More Than the Roses Grow; With Valentine's Day Comes 42% Price Increase,...
A rose is a rose, but at Valentine's Day it is certain to be one very expensive rose. The New York City Department of Consumer Affairs announced the results of a study yesterday showing that florists...
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To the Editor: Re ''Auto Insurance Is Now Cheaper in Many States'' (Business Day, April 15): The small rate decreases of 3 percent to 20 percent requested by insurance companies are far less than is...
View ArticleMetro Business; Circuit City to Mail Return-Fee Refunds
Circuit City, the country's largest consumer electronics chain, will mail refund checks to more than 300 customers who paid a 15 percent restocking fee but were not given adequate warning of the fee,...
View ArticleBoy Finds His Laser Tip Projects Swastika Image
In an incident that New York City's Department of Consumer Affairs said underscored the need to outlaw the sale of all laser pointers to minors, a 12-year-old Jewish boy bought a pointer at a kiosk in...
View ArticleFuneral Directors Challenge City Rule to Provide Price Lists
Robert Ruggiero likes to compare his immaculate three-story funeral home on Morris Park Avenue in the Bronx to a fancy hotel where no effort is spared to fulfill a customer's wishes. Call F. Ruggiero...
View ArticleChinese Immigrants Lose Savings and Hopes in a Citizenship Swindle
It was a familiar swindle, but it worked, as it often does, like a charm: A fly-by-night operation promises to smooth the way to citizenship -- for a fee. Then the schemers pull up stakes, and the...
View Article2 Hired to Calm Fears for Web Privacy
DoubleClick, the Internet's largest advertisement placement company, has hired two of New York's most prominent consumer advocates in an effort to reassure the public, investors and federal and state...
View ArticleDeputy to Be Promoted To Consumer Post
Jane S. Hoffman, the deputy commissioner of the City Consumer Affairs Department, will be named today to take over for her boss, Jules Polonetsky, who is joining an Internet company in the city, a city...
View ArticleFirst Line of Defense; Chief Privacy Officers Forge Evolving Corporate Roles
Jules Polonetsky has the power of life and death. Over contracts, anyway. As the chief privacy officer of DoubleClick, the biggest Internet advertising company, Mr. Polonetsky has the authority to rip...
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The Rules of In-Store Surveillance
Several companies involved in offline tracking have said that they would work with a research group based in Washington to develop a series of “best practices” for privacy controls....
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