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One of three products sold recently on the Neiman Marcus website that were labeled as “faux fur” but which contained real fur. In this case, the boot’s inner label explicitly states “Real fur.”
The Humane Society of the U.S. has filed the petition [PDF] with the FTC, asking the agency to investigate and “take prompt action” against Neiman Marcus. This could include the imposition of monetary penalties for alleged violations of the Fur Products Labeling Act and the 2013 FTC order.
According to the petition, the HSUS says it was able to identify three products for sale on the Neiman website that were advertised as containing “faux fur,” but which testing later revealed to contain actual animal fur.
One boot was sold as “faux fur” on the website and its label stated “Contains Faux Fur, 55% Polyester 45% Acrylic.” HSUS testing of the product turned up real fur, a fact that Neiman later confirmed to HSUS.
A second boot design from the same maker was described on NeimanMarcus.com as a “weatherproof stretch microfiber boot with faux-fur (polyester/acrylic) trim,” however the actual label for the product reads “Real Fur, Dyed Rabbit.” Testing by HSUS confirmed the presence of animal fur. See above for image.
The third product mentioned in the petition is another supposedly “faux fur”-lined boot whose label disagrees with this claim. This time, the label inside the boot read, “Real Fur from rabbit, Fur Origin China.”
As of right now (April 13, 2015), this particular boot is still listed on the Neiman Marcus site as a “faux fur product”:
“Many Americans are opposed to buying or wearing animal fur because they object to rabbits, foxes, coyotes and other animals suffering and dying for frivolous trimmings on jackets and shoes,” reads a statement from HSUS. “American consumers deserve to have the facts, and should be able to make socially-conscious decisions while shopping.”
We’ve reached out to Neiman Marcus regarding the allegations made in the petition and will update if we hear anything back.
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Everyone who uses e-mail regularly has done something like this at some point. My favorite story is about how I once sent a photo of a flower instead of an invoice to Consumer Reports. However, when most of us send the wrong document to the wrong person, it results in some confusion or embarrassment. In this case, the Securities and Exchange Commission was involved, since the company had to notify the government about the non-public information that escaped and was made public.
The company’s stock price fell slightly, since what investors want are increasing sales figures, and JCP’s growth is slowing down as it tries to recover from its slump of the last decade or so.
The company isn’t identifying the executive who made the e-mail slip. The worst result could be the fall in stock price, as mentioned before, and a fine if the SEC discovers that the company didn’t let them know about the escaped information in a timely manner.
J.C. Penney says executive inadvertently disclosed same-store sales [Reuters]
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