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Retailers:
Businesses forced customers to go online, now they want you to use their apps where a login is automatic as soon as you start using their apps. Businesses and most apps already get automatic permission to access every thing on your phone, your photos, cameras, pics & vids, documents, speakers.
Businesses dehumanizing and turning to automated systems to avoid human's and liabilities there upon. Many areas have no agent available
Misleading price tagging
Price drop from suppliers is translated into "Sale" or "Rollback" not just a simple price drop
Unusual price hike to adjust losses, theft, damage etc.
Discriminative pricing offered through coupons, apps & websites thereby seniors and other who are not too smart on them are deprived of that price cut.
Trickry/cunning price labels and their display.
Emails, SMS are sent with no option for reply using same course
Price display is misleading (fine prints have a different story as against common perception
Food items have "best by date" not a real expiry date
Manufacturer:
Designs that affect negatively for und user in terms of durability, optimum
usability.
Product value is noticeabily less than packaging cost.
Product value being nominal, unwanted items are included on side to raise the
price.
Services:
Business forcing you to let them have a direct access to your funds, for a small incentive
Businesses and or their branches / franchise do not physically exist in your area.
Businesses emailing or messaging you one way with "do not reply" address.
Repeated BOT calling, mails and emails with you never sharing your contacts with them.
Businesses exporting cheap jobs like $15-$20/ hr to overseas, yet that saving is not conveyed to end user as a price cut.
Business inquiries forcing consumers to talk to machines and have no "O" option so one can talk to a human. Calls are diverted to any country where law & order situation, corruption is common. This jeopardizes the citizens privacy which gets severely compromised.
Businesses are pushing "Auto Pay" option to grab whatever, whenever money they deem is rightful.
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