Price Probe Eyes Dep’t Stores

Retail giants Hudson’s Bay Co. and Sears Canada face demands they hand over records on pricing and profit margins in a federal anti-trust probe of the multi-billion dollar mattress business. Attorneys for the Competition Bureau asked that a federal judge compel the companies to surrender documents, alleging “false or misleading” advertising: ‘It’s a strategy known as ‘high-low’ pricing’.

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