{"id":265132,"date":"2026-01-26T18:43:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-26T18:43:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/265132\/"},"modified":"2026-01-26T18:43:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-26T18:43:08","slug":"brown-thomas-arnotts-guilty-of-breaching-pricing-laws-on-black-friday-sales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/265132\/","title":{"rendered":"Brown Thomas Arnotts guilty of breaching pricing laws on Black Friday sales"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"File pic of Brown Thomas on Grafton Street in Dublin. Photo: Robert Alexander\/Getty Images\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/a068f49b-c5d8-4748-935c-9cfc08f41b8a.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">File pic of Brown Thomas on Grafton Street in Dublin. Photo: Robert Alexander\/Getty Images<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Brown Thomas Arnotts has admitted breaching sales pricing laws following online compliance sweeps by the consumer watchdog during the 2024 Black Friday Sales.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">The department store group, which operates several outlets across the country, appeared before Dublin District Court following a prosecution brought by the Competition and Consumer Protection Commission (CCPC).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"File pic of Brown Thomas on Grafton Street in Dublin. Photo: Robert Alexander\/Getty Images Brown Thomas Arnotts has&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":265133,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[36448,34320,42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-265132","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-arnotts-ireland","9":"tag-brown-thomas","10":"tag-headlines","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-top-news","13":"tag-top-stories","14":"tag-topnews","15":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265132","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=265132"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265132\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/265133"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=265132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=265132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=265132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}