A court in Shanghai's Pudong has ordered retail giant Wal-Mart to refund a customer 920.6 yuan (US$120) and pay him 187 yuan compensation for forging identifying details on two products he had bought, the Wenhui Daily reported on Tuesday.
The customer, surnamed Lu, spent 1,187 yuan on 10 boxes of tooth whitening powder and 10 boxes of cookies in Wal-Mart's Pudong outlet on December 22.
He found the Chinese-language labels on the two products were different from the original labels.
On the whitening powder package, the Chinese label claimed it was produced in Japan, while the original Japanese label said the producing area was Thailand, the report said.
The Chinese label on the cookie boxes read "date of production" but the original English label had "expiry date."
The cookies had expired when sold in the supermarket, the report said.
Lu then sued Wal-Mart alleging that the retailer had violated China's Product Quality Law and Consumer Law, and he sought to obtain a refund and equivalent compensation from the retailer.
Wal-Mart has filed an appeal against the decision in the case.
China has ordered retailers to paste Chinese-language labels on imported food products to explain what elements are in the products.
By Winny Wang |
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