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    Laut höchstem Europäischen Gericht verstoßen gefälschte Rabatte des deutschen Supermarkts Aldi gegen EU-Recht


    Laut höchstem Europäischen Gericht verstoßen gefälschte Rabatte des deutschen Supermarkts Aldi gegen EU-Recht

    https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2024/09/26/german-supermarket-aldis-fake-discounts-breach-eu-law-top-european-court-says

    Von MolendaTabethabn

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    13 Comments

    1. AllegoryOfTheShave on

      Capitalists that do this should be flogged in public.

      Im so sick and tired of being a cash cow for the rich.

      I hope we all collectively stop buying food and just eat the rich soon.

    5. LookThisOneGuy on

      >Price reductions in the form of a percentage “must be determined on the basis of the lowest price applied by the trader during a period not shorter than 30 days prior to the application of the price reduction,” the court said.

      means Aldi violated the law.

      But it also means supermarkets can’t discount a product twice within 30 days (_if they want to advertise the discount_, but that is the whole point). Some products are discounted regularly like typical Friday-Saturday purchases the following Monday or fresh produce on the day before the new batch arrives.

      I am torn, on one hand I like law text being simple without dozens of amendments, but on the other hand I think supermarkets should be allowed to advertise this and the fine print below the price saying the product had been sold at that lower price earlier in the month as well indicating it getting regularly reduced was enough information for me.

    6. MTFinAnalyst2021 on

      I live in Germany and the price fuckery is getting annoying. Sales that are now at the regular price of six months ago, etc lol. I am getting to where I will only buy many items if they are at the sale price. And many products, like Oreos and potato chips, I don’t buy anymore because the prices got ridiculous. And I won’t even mention the shrinkflation that is happening.

    7. Terramoro on

      Literally saw a post of Spar doing this above this one. I hope they get fined too.

    8. duckdodgers4 on

      I was actually trying to point out that the eu is doing a great job on forcing tech companies by law which people here seem to ignore. The fact that the fines are applied every year just seems off sometimes. But that’s just me.

    9. Cekec on

      Pretty much every shop is violating this. In my experience ALDI even seems one of the least worst offenders. They probably went after ALDI just because it’s a big name.

    10. XaWEh on

      I just want to to say that I really appreciate the EU for doing stuff like this. No individual country could stand up to large store conglomerates but together it works.

    11. joshistaken on

      Oh no! Corporate abusing their position? Whodathunkit. Bet they’ll get a sternly worded slap on the wrist now.

    12. Easy_Apple_4817 on

      We are having the exact same problem here in Australia with our 2 largest supermarket companies. They are likely to be fined big bucks.

    13. Umanaar on

      Kaufland started doing this big time in Romania.

      They would say a product is -25%, when in practice, it was never ever sold at such high of a price that they say it was cut from. 

      And they are advertising these absurdly fake promotions in their fliers when it’s obvious for everyone who goes to the local store regularly that it’s complete bs.

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