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- - ~ uumal1ic, -DUicau mII- 1muiVUiacy mnsju11L;UoU1 wnicn sale by the store at $135.00.
on a Bureau of Consumer Pro- reau charged is not planning to rector Joel Weisberg announced prevents The Arrow Store at The Bureau also charged
tection request, halted a "clos- to go ouL of business, Bureau today. 1119 Market St., Philadelphia, te with a si na t h e
f rom conducting a closing-ou store sladvertatngreatona-
sale at that location until after brand slacks thatnare notona-
a court hearing tional brand slacks and with ad-
vertising suits as "1973 Model"
Deputy Attorney General that are not 1973 models.
Robert B. Nicholas of the Bu- The Bureau further accused
rean's Philadelphia, office filed the firm of misleading the
the Bureau's Complaint charg- public by attaching a "sale"
ing the store with falsely adver- ticket to the price tags on its
t i s i n g a going-out-of-business merchandise immediately upon
sale begun Monday and with receiving a shipment of cloth-
advertising p r i c e reductions ing, never having offered the
.......... which are not bona fide. The items at the higher alleged reg-
omplaint was filed against ular price.
..DSLH Enterprises Inc of 485Madison Ave., New York, N.Y.,
operators of The Arrow Store.
The store listed a "sale"
price and a "regular" price
for certain items in its adver-
tising, according to the C o m -
plaint. The Bureau charged
that the prices represented as
the store's regular selling prices
are not, in fact, the prices at
which those items were recent-
ly and regularly o f f e r e d for
sale. Some of the represented
sale prices are, in fact, the
store's usual selling prices f o r
the advertised merchandise, the
Complaint alleged.
The firm advertised "Fam-,.n
It was further alleged t h a t
The Arrow Store fraudulently
obtained a license, issued May
4 by the Philadelphia Depart-
ment of Licneses and Inspec-
tions, to hold a closing-out sale.
The company added goods to
the store's inventory after filing
the application for the license,
and listed as part of its regular
inventory merchandise bought
at other stores' closing-out sales
that had never been part of its
regular inventory, both n viola-
tion of the Licensing, Act, t i e
Complaint charged.
TAYLOR'S
Collision Center
Reasonable prices. Private and
Insurance work. 2517-19 W.
Fletcher St. One bik. South be-
tween 25th & 26th & Dauphin.
CE 2-9866IWA's
sunds and soul;d as he looks at the eight
olations on his mini-bike.
ents, hold the tickets as a
arrested in the incident.-ous make suits, Reg. $135.00.
Now only $69.90," according to
the C o m p 1 a i n t. The Bureau
charged that the suits so ad-
vertised are not "famous make"
but are manufactured in Korea
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