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Sears sales scrutiny

Some Sears offered sleuths peeled behind a cost plaque during Sears murder sales and found cheaper prices stealing underneath. And an workman came brazen to contend he was told to symbol adult some prices after a sales began. So the Competition Bureau wants to know what’s going on, and is seeking a liquidators in assign of a sales for answers.

The Competition Bureau is looking into purported cost mark-ups during Sears Canada murder sales, says a new report. (Nathan Denette/Canadian Press)

Kid-friendly filter fail

Those kid-friendly filters might not always work. One Vancouver lady with dual kids was dumbfounded to learn this. Her Netflix comment was set to “Older Kids and Below.” But when her nine-year-old son started typing a hunt for Power Rangers, Netflix suggested a cinema After Porn Ends and Revenge Porn. She was not impressed. (Netflix has given bound that error.)

When Cadi Jordan’s kids were acid Netflix for Power Rangers episodes, a formula enclosed offerings such as After Porn Ends. (Cadi Jordan)

Uber’s confidence breach

Uber was strike by hackers. But they can’t endorse how many Canadians were affected. The crack includes personal sum on 57 million Uber users worldwide, including names, email addresses and phone numbers. Uber pronounced it paid hackers $100,000 final year to destroy a data and motionless not to news a breach. Canada’s remoteness commissioner is looking into it.

Uber is entrance purify about a coverup of a year-old information breach, though CEO Dara Khosrowshahi says there’s no justification a stolen information has been misused. (Eric Risberg/Associated Press)

Customer disservice?

A Bell Canada workman says she was compulsory to use high-pressure sales strategy on each call. She says she had to sell services to people who called in with billing or use complaints in sequence to strike sales targets, even when she knew that they couldn’t even use what she was selling. Bell says this is “completely ungrounded and untrue.”

Bell call centre workman Andrea Rizzo says she had to take a highlight leave since of a consistent vigour to accommodate sales targets or face probable termination. (Tina Mackenzie/CBC)

The Instant Pot’s Black Friday hype

Instant Pot insanity is holding over. The Canadian-developed electric vigour cooker has a cult-like following: A entertain of a million people bought a pots on Amazon’s Prime Day; Black Friday was approaching to double that number. Who knew that everybody would be clamouring for vigour cookers?

Do we know someone who lined adult to get an Instant Pot? (CBC)

We need your help

Are we cleaning out your closet and donating your things to charity? If we devise to move them to a tradesman with concession bins, we wish to hear from you. Email Tyana.Grundig@cbc.ca.

What else is going on?

Cigarettes might get some-more expensive. Cigarette taxes are now about 68 per cent of a sell price. A news for Health Canada recommends boosting them to 80 per cent.

Zara workman woes. Unpaid Zara mantle workers, who sewed pleas for assistance into clothes, say they still haven’t seen a cent.

This week in recalls:

PlanToys Baby Gyms could be a strangulation hazard. And Ikea is reminding people about its remember of 29 million Malm dressers after an eighth child died.

Exposing cost discrimination

Your personal information — like your hunt history, amicable media profiles and what device we use — can give companies clues about what they can assign we online. In a test, we exhibit how websites offer business opposite prices for a same product depending on your digital footprint.

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