{"id":31135,"date":"2012-11-05T11:13:16","date_gmt":"2012-11-05T18:13:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/11\/05\/the-cost-of-doing-bad-business.html"},"modified":"2012-11-06T09:33:16","modified_gmt":"2012-11-06T16:33:16","slug":"the-cost-of-doing-bad-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/11\/05\/the-cost-of-doing-bad-business.html","title":{"rendered":"The cost of doing (bad) business"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Court orders that require the consumer to be aware of them and ask for redress are doomed to be poorly implemented. \u00a0Our local safeway is my store of choice, and I don&#39;t depend on advertised specials as a reason to go there or buy particular items &#8230; but I&#39;ll be looking next time for these signs.<\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'>\n<p style='margin-bottom:5px;'><strong>Embedded Link<\/strong><\/p>\n<div style='height:120px;width:120px;overflow:hidden;float:left;margin-top:0px;padding-top:0px;margin-right:10px;vertical-align:top;text-align:center;clear:both;'>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img style='max-width:none;' src='https:\/\/images1-focus-opensocial.googleusercontent.com\/gadgets\/proxy?url=http:\/\/consumermediallc.files.wordpress.com\/2012\/11\/safeway-receipt.jpg?w%3D610&#038;container=focus&#038;gadget=a&#038;rewriteMime=image\/*&#038;refresh=31536000&#038;resize_h=150&#038;resize_w=150&#038;no_expand=1' border='0' \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/consumerist.com\/2012\/11\/02\/report-safeway-overcharging-even-after-court-order\/'>Report: Safeway Overcharging Even After Court Order \u2013 The Consumerist<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tSupermarket chain Safeway and its Vons stores have been sued twice in the last decade by the state of California for overcharging customers. Yet, in spite of a court order that penalizes the stores ea&#8230;\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'> <strong>Google+:<\/strong> <a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930\/posts\/2822fRDpKZc' target='_new'>View post on Google+<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Court orders that require the consumer to be aware of them and ask for redress are doomed to be poorly implemented. \u00a0Our local safeway is my store of choice, and I don&#39;t depend on advertised specials as a reason to go there or buy particular items &#8230; but I&#39;ll be looking next time for these &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/11\/05\/the-cost-of-doing-bad-business.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The cost of doing (bad) business&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-big-business"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":50870,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/05\/11\/our-local-safeway-is-closing.html","url_meta":{"origin":31135,"position":0},"title":"Our local Safeway is closing","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 11-May-15 5:54am","format":false,"excerpt":"Well, that sucks. 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