Nike and SuperValu are among firms hit with consumer protection enforcement notices, as the competition watchdog warned that traders \u201cmust operate within the law.\u201d<\/p>\n
In a statement today, the Competition and Consumer Protection Commission (CCPC) detailed 19 enforcement actions against businesses across eight counties, stating that companies must give shoppers the pricing details necessary to make \u201cinformed choices.\u201d<\/p>\n
CCPC Director of Consumer Enforcement Kevin Foley emphasised that businesses of all sizes are required to follow statutory pricing rules.<\/p>\n
\u201cTraders must operate within the law,\u201d Foley said.<\/p>\n
\u201cFrom corner shops to retail giants, businesses must provide the price information required by law so consumers can make informed choices.\u201d<\/p>\n
He added that the commission carries out ongoing monitoring and encouraged citizens to flag suspected violations.<\/p>\n
\u201cCCPC officers conduct year-round inspections and investigations, and we will continue to take enforcement action where appropriate to address breaches of consumer law,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe strongly encourage people to report potential consumer law breaches to us at CCPC.ie or 01 402 5555.\u201d<\/p>\n
The latest regulatory actions comprised 12 fixed payment notices and seven compliance notices issued to businesses in Cork, Dublin, Kerry, Kildare, Kilkenny, Tipperary, Wexford, and Wicklow. The penalties primarily centred on failures to display product prices to customers.<\/p>\n
Among the retailers penalised was Nike Retail B.V., operating as Kildare Nike Factory Store in Kildare Village, which was served with a compliance notice for failing to display the correct selling price of a product.<\/p>\n
In County Wicklow, Klubert Trading Ltd, trading as SuperValu in Greystones, received two fixed payment notices for failing to display product prices.<\/p>\n
Several other prominent grocery and convenience retailers were also penalised for price display failures, including a Eurospar in County Kildare, an O\u2019Briens Daybreak in Dublin, and a Spar in County Cork.<\/p>\n
The enforcement measures also extended to the pharmacy and hospitality sectors. Three pharmacies in Dublin and Wicklow received fixed payment notices for failing to display prices, while four pubs across Kerry, Wexford, and Kilkenny were served with compliance notices for similar pricing display failures.<\/p>\n
Further notices were issued to a furniture retailer in Cork over misleading cancellation rights information and a school supplies shop in Tipperary during back-to-school inspections.<\/p>\n
The CCPC had previously published details of 42 enforcement actions taken earlier in 2026, which included three prosecutions.<\/p>\n
Separately, authorised officers from the watchdog carried out inspections of contracts in more than 30 nursing homes across Ireland in recent weeks.<\/p>\n
The CCPC had previously issued a formal letter to the nursing home sector earlier in 2026, highlighting a number of potential consumer protection issues.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nike and SuperValu are among firms hit with consumer protection enforcement notices, as the competition watchdog warned that…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":680157,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[14258,72,4990,113,176,61,60],"class_list":["post-680156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-ben-scallan","tag-business","tag-economics","tag-economy","tag-finance","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/680156","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=680156"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/680156\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/680157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=680156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=680156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=680156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}