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Article: KOHL'S TOLD TO ACT ON PRICING POLICIES AG ASKS CHAIN TO COMPLY WITH STATE LAW ON SALE ADVERTISING
- Article from:
- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- October 22, 2002
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Attorney General Thomas F. Reilly has notified Kohl's Department
Stores that its sale advertising and pricing policies appear to be in
violation of state law and has asked that the chain bring its 13
Massachusetts stores into compliance.
The letter from Diane L. Lawton, managing attorney for Reilly's
consumer protection division, was apparently based on a four-month
Globe inquiry into Kohl's pricing practices that indicated the
store's savings claims were often exaggerated because they were based
on comparisons to largely fictitious regular prices.
The letter doesn't set out any timetable for compliance or
threaten legal action, but it does note that violations of the
state's sale ...