Boohoo fined €2.3m by French watchdog over deceptive discounts
Fashion site also broke rules on labelling by using terms ‘leather’ or ‘suede’ for synthetic products The British online fashion seller Boohoo has been fined €2. 3m (£2m) by France’s consumer watchdog for deceptive practices such as offering fake discounts. The Manchester-based firm, whose parent company renamed itself Debenhams Group last year, was found to have exaggerated its discounts, giving shoppers a false impression of the savings they were making.
Fashion site also broke rules on labelling by using terms ‘leather’ or ‘suede’ for synthetic products The British online fashion seller Boohoo has been fined €2. 3m (£2m) by France’s consumer watchdog for deceptive practices such as offering fake discounts. The Manchester-based firm, whose parent company renamed itself Debenhams Group last year, was found to have exaggerated its discounts, giving shoppers a false impression of the savings they were making, according to the directorate-general for competition, consumer affairs and fraud Control.
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