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Banana Republic Says The Sale Items I Ordered Are No Longer Available, But Really They Are
Spotting a 40% off sale is a gleeful event — better than a measly 30% and
almost at that sweet half-off price. So when Andrew stumbled upon just such a sale online at Banana Republic's site yesterday, he acted quickly to nab some of his favorite items. Speed didn't matter, in this case.
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Study: JCPenney, Avon, Gap Websites Are Worst At Responding To Customer E-Mails
After years of being trained to dread contacting a company via phone, lest we get trapped in the automated phone tree, customers are turning to e-mail for resolving their customer service issues. And while a new study shows that a majority of the top online retailers did a passable job of replying to customer inquiries, a handful of websites apparently decided to give their e-mail customer service teams some extra time off this holiday season.
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Banana Republic Clerk Misled Me Into Opening Another Credit Card
When Jessica went shopping at Banana Republic last month, she forgot her store credit card. That was OK, the sales clerk assured her: she just needed Jessica's Social Security number and for her to sign off on the transaction in order to access her existing card data in the system. Most people are so used to having our forgotten store loyalty cards looked up using our phone numbers that this seems natural enough. Only it wasn't - by providing her SSN and signature, Jessica was actually applying for a Banana Republic Visa card.
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One In Three Gap Stores In U.S. Will Be Closed By End Of 2013
Earlier today, the folks at once-mammoth clothing retailer Gap Inc. announced plans to shutter even more of its namesake Gap stores in the U.S. over the next 14.5 months, bringing the total number of stores to only 700 by the end of 2013.
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Vote Here For The Worst Ad In America Awards!
You told us which TV ads annoy you the most, now it's time to select the worst of the worst!
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Announcing The 2011 Worst Ad In America Nominees!
For the second year in a row,
we asked you to tell us which TV commercials get on your last nerve, and you didn't hold back. After sifting through hundreds of comments and e-mails, we've finally whittled down all those annoying ads to the elite few worthy of recognition in the Second Annual Consumerist Worst Ad In America Awards.
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The 8 Largest U.S. Retailers With The Worst Sales
If we'd told you 10 years ago that Borders and Circuit City would vanish off the face of the planet and Blockbuster Video would be auctioned off to a satellite TV provider for pocket change, many people would have expressed disbelief. But those once-great stores have had their heyday in history, so now it's time to look into the magic 8 ball to see if doom lies ahead for other major retailers.
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Negotiate Your Own Sale At The Gap
Have you ever shopped for clothes online and said to yourself, "Man, I wish this could be more like Priceline, where I could name my own price, but the selection is limited and the deals not all that great?" The Gap is here to help you achieve that dream, with their new "Gap My Price" site. It's as if Gap and Priceline got together and spawned a largely useless but mildly entertaining deal site that generates coupons you can't use online.
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Are We Just Outsourcing Our Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Tragedies?
When
we noted the 100th anniversary of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire on March 25, you might have looked at that and thought, phew, good thing stuff like that isn't happening anymore. But in developing countries around the world with little to no worker rights and sweatshops paying pennies a day, it is. Like in Bangladesh in December 2010 when 29 workers died after a fire swept through the Hameem garment factory. The workers were trapped inside because guards had been ordered to lock the gates in the event of a fire in order to prevent clothes from being stolen during the confusion. The factory made clothes for GAP.
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Gap Wants You To Haggle Over Some Khaki Pants
In what we can only assume is a desperate attempt to make shopping for the world's most boring item fun, the Gap is running
a one-day-only promotion where you, the internet-savvy shopper, can haggle over khaki pants while potentially not even wearing any.
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