A lawsuit in New Jersey state court alleges that the chief executive of Modell’s Sporting Goods masqueraded as a competitor’s employee in order to gather information about its operations.
In a Feb. 8 visit to Dick’s Sporting Goods store in Princeton, Mitchell Modell told workers he was a Dick’s vice president, questioned the workers about their operations and asked to see nonpublic areas. The workers dutifully answered his questions and granted him access to the stockroom, according to the suit, Dick’s Sporting Goods v. Modell’s Sporting Goods, MER-L-000362-14.
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