Consumer Hacks

This week we’ve had the video of the rat happily munching on a salad at ...

Thanks to social media, consumer discontent confronts us everywhere - Fa...

The lure of free goodies has been used by marketers for generations to l...

On the last episode of Consumerwatch, we gave the latest update on the B...

It’s the biggest retail day of the year and it gets bigger every year - ...

Following the recent salmonella cases in KwaZulu-Natal, Wendy Knowler gi...

How outraged should we be about how four top selling South African cars ...

Anyone who flies regularly has experienced the frustration of flight del...

For us consumers, buying something on lay-by is a huge win. And because ...

No company likes to let a customer go, and in the past, many have come u...

South Africa’s recent listeriosis outbreak may have come to an end follo...

Orange bags: Best you buy your own. "For now, it's the only way to keep ...

Social media gives we consumers a powerful voice; a means to expose how ...

Far from it - and I speak from experience. Four years ago, I’d been with...

It may be a smallish sample - Discovery Vitality members - but the way t...

Wendy Knowler has the low-down on food product dates - and why you shou...

The Rice Krispies fans are cross - very cross! Without warning, Kellogg’...

Read labels, the experts say - that’s the only way to make informed buyi...

Ecommerce is exploding in South Africa and many people, having had good ...

Unappetising foreign objects in food: how they get there and what your r...