Dog food on special? Yeah right.

The Commerce Commission launched the investigation after complaints that Countdown supermarkets may be misleading shoppers with specials tags which might not represent a saving. Chief Executive of Consumer New Zealand Sue Chetwin says the organisation received dozens of responses to details posted on its Facebook page of a Countdown special on Purina dog food which turned out to be the normal price. She says Countdown says it was a simple error, and it better be otherwise this could be considered fraud and the supermarket could be fined for it. In other news, Egypt's former president Hosni Mubarak has been sentenced to life in prison after a court convicted him on charges of complicity in the killing of protesters during last year's uprising that forced him from power.