The 411
Sale Today, Gone Tomorrow
Economics
Rights and Responsibilities
Protection
100
Between a review from Consumer Reports and a company's advertisement, the most reliable source of information about how well a product works.
What are Consumer Reports?
100
An ad that compares one product against a competitor's product.
What is a comparative ad?
100
The economy of the United States.
What is a mixed economy?
100
If you throw garbage out of your car window, you are not living up to this responsibility.
What is the responsibility to contribute to a healthy environment?
100
The last step in the complaint process which you should only take if absolutely necessary.
What is call your lawyer?
200
The number of calories you would consume if you drank an entire bottle of Mountain Dew that had two servings and 200 calories per serving.
What is 400?
200
An ad appeals to consumer emotions.
What is a persuasive ad?
200
An unplanned decision to buy a product or service.
What is an impulse purchase?
200
Warning labels on products serve to protect this right.
What is the right to safety?
200
The agency responsible for monitoring air and water quality.
What is the Environmental Protection Agency?
300
The number of servings that are in a package of Oreos if the serving size is 2 cookies and there are 30 cookies in the package.
What is 15?
300
The difference between deception and fraud.
What is legality. Deception is legal and fraud is not.
300
The cost of the next best alternative (or what you gave up by making a decision).
What is opportunity cost?
300
Yelp reviews are a place people can exercise this right.
What is the right to be heard?
300
This agency gives grades to businesses based on a certain set of standards.
What is the Better Business Bureau?
400
A magazine that publishes reviews about consumer products and services.
What are Consumer Reports?
400
Pressuring a consumer to buy a more expensive item than he/she originally intended.
What is trading up?
400
The effect on the price of an item as it becomes less popular.
What is a price decline?
400
Telling your waitress that she got your order wrong is an example of you fulfilling this responsibility.
What is the responsibility to seek redress?
400
Monopolies are monitored by this agency.
What is the Federal Trade Commission?
500
The percentages on a nutrition label represent this.
What is percent daily value?
500
Marking the price of an item up right before a sale to then reduce the price back to the original cost.
What is sale price?
500
Carefully planning out your purchase decisions.
What is rational buying?
500
Nutrition labels on food items satisfy this right.
What is the right to be informed?
500
This agency issues recalls when products do not operate safely.
What is the Consumer Product Safety Commission?
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