![]() Also, the Free Market would make everything cheaper and all that jazz. However with the explosive growth in Libertarianism, and 'Customer Beware' of the later Whigs and modern Liberals, the Royalist Edicts were denounced and repudiated as Royal tyranny and the Assize was repealed in 1815 by the House of Commons. ![]() ' Offenders might find themselves pilloried, imprisoned, dragged on hurdles through the streets, and if still recalcitrant, finally banished from the town' Bread and as well, Ale - which is related - came under the King's Laws from 1266 onwards, recognizable to the Assizes, with inspectors doing their thing ![]() One wonders what the officials three hundred years ago would have done with the same business practices. ![]() Oh, and the chap responsible for the discovery that you can cheat customers like this is awarded a knighthood for "services to industry". The regulators response is to remind the retailers that when more than 10% of the product is injected water they have to tell the customer on the packaging or face getting a reminder letter. One is injected with industrial chemicals and water and is much heavier, but most of it evaporates as soon as you cook it. The bakers therefore switched to producing a bakers dozen (ie 13) items instead of 12, with the extra for goodwill and the promise that if one was defective then you've got a replacement, and if more then obviously it was a genuine error and talk to me please instead of the law.Ĭonsumer rights ~2000. In grumpy old git mode, the consumer rights a couple of hundred years ago were that if a baker shortchanged you deliberately and you made a complaint that was proved, the legal remedy were huge fines or flogging which the offender would feel for the next few months, and the scars would be with him for life. If the regulators were serious about anything, they'd take action against people screwing their customers. Re: No problem with Android and Google Drive, and iOS and iCloud?
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