Holiday Shopping: Separating the Real Deals from the Fake Ones
TINA.org offers some tips on how to avoid a shopping mishap this season.
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CATrends: Deceptive Pricing Tactics
What consumers need to watch out for this holiday shopping season.
JCPenney’s Black Friday Fail
Twitter exchange with consumer exposes how store may deactivate a coupon before it expires.
Study Finds Amazon’s ‘List’ Prices ‘Deceiving’ Consumers
Advocacy group calls on state and federal regulators to investigate company’s pricing practices.
Ad Trends TINA.org Will Be Watching in 2017
A closer look at what we’ll be scrutinizing in the new year.
LA City Attorney Accuses Major Retailers of Pushing Bogus Sales
Lawsuits claim original prices to which sale prices are compared have no basis in reality.
Do ‘Original’ Prices Really Even Exist?
Shopping for a spring wardrobe? Here’s what you need to know about price tags.
Pulp Fiction: Rayon passed off as Bamboo says FTC
Pandas everywhere said “I told you so” when the FTC charged four national retailers with mislabeling rayon fabric as bamboo.
Class-Action Tracker
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Allegations: Falsely advertising discounts off of artificially inflated reference prices and as available for a limited time
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Allegations: Falsely advertising discounts and free products
J. C. Penney’s Discounts
In December 2016, a class-action lawsuit was filed against J. C. Penney for allegedly falsely advertising discounts by marking up the prices of products in order to make its “discounts”…
Discounts at J.C. Penney Stores
November 2016: The appeal was dismissed, the reasons for which have not been disclosed. October 2016: A Notice of Appeal regarding the district court’s decision to approve the settlement was…