Alleged deceptive marketing by Leon's, The Brick under investigation: Competition Bureau

The Competition Bureau has made deceptive marketing cases a cornerstone of its work in the last few years

The Competition Bureau has obtained a court order in an investigation centring around whether Leon’s Furniture Ltd. and its subsidiary The Brick deceptively marketed their products.

The competition watchdog said Wednesday that the ongoing investigation into the Canadian furniture retailers looks at three kinds of marketing practices.

The first is sales claims made without specifying the discount amount or using distinct font colours to mislead customers into thinking they are benefiting from a sale.