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July 2019

Bribery, hacking and gaming the system: the tactics used to post fake reviews online

5 July 2019

Unscrupulous sellers are staying one step ahead of Amazon by using a range of tactics to beat the online retailer’s security systems and mislead shoppers with fake reviews, a Which? investigation has revealed. The consumer champion scrutinised thousands of listings with the help of an Amazon expert to uncover how features designed to make the […]

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June 2019

Not so super market – Around half of food packaging not widely recyclable

22 June 2019

Almost half of packaging used by major UK supermarket chains cannot be easily recycled, a Which? investigation has found. The consumer champion analysed the packaging of a typical household shop of 46 of the most popular items from Aldi, Asda, Co-op, Iceland, Lidl, M&S, Morrisons, Ocado, Sainsbury’s, Tesco and Waitrose. Researchers broke down each item’s […]

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April 2019

Popular retailers misleading consumers with kitchen and bathroom sales

18 April 2019

Leading kitchen and bathroom retailers are using potentially misleading discount claims to lure homeowners into rushing to spend thousands of pounds, a Which? investigation has found. The consumer champion analysed promotional offers for popular kitchen and bathroom retailers for a year between March 2018 and March 2019 – and found firms were using techniques including […]

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June 2016

Big Six energy prices out of touch

10 June 2016

With the final report of the Competition and Market Authority’s (CMA) energy market investigation due this month, Which? is calling on the regulator to set out how it will judge whether the inquiry’s proposals have successfully improved the market for consumers. New Which? research today reveals that the gap between average Big Six standard tariffs […]

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