Week of January 2, 2023
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The poster child for skimpflation is Smart Balance which last fall inconspicuously reduced the oil content of its high-priced buttery spread by almost 40-percent. After hundreds of users complained publicly, the company promised to bring back the original recipe. See what we found on store shelves now.
That is our Mouse Print* story this week.
In many legal cases involving consumer law, a judge tries to decide if a particular practice would be understood or misunderstood by a "reasonable consumer." Take this quiz from Truth in Advertising to see if you are that proverbial "reasonable consumer."
Computers are getting smarter and smarter these days, even to the point of composing original writing on many subjects. So we asked a popular chatbot to write some resolutions for consumers. Here are the surprisingly relevant suggestions it came up with.
Leave it to this New York grandmother to recognize that she was being scammed on the telephone by someone claiming to be her grandson. This former 911 operator knew exactly what to do to.
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