Interesting isn’t it? The picture above represents some of the most frequently used words by CHOICE on Twitter. We’ve been using Twitter for almost a year now and it can be a fabulous way of keeping up to date with what people are thinking and what the organisation is doing – latest tests, reports, campaigns [...]
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Comments(0) 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. [...]
Read More..>> Comments(0) 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 [...]
Read More..>>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 [...]
Read More..>>The government is set to make a decision on what it will do to protect children from the unhealthy influence of junk food marketing and we want to give Australians the opportunity to tell the Health Minister that they support a ban on junk food ads when children are watching TV.
Children are exposed to around [...]
That R word – recession – just won’t go away. It’s looking gloomy out there, with unemployment steadily increasing and many Australians facing redundancy. At the same time, household debts are higher than ever.
So CHOICE has prepared a survival guide for the global financial crisis. We regularly put financial services and providers under the microscope, [...]
Whew. If you want to attract spam, just write about money and pharmaceuticals! CHOICE Voice has been receiving hundreds of spam comments, mostly about buying cheap prescription drugs or loan offers (although the ubiquitous explicit content sites are right up there also). You’re not seeing them on the site because we have a filter behind [...]
Read More..>>The spotlight is again on bad products, with CHOICE holding its 2007 Shonky Awards in Sydney.
So what topped this year’s list? One of Australia’s leading banks, a popular spread aimed at children and a major appliance manufacturer. CHOICE gave out nine awards in all:
Teleconfusion: Mobile phone industry
Spoiling the fun: Play For Fun Flying Ring
Nasty [...]
More than 300 photos from the CI Congress are now available on Flickr. You can view the photos at www.flickr.com/groups/cicongress2007 and, if you have a Flickr account, you can download the photos, become a member of the CI World Congress 2007 group and invite others to join. You can also post your own photos to [...]
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