Thursday, 3 May 2012

More Megastore misleads the public

More Megastore on Narayana Shastri Road, Mysore issued a large front page advertisement in a national newspaper on 1st May offering huge discounts on various items of merchandise. Tempted by the ad, I went to More Megastore on the morning of the 1st and found a large crowd who had also been enticed by the same advertisement. But to our surprise, we were told that the store had no authorization to offer the discounts mentioned in the advertisement. So all of us had to return disapppointed.

How can a supermarket issue an expensive advertisement in a major newspaper and not honour it? Is this not unfair trade practice? Thousands of people must have been lured by the advertisement to make a fruitless trip to the store. Who will reimburse their needless expenditure? Will More Megastore explain?

P M Bhat, Mysore Grahakara Parishat