroit Free Press. Michigan Has a Scanner Law: Here’s How It Works For a purchase at the Englewood location, Ohio law rather than Michigan’s statute would apply, so the Scanner Law remedies are not available for that specific store; the practical first step is still the customer service counter and your receipt.
Known Billing Issues to Be Aware Of
Two episodes are worth knowing about if you’re trying to make sense of a Meijer charge.
The first is the May 2022 duplicate-charge event. Over the weekend of May 21–22, a technical failure at Chase Bank, Meijer’s payment processor, caused repeat charges at Meijer and at Lowe’s, Costco, Starbucks, Walmart, and Taco Bell.10Fox 17 Online. Meijer, Other Stores: Customers Frustrated After Duplicate Charges on Bank Statements11WHIO. Multiple Retailers Overcharging Customers Chase said it restored card processing by 4 p.m. Eastern on May 21 and worked on reversals.12WCIA. Meijer, Chase Respond to Duplicate Charges Issue Refunds dragged for weeks for some customers, and Meijer later reported that credit card issues had been resolved and debit card corrections processed with financial institutions, though individual banks sometimes needed extra time to post the adjustments.3Meijer. Payment Response If you ever see a repeat charge of the same amount, same day, that incident is the pattern to watch for, and your bank is the fastest fix.
The second is a pending class action. In April 2024, plaintiff Brandon Durham sued Meijer Great Lakes Limited Partnership in DuPage County, Illinois, alleging that Meijer gas stations advertise fractional per-gallon prices (for example, $3.499) and then round the final purchase price up to the next cent. The complaint calls it a bait-and-switch and estimates class-wide losses above $5 million, bringing claims under the Illinois Consumer Fraud and Deceptive Business Practices Act, the Illinois Uniform Deceptive Trade Practices Act, unjust enrichment, common law fraud, and breach of contract. The class period runs from April 2, 2019, onward.13Class Advocates. Durham v. Meijer Complaint If your Meijer 106 charge is a fuel purchase that came in slightly higher than the posted per-gallon price, that case is where the question is being litigated.