Christmas sale lands House of Fraser
with £40,000 fine.
The High-Street retailer House of Fraser has been fined £40,000 for misleading
customers over sale deals for Christmas decorations.
The famous department store is being prosecuted for not meeting its own
high standards. Newport Magistrates Court was told the issue focused on
Christmas items on sale in 2015 labelled with "Was" and "Now" prices.
However, the sale tickets failed to show lower prices offered during the two
intervening time periods.
Torfaen council, which brought the prosecution, said that gave shoppers the
impression they were getting a better bargain than existed.
Shoppers were not happy about this. The main problem is that House of
Fraser were advertising something that was not available and were not
meeting to their own high standards.