UK retailer WHSmith suffered embarrassing press coverage in January after the Conservative Party’s leader, David Cameron, criticised the company’s policy of selling discount chocolate oranges with newspapers, despite Britain’s “obesity crisis”.

In some stores, real oranges have now taken their place. Yet months on, customers continue to find stacks of half-price chocolate at counters pressed upon them by staff as they buy newspapers in WHSmith’s outlets.

Meanwhile, WHSmith is ranked 44th in Business in the Community’s list of top 100 companies for corporate responsibility, published in the Sunday Times newspaper in May, and is specially commended for outstanding performance in “responsible selling and marketing” as part of its marketplace management policies.

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