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MSE News: Tesco fined £300,000 for strawberries 'sale' offer

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  • Doc_N
    Doc_N Posts: 8,624 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Name Dropper Photogenic
    scootw1 wrote: »
    And if the judge says it, it's obviously right.I am a Tesco customer and I consider myself fairly intelligent. Bit insulted by your comments really.

    I think you may have missed the word 'average' in my post.
  • scootw1
    scootw1 Posts: 2,165 Forumite
    Doc_N wrote: »
    I think you may have missed the word 'average' in my post.

    That makes me feel so much better
  • Lynsey
    Lynsey Posts: 9,486 Forumite
    I've been Money Tipped!
    edited 23 August 2013 at 7:48AM
    More fines to follow??

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-23797882

    http://www.moneysavingexpert.com/news/shopping/2013/08/furniture-stores-sale-prices-probed-by-oft

    Catch up later ...................................... I'm off to the "sales". :rotfl:

    Edit: Carpetright have confirmed they are one of the firms being investigated - very surprised there. :D
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    Lynsey
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  • Broadwood
    Broadwood Posts: 706 Forumite
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    Emessi wrote: »
    And nobody sent to jail.

    Business is effectively legalised crime.

    Of course if I tried to defraud Tesco I would be in jail.


    Meanwhile......one year later.......:eek:
    Never trust a financial institution.


    Still studying at the University of Life.
  • robin58
    robin58 Posts: 2,802 Forumite
    Broadwood wrote: »
    Meanwhile......one year later.......:eek:

    Tesco's line of defense will be on fraud:-

    "No governor I just put the decimal point in the wrong place"

    :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:
    The more I live, the more I learn.
    The more I learn, the more I grow.
    The more I grow, the more I see.
    The more I see, the more I know.
    The more I know, the more I see,
    How little I know.!! ;)
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