Black Friday offers could violate Oklahoma law, Attorney General Scott Pruitt says

 
BY JENNIFER PALMER jpalmer@opubco.com
Published: December 21, 2011

A state law that forbids retailers from selling items below cost applies to Black Friday and back-to-school sales, according to a recent opinion by Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt .

That means many of the hot deals offered this year on flat-screen TVs, toys and MP3 players were likely against the law. The opinion, published Dec. 13, states that a store's advertisement of merchandise for sale below cost a...


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