#consumer-protection-law

#consumer-protection-law

Walmart's slogan may be "Save Money, Live Better," but as a series of social media posts have revealed, the corporation has been overcharging shoppers for meat via rampant mislabelling. Customers have discovered that the weights listed on some of Walmart's meat packages are incorrect, and these weight discrepancies could indicate fraudulent overpricing and deceptive tactics to get customers to pay more for less food.

"Plastic bag companies have continued to distribute plastic bags that are not recyclable in California and mislead Californians about their bags recyclability," Bonta said. "In fact, even when consumers have properly disposed of these plastic bags, they've overwhelmingly not been recycled in California and couldn't have been recycled. The thing is, producers knew, or should have known this fact years ago."

In his veto message, Newsom said the fee increase made little sense since a car buyer would be paying a dealership for only minutes of data entry. At a time when Californians are already struggling with the high cost of living, Newsom wrote, this bill would raise the document processing fee to three times the current $85 cap far beyond what an inflation adjustment would justify.

Amazon has reached a historic $2.5bn settlement with the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), which said the online retail giant tricked customers into signing up for its Prime memberships and made it difficult for them to cancel after doing so. The Seattle company will pay $1bn in civil penalties the largest such fine in the agency's history for a rule violation and $1.5bn will be paid back to consumers who were unintentionally enrolled in Prime, or were deterred from cancelling their subscriptions, the agency said on Thursday.

put at risk our ability to claim gift aid on memberships, but it creates onerous new burdens