fit for their general purpose. Therefore you are able to take the jeans and shoes back either for a full refund or a replacement. Regarding the Dior perfume which your mother has come out in a rash after using it. According to the Consumer Protection Act 1987 and the law of negligence, there must be: * A duty of care * A breach of the duty of care * This breach must be the direct cause of damage (physical, financial or emotional injury) to another and could also be foreseen
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Week 9 – Individual Work Laura Den Bleyker Everest University Managerial Ethics Dr. Heaney September 16, 2014 INTRODUCTION This weeks assignment will center on the two major product and service issues are quality and safety. We will also be covering three ethical theories apply to the issue of quality: contractual theory, due care theory, and the social
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In this paper we will discuss the potential legal, ethical, and information security related to the Frequent Shopper Program Kudler Foods has developed. Kudler Foods was founded by Kathy Kudler on June 18, 1998. A couple of years later she opened up two more stores in 2000 and 2003 all located in San Diego, California metropolitan area. There are three locations La Jolla, Del Mar, and Encinitas that specialize in the finest of selected foodstuffs, wines, fresh produce, cheese, condiments, bakery
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Environmental protection is a practice of protecting the natural environment on individual, organizational or governmental levels, for the benefit of both the natural environment and humans. Due to the pressures of population and technology, the biophysical environment is being degraded, sometimes permanently. This has been recognized, and governments have begun placing restraints on activities that cause environmental degradation. Since the 1960s, activity of environmental movements has created
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The article Extending the extended self in a digital world by Sheth and Solomon is an analysis of Russell Belk’s seminal paper on the extended self, particularly focusing on how the virtual world has affected the self of the consumers. The authors did not conduct any experiments or studies themselves, thus most of the paper is based of external research that adheres to the main subject. The authors found that three boundaries that used to exist in Belk’s paper have fused over the years with the
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the 1960s and 1970s in part because the political climate was ripe with a supportive public and leaders who were willing to act. By the 1980s, the political climate in the United States (U.S.) changed and while public support for environmental protection remained high, it was countered by an increasing concern for the economic burdens of an environmental policy. Since the 1980s, numerous efforts have been made at the federal level to roll back environmental laws. The rollbacks that directly
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Running head: QR CODES: WE CAN BUT SHOULD WE 1 We Can but Should We? QR Code Usage Kaesha D. Lynch Chamberlain College of Nursing QR CODES: WE CAN BUT SHOULD WE 2 We Can but Should We? QR Code Usage What are QR codes? How are they used? The appearance of cube-like encrypted codes, known as QR(Quick Response)codes are conveniently placed in advertisements on trains, buses, newspapers, magazines, business cards, and flyers to quickly upload information via smartphones, laptops
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Fire safety refers to precautions that are taken to prevent or reduce the likelihood of a fire that may result in death, injury, or property damage, alert those in a structure to the presence of an uncontrolled fire in the event one occurs, better enable those threatened by fire to survive in and evacuate from affected areas, or to reduce the damage caused by a fire. Fire safety measures include those that are planned during the construction of a building or implemented in structures that are already
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ECT 250 Case Study Review #1 1. An internet trend that has been popular this past year is the website called “The Hunt”. The Hunt is where people can post a picture of an item, normally an article of clothing, and people can respond what brand it is or where to buy it. From there, it allows consumers further search to find the cheapest pricing for the item. This is seen as a positive effect for the consumers, because it allows the consumers to find their desired item, when they had no direction
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are that most people do not use “do not track” features. 40 % would give up personal information in exchange for free products. More than half of people do not read privacy policies online before making a purchase but most people expect consumer protection groups to monitor how brands use their personal data We talked about the benefit of Big Data for consumers so we thought to include some downside as well. For instance Big Data knows you are broke. Data brokers sell list of people with financial
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