Archive for May, 2009

Clothing sizes

Pssst! Want to drop several dress sizes in less than an hour? Forget about dieting or exercise and simply go shopping for clothes. To test out just how much difference there can be between clothing sizes, I headed to Sydney’s Pitt Street Mall for a shopping expedition. My mission? To buy a straight black skirt. [...]

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Takeaway food

It’s late, you’ve had a hard day at work and you want some tasty food fast - no wonder takeaway meals are so popular. On average, Australians spend 10% of their food budget on takeaways.
So CHOICE took a look at the nutritional composition of a range of popular takeaway meals:

Chinese
Thai
Italian

The same meal cooked by different restaurants [...]

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Gym contracts

It seems the gym industry is efficient at signing up new members, but far less vigilant in explaining the price, contract and cancellation terms. We sent two ’shadow shoppers’ out separately to visit nine Sydney gyms. The findings: beware high pressure sales tactics and creative pricing. And don’t expect too much by way of information [...]

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