Week of March 25, 2024
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How to Protect Your Child (or Grandchild) From ID Theft
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We're celebrating April Fool's Day a week early with a little bit of consumer humor. Remember those FedEx commercials of 20 years ago with rapid-talker John Moschitta giving his spiel. We found a financial advice radio commercial where the disclosures are rattled off so fast, it makes the FedEx guy seem like a slow-talker. That is our Mouse Print* story this week.
The Washington Post pitted dairy milk against plant milk to see how the beverages compare in 12 categories, including nutrition, cost, environmental impact and even how well they make frothy coffee. Can you guess which one won? In a separate story, another food that helps improve bone health is... prunes!
Travel expert Christopher Elliott polls his readers annually asking which companies, primarily in the travel industry, provided the best service. For airlines, they picked Delta. For car rentals, Enterprise. For cruise lines, Viking. See more than a dozen more categories of service providers ranked for 2024.
A hidden camera investigation in Canada reveals that five big banks up there try to convince customers they need certain bank products and services that they really don't need or that are inappropriate for them. Customers were pitched everything from pricey credit cards to lines of credit, given poor advice about debt and misinformation about mutual funds. Why? Sales pressure from managers force workers to try to meet sales targets. If it is happening there, it may be happening here too.
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