UK: Asda rapped over Price Guarantee ads
By: just-food.com | 2 February 2011
The UK's advertising watchdog has ruled that adverts run by retailer Asda are "misleading and untruthful" and must not appear again in their current form.
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The UK's advertising watchdog has ruled that adverts run by retailer Asda are "misleading and untruthful" and must not appear again in their current form.
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