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How Wish Built (and Fumbled) a Dollar Store for the Internet
Consumers have complained to the Better Business Bureau about Wish products that never arrived or were unrecognizable when they did. France, which was one of Wish’s largest markets, ordered search engines and mobile app stores last fall to remove the company from their online listings, citing the presence of dangerous appliances and other products. Merchants […]
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Baby Formula Shortage Has an Aggravating Factor: Few Producers
In the early 1990s, the nation’s biggest makers of baby formula were under fire. The three largest manufacturers, which controlled 90 percent of the U.S. market at the time, were hit with waves of state, federal and corporate lawsuits, accusing them of attempting to limit competition and using their control of the industry to fix […]
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Absent or Swinging Prices Keep Consumers Guessing
When a holiday toy catalog from Amazon arrived in the mail in late October, Krista Hoffmann noticed something amiss. In 100 pages of Lego sets, princess castles, action figures and the impossible-to-find Sony PlayStation 5, the catalog presented just about everything — except the prices. “At first, I thought I wasn’t looking close enough, so […]
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