Week of September 9, 2019 (see last week)
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A Consumer World investigation reveals that shady companies have hijacked the look and feel of major news media websites to hawk their products with fake news stories. Sites for the TODAY Show, CNN, CNBC, Fox News, People, and others have all been cloned to make readers think they are reading legitimate stories on those genuine sites. This is a brazen new move to lend legitimacy to the pills and potions they pitch. See also our in-depth story below in Mouse Print* about how the TODAY Show website was used to pitch diet pills in a dubious way.
J.D. Power questioned over 12,000 pharmacy customers about their experiences in filling prescriptions. The results are in various categories, like brick and mortar drugstore chains, pharmacies in larger retail stores, mail order pharmacies, etc. For drugstore chains, for example, Good Neighbor Pharmacy ranked highest. For mail order firms, Humana Pharmacy topped the list. See how the others ranked.
In many instances, Amazon makes you think you're saving a lot of money by comparing its current price to a list price that virtually no one charges. However, there are some bona fide deal sections if you know where to look.
It looked like the TODAY Show was doing an interesting weight loss story on their website. But it soon turned into a commercial pitch for diet pills. Why in the world would TODAY get involved with stuff like this? The answer is, they didn't.
That is our Mouse Print* story this week.
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