Marketing Matters May/Jun 2015 ISSUE 44

SHORTEN YOUR LIFE. HAVE AN AFFAIR Canadian adultery website Ashley Madison, credited with helping to break up thousands of marriages, is having problems with its …

MORE ADVANCE FEE FRAUD An elderly widow spent her life savings and a trust fund of £100,000 sending increasing amounts of “administration fees” to fraudsters who told …

HOW YOU SHOULD LIVE, FROM D&G Clothing brand Dolce and Gabbana are facing calls for Macy’s and Debenhams to stop stocking their products. (Ethical Consumer) …

SERIOUSLY? Clothes for overweight and underweight people should be banned from most stores, to make people feel uncomfortable about their size when they can’t find …

NOT COOL TO EAT IT The marketing manager of the Royal China restaurant group has been pilloried in the press for illegally importing shark’s fin to make soup, not on the …

CLIPPED AT ASDA A recent trip to our local ASDA found their bar-coding and till-reading working in their favour. Expensive convenience packs of washed and bagged salad …

DOCTORS – WHAT DO THEY KNOW? Interesting to read in Association News that the British Medical Journal (BMJ) the official organ of the British Medical Association …

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