The proposed Consumer Protection Bill needed to be specific about the information that a franchisor had to disclose to ensure that franchisees were not abused, Tanya Woker, a professor of law at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, said this week.
Musica has been convicted of negligence for failing to verify the authenticity of accessories it sold for Sony PlayStation.
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Retail companies in Zimbabwe with links to South Africa are maintaining a business-as-usual approach as the political and economic crisis in that country deepens, but the strategy of survival appears to be to source products – including food items – locally.
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CNBC: If there’s one indisputable truth about retailing on the Internet, it’s that the established retail cliques have consistently underestimated how it would grow. That’s allowed the new wave of entrepreneurs, led by Jeff Bezos of Amazon and Pierre Omidyar of Ebay, to break into mature markets where they theoretically had no right to become established, and build that foothold into positions where much longer-established retail rivals operate in fear of them.
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International Herald Tribune: Shoppers are more footloose than ever before with the retailers they use, seeking out bargains in the economic downturn and enjoying greater choice, partly due to the Internet, a study has shown. Despite the rise in store loyalty cards aimed at retaining shoppers, 22.1 percent of consumers say they are dissatisfied with the retailer where they do most of their shopping, up 2.2 percentage points on the year.
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14 Jul 2008
