Macys Fined $750K For Selling Illegal Kids Clothing
Heres hoping you havent bought the toddlers in your life any clothing from Macys over the past few years. The Consumer Product Safety Commission announced on Monday that the chain retailer took the shame of a $750,000 fine for selling childrens outerwear with drawstrings at the neck. Given the obvious choking hazard involved, selling kids gear with the devices has been illegal since 2008, and they were flagged as posing a substantial risk of injury to young children in 2006.
As a part of the settlement, Macys denied the CPSC staff allegations that it knowingly violated the law, but the agency still claims that Macys and the now-defunct Robinsons-May stores it owned knew they stocked and sold products for the under 10 set that could easily turn into elastic nooses. Most of those products should have been taken off the racks after they CPSC started to crack down on them in 2006. Per Womens Wear Daily:
Federal law requires manufacturers, distributors and retailers to report to the CPSC within 24 hours after receiving information “reasonably supporting” that a product could create a hazard, unreasonable risk of serious injury or death or fail to comply with a consumer product safety law, regulation or standard.
Macys senior vice president of corporate communications Jim Sluzewski told us in an email that the company has no comment to make beyond the news release from the CPSC. But were guessing anyone whos bought childrens clothing from the store would have a lot to say about todays fine.
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