FRANKLY THINKING
The recent unprecedented rise in the cost of postage has hit businesses hard, but pensioners and other vulnerable groups even harder, courtesy of the industry….

BOOTS CON PENSIONERS
Marketeers at Boots have told millions of pensioners that the loyalty benefits on their Advantage cards have been “upgraded” when in fact they have been downgraded….

ADVANCE FEE FRAUDS STILL ACTIVE
Enough UK business types are still gullible enough to make the advance fee frauds worth chancing, it seems. An example is the letter recently received from….

CONSCIENCE BEFORE ACCOUNTANCY
Latest firm to be censured for legal tax avoidance is SABMiller, brewers of Grolsch and Peroni beers. According to Ethical Consumer magazine research from ActionAid….

LESS PRODUCT, SAME PRICE (OR MORE.)
Supermarkets are now selling smaller packs for the same price, or more, in the quest for profits, according to Which? the consumer’s association….

LATTE NOTICE
Wetherspoons fans who love the group’s quality Lavazza coffee at 69 pence a cup have recently been a bit let down over the sudden cancellation of the coffee collectors….

ANOTHER GOOD ONE FOR WATCHDOG
Another worthwhile target for acid Annie Robinson and her Watchdog team would be their employers, the BBC. For years now their TV Licensing division has employed….

BANKER’S DRAUGHTS
A chill wind continues to blow through the disgraced banking sector, the latest manifestation being the punishment of grubby Barclays, headed by very well paid….

RUPERT BARED
The media Murdochs must be as popular as bankers. This is going by the elation that has greeted a pub landlady winning the legal right to bypass Murdoch’s Sky high….

AVON LIE TO SELL
Claims by cosmetics firm Avon that they do not test their products on animals have been exposed as lies by animal welfare group Uncaged….

FUNDING THE BONUS PAYMENTS?
An ad from the Royal Bank of Scotland which claimed it would never close a branch if it was the last one in town has been banned by the Advertising Standards Authority….

LET THEM WAIT
Call centres beloved of some marketeers are being targeted by a new phone app that only puts its users through to the call dialled when someone at the other end….

BENT TWITS
The Advertising Standards Authority is probing a stunt by Mars to promote its Snickers bar on Twitter. Reportedly Mars paid Rio Ferdinand, Ian Botham, Katie Price and….

DO YOU KEN, KEN?
Another moral compass is needed, it seems, for former London mayor Ken Livingstone. Our Ken, who has described tax avoiders as “rich bastards” who “don’t get it”….

RUFF IDEA
News that Barkers, makers of dog food has screened a TV ad with a high frequency sound that only canines can hear has been met with some scepticism. After all….

SOFA KING INTELLECTUAL
Meanwhile an ad by furniture firm Sofa King which stated that its prices were “Sofa King Low” has been banned by the ASA for being offensive….

CHEAP LUNCH
Arguably proving that corporate hospitality works Private Eye and others have revealed that HM Revenue and Customs boss, Dave Hartnett, dined rather well with top types….

WRONG TRACK
News that train fares are to rise again this year, at more than the rate of inflation, has coincided with the revelation that fares in the UK are up to ten times more than those….

SIR DAVE AND THE BBC FAKE IT
Sad to note that trusted and respected presenter Sir David Attenborough has blotted his integrity copybook, again, as has the BBC….

EAT YOUR MEAT
The French government has decreed that all schoolchildren have to eat meat if they want to have a school lunch, and bringing a packed lunch as a vegetarian….

WHAT’S YOUR POISON?
Fake vodka containing anti-freeze ingredients that can cause blindness has been seized by trading standards officers in the run-up to Christmas….

TESCO PULL IT OFF
Tesco marketing tactics seem to be aimed at customers who really do believe everything they read….

MORE SUPERMARKET CONS
Other cons rely on customer misconceptions, according to a recent Panorama TV documentary, The Truth About Supermarkets….

FOODIE TREATS
News that Nigella Lawson declared her love for salted caramel by having it poured over her head and photographing the creepy result for the front cover of a magazine she….