Sentences with phrase «consumer confusion about»

The current concerns are focused on consumer confusion about the differences between MLS and mls.ca, and the long - term impact this confusion could have on the MLS brand.

In what appeared to be acknowledgement of consumer confusion about credit card terms, Chase Card Services also announced it would implement new «clearer pricing practices.»

«But we changed the name around a year ago to be more descriptive and to eliminate consumer confusion about what the product does,» he says.

(WASHINGTON, D.C.) In a new industry - wide effort to reduce consumer confusion about product date labels, grocery manufacturers and retailers have joined together to adopt standard wording on packaging about the quality and safety of products.

«This disparity,» USDA wrote in the proposal, «causes consumer confusion about the meaning of the USDA organic label, threatens to erode consumer confidence in the organic label more broadly and perpetuates unfair competition among producers.»

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Since I've written about the first issue, well - known status and evidentiary challenges, several times before, let's just look at this issue of consumer confusion.

Only about 11 percent of eligible borrowers filled out complaints, a low response rate both consumer advocates and the Government Accountability Office attributed to borrower confusion and poor outreach by regulators and the banks.

«It led to confusion about brand and consumer expectations.»

The American Beverage Association and its members support the FTC's review of the Green Guides and believe that any changes must provide clear guidance to companies about making accurate environmental claims, while also preventing confusion for consumers.

Stasz cited statistics showing that confusion around product date labeling accounts for only about eight percent of total food waste sent to landfills by consumers.

Confusion about the meaning of expiration date labels — from «use by» and «sell by» to «best before» or «display until» — causes consumers to discard food that is still safe to eat.

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In the letter, attorney Douglas A.Hass wrote «Lifeway is deeply concerned about Dahlicious's misleading representation of its products as kefir and the confusion this use engenders in consumers who seek the significant benefits from actual kefir.»

«The purpose is to respond to consumer interest in what's in their milk and also clear up some confusion that has occurred amongst consumers about understanding what proteins are in their every day, regular priced milk,» Mr Swan said

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The goal of this act was to help consumers make better food choices while reducing confusion about labels.

Equifax hasn't helped matters, with confusion abounding about whether its breach - checker is accurate or whether consumers give up their rights to a class action suit by using it.

The Truth in Lending Act was passed in 1968 to help clear up confusion in the credit and lending markets that left most consumers dazed about exactly what they were signing up for.

With confusion swirling about the availability and terms of promised PSLF for millions of student loan borrowers, American Student Assistance's Center for Consumer Advocacy has launched a national awareness campaign, 10 Years To Zero Debt, to educate borrowers about PSLF and boost enrollment in the program.

The marketing of functional foods is not just annoying because it takes advantage of consumer confusion and fear around nutrition, it's also dangerous because it assumes we don't have our own holistic understanding of food and, in the end, dis - empowers us to make our own decisions about what to eat...»

This is how OFGEM think they're going to straighten out consumer confusion — by redefining green tariffs as being about anything but investment in new sources of green electricity.

Trademark infringement is about consumer confusion.

The Target brand was unique and distinctive in the retail industry, and there was a high level of Canadian awareness about the brand, and there would be little consumer confusion

Since the target of the federal trademark act is consumer confusion over the source of goods or services sold in commerce, those of us who write about citation norms and style guides need not place an «®» next to «The Bluebook» or otherwise acknowledge the book title's trademark status whenever we write about it and its contents, any more than an auto reviewer need do so when describing the 2014 Nissan Altima.

In addition, the complicated nature of insurance drives consumers crazy — leading to feelings of confusion, anxiety about what to buy and how much to spend.

Even with the improvements made last year in Windows 8.1, consumers continue to show confusion about Microsoft's latest Windows platform, which has two different user interfaces, one of which is best used with a price - raising touchscreen.

In 2015, for example, the TPSAC expressed concerns about consumer confusion in an application to market «snus» (a smokeless tobacco product placed between the lip and gum) as a safer alternative to cigarettes.

«We've heard countless stories from ALTA members about consumer confusion at the closing table and this survey confirms our concern from the consumer's point of view,» says Michelle Korsmo, ALTA's chief executive officer.

I don't understand what the big confusion is all about as to liability when a consumer simply pays a broker a fee in order to expose their property for sale for the purpose of selling such property on their own.

The advent of various forms of agency representation as well as non-agency transactions has caused some confusion among consumers about the role and value of real estate practitioners.

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) has expressed concern in the past over consumers» apparent confusion about the reverse mortgage market, and it has published a fact sheet about reverse mortgage risk.

With the rule and these new forms, the Loan Estimate and the Closing Disclosure, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau was trying to consolidate overlapping disclosures, reduce confusion about loan terms and details for borrowers, and make it easier for consumers to shop and compare loan options.