Consumer protection

As technology progresses, our customer protection laws struggle to keep up with the new and invasive ways that companies and large corporations collect personal data from the public. The NSA’s collection of data and tracking of digital activities has raised an increasing amount of concern with the public. Advertising companies also utilize this type of marketing, though it is far less known amongst the public. Social media has created a new way for these companies to gain access to deeply…

biggest economic policy accomplishment the government has made under president Obama is the establishment of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. The agency was founded in 2011, and has helped millions of Americans recover money from the banks that victimized them. Right now the organization is under threat of being closed down by Republicans. If the CFPB is closed down consumer stand to lose possibly their biggest Ally in the financial world. If this does happen it will not be without…

Bed Bath & Beyond, Inc. has a policy of ethics that is used for all interaction and transactions of business with others internally and/or external of the Company. Whether it is employee to employee, employee to consumer, business to business or business to vendor, the Company’s ethical standards are expected to be abided by when acting on behalf of the Company. Any employee, including all associates, officers and board members, who violates the policy is liable to be subjected to disciplinary…

The United States of America has a number of laws that are proposed to further balanced, fair, and focused business practices. The laws are successfully used as control measures to guarantee that free and reasonable business practices are taken after. The major objective of the antitrust laws or the competitive laws is to guarantee that buyers pay the most reduced conceivable cost in addition to with best quality or nature of products they are utilizing. Today, competitor laws empower everybody…

Question 7 – Across more than one Learning Outcome (30 marks)- 1500 (a) identify, with justification, one significant employers’ liability risk facing the sports centre. (3)-150 Employee Slips & Trips in Restaurant - As the risk manager I would consider the risk of slips and trips of employees working within the premises, particularly the restaurant. Slips and trips are a big problem in catering areas, employees “working in kitchen and food service environments are more likely to be injured…

Brand Association Brand association is a major determining factor when it comes to consumer buying behavior. John et al. (2006) suggested that brand association defines the decision making pattern of the consumers. It has been deduced by Huang and Sarigöllü (2014) that brand association is developed among those consumers who have complete awareness about the brands. They deduced in their sudy that brand association cannot be devloped without brand awareness. Therefore it can be deduced that a…

My topic of a researched argument is that whether direct-to-consumers (DTC) advertising, as one of the most effective forms of mass communications, should be more regulated than it is now. This paper argues that policy makers need to make stronger regulations against many DTC advertisements in a pharmaceutical industry because they exploit consciousness, mislead consumers, and are obsessed with profits. My primary audience for this argument would be the people who are interested in how DTC…

Companies have the opportunity to promote their brand strategies to the general public. The general consumers can associate with certain brands that captivate them. I never cared about the way products were displayed because I was content with having any product. Eventually, I reached an age where I developed a critical thought process for my future purchases. There had to be products that had value, reliability, and honor in their history. Similarly, Optimum Nutrition has their signature line…

When creating products/services to meet the quality standards of the customer and also the industry standards and legislation, procurement is critical in identifying the specifications and restrictions to adhere to. Procurement often includes purchase planning, determining standards, supplier research, financing, inventory control, disposals and supply administration, which all leads to specification development, outputs and functions. This also ties into quality management which oversees these…

built on trust and mutual respect. When marketers knowingly mislead consumers, it destroys the trust of consumers. Maintaining a trusting relationship with consumers is important and being transparent and honest about their marketing process is a way to help consumers make informed…