Oct 02, 2024 Can You Promote a Category of Products as "Clean" if They Contain Harmful Ingredients? By Jeff Greenbaum In its stores and online, Target categorizes some of the products that its sells as “Target Clean.” According to Target, if a product is...
May 15, 2024 Planning to Advertise a Fictitious Former Price? By Jeff Greenbaum One shopper at Aeropostale said she bought a sweatshirt for $23.98 that was advertised as being 60% off of an original price of $59.95. ...
Jan 02, 2024 New CA Law Targets Gender Stereotyping in Toy Retailing By Terri Seligman A new year means new laws, rules and regulations. Advertising and consumer protection laws are no exception. We already posted about...
Oct 22, 2022 Retailer Settles With NYC Over Charges That it Violated the City's Cashless Ban Law By Jeff Greenbaum The New York City Department of Consumer and Worker Protection announced that it reached a settlement with Van Leeuwen Ice Cream,...
May 22, 2022 NYC Proposes Amendments to City's Laws and Rules to Provide Some Relief to Retailers By Jeff Greenbaum In January, New York City Mayor Eric Adams issued a "Small Business Forward" Executive Order, calling on the New York City Department of...
Dec 13, 2021 Massachusetts AG Enters Into $50M Settlement with Eonsmoke, Resolving Allegations About Marketing to Kids By Jeff Greenbaum Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healy announced that she reached a settlement with e-cigarette retailer Eonsmoke and its owners,...
Apr 06, 2021 FTC Reaches $400K Settlement With BASF and its Exclusive Retailer Over Fish Oil Supplement Claims By Jeff Greenbaum The Federal Trade Commission announced that it reached a settlement with multi-national chemical company BASF and the exclusive retailer...
Feb 23, 2021 No Injury-No Access: A Federal Judge Closes The Door on ADA Claims Over COVID Shopping Hours. By Tricia Legittino At the onset of the COVID pandemic, Walmart, along with many retailers, advertised that it would make its stores accessible during...
Oct 29, 2019 FTC Warns Retailers About Selling Contacts (for Halloween) Without a Prescription By Jeff Greenbaum Remember when your parents made you wear your jacket over your Halloween costume because it was cold out? (Vampires have capes, so they...
Aug 27, 2019 New York Attorney General Hits Dollar Stores For Selling Expired and Obsolete Products By Terri Seligman Following the Vermont AG's settlement with Dollar General in June, New York Attorney General Leticia James has just announced that the...
Aug 16, 2019 Senators Ask for Answers About the Meaning of "Amazon's Choice" By Jeff Greenbaum United States Senators Robert Menendez and Richard Blumenthal recently wrote to Amazon, asking questions about how Amazon determines when...
Mar 28, 2019 Are Retailers Responsible for Advertising Claims on the Packaging of the Products They Sell in Their Stores PART TWO: NAD Weighs In By Terri Seligman Whether or not retailers are responsible for the claims appearing on the products they sell is a vexing topic. As reported by my...
Mar 11, 2019 Are Retailers Responsible for Advertising Claims on the Packaging of the Products They Sell in Their Stores? By Jeff Greenbaum Are retailers responsible for advertising claims made on the packaging of the third party products that they sell in their stores? In...
Oct 29, 2018 NYC Sues Furniture Store Chain Over Financing and Other Claims By Jeff Greenbaum The New York City Department of Consumer Affairs sued Maddy's Home Furniture, a chain of furniture stores in New York City, alleging that...
Feb 21, 2018 "Buy Now, Pay Later" Doesn't Mean "Buy Now, Pay MORE Later" By Jeff Greenbaum Canada's Competition Bureau announced that it has reached a settlement with two furniture retailers over allegations that they misled...