TWITTER Week of May 17, 2021 (see last week)
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Old Navy is just one of many retailers charged with putting fake or inflated "regular" or list price tags on goods to help them make exaggerated savings claims. They recently settled a class action lawsuit on this very subject.
That is our Mouse Print* story this week.
Consumer prices jumped over 4-percent since last April, the highest amount in 12 years. If sales at your local store or supermarket don't seem as sharp as they used to be, it's not your imagination. At Christmas Tree Shops (not a holiday store) some items that were $3.99 were restickered $4.99. Baskets of items usually $1 are now $1.29. Stop & Shop is advertising English muffins this week 2 for $3, when the usual sale price is 99 cents. (Remember when these were three or four for a dollar?) Aldi raised the price of their saltines to 99 cents from 79 cents (and many other things are no longer bargains there). What price increases have you noticed in stores? Add your observations here (or read others').
Rental car rates have gone crazy because many of the big firms sold off 30-40% of their inventory during the pandemic. Now with people itching to travel again, some of your neighbors are getting into the car rental business and charging much lower prices. How do they do it? They use services like Turo and Avail, which act much like AirBnB does to help people rent out extra rooms in their homes.
The pandemic has a silver lining -- various federal giveaway programs. One such program is from the FCC offering up to $50 a month off your broadband Internet bill for low income people, and surprisingly, for higher income people who suffered a job loss since February 2020. There is also up to a $100 reimbursement toward a new computer.
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