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‘I Range From About $1,000 to $2,000 a Week': Mom Is Cleaning Up With This Side Hustle
With inflation still causing prices to climb, we’re all looking for ways to save money, or even make some, too. There are some interesting side hustles to make some extra cash from your home. In fact, NBC Washington found one local woman who is cleaning up and cashing in by doing a little dirty work. Washing clothes might be...
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Paying the Same But Getting Less? It's Called Shrinkflation
Companies are using a tactic called ‘shrinkflation’ to maximize profits by keeping prices steady while the amount of product shrinks.
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‘Shrinkflation' Means You Pay More for Less
Instead of raising prices on products, companies are resorting to ‘shrinkflation’ to maximize profits.
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NBC 5 Responds Helps Get Refund for Popular Workout Equipment
Being able to enjoy running indoors during the pandemic is awesome but was not so awesome for a North Texas woman who ran into some issues with a new treadmill.
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NBC 5 Responds Helps Stranded Consumer Get Hotel Refund
A Nebraska man was nearly left stranded without a place when a hotel was forced to close due to damages from February’s winter storm, but when he couldn’t get a refund from the hotel he booked, he called NBC 5 Responds for help.
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NBC 5 Responds Helps Stranded Consumer Get Hotel Refund
NBC 5 responds to an out-of-town viewer who was nearly left stranded due to a hotel closed because of damages from February’s winter storm.
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How to Complain Online and Get Results
Almost every company big and small is on social media but there’s a right way and a wrong way to go about lodging a complaint online.
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NBC 5 Responds Helps Viewer Get Refund After Waiting More Than a Year
A North Texas woman spent more than a year trying to get her microwave fixed and when she hit a dead-end she turned to NBC 5 Responds for help.
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NBC 5 Responds Helps Viewer Get Refund After Waiting More Than a Year
When you buy a new appliance but it breaks shortly after, you should be able to get it fixed or request a refund. But NBC 5 Responds found the pandemic has caused delays with parts making a fast fix impossible.
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Customer Finally Gets Refund for Trip Canceled in Early Days of Pandemic
Customers tell the NBC 5 Responds team they’re still having trouble getting promised refunds for trips canceled early in the pandemic. One woman found us after waiting months for a refund through a third-party travel app. NBC 5’s Diana Zoga shows us how she got her money back.
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Explained: How to File Taxes After 401(k) Withdrawal
The pandemic hit many families’ finances hard. So hard, more than a million families took money out of their 401(k) accounts. Consumer Investigator Chris Chmura explains how this changes the way you file taxes.
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Hyundai Recalls 471K More SUVs, Tells Owners to Park Outside
Hyundai is adding about 471,000 SUVs in the U.S. to a September recall for an electrical short in a computer that could cause fires
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Consumer Spending Is Already Rebounding in These States
The coronavirus pandemic has caused consumer spending, the economy’s key driver, to plummet across the country as Americans struggle through a recession. But some states are recovering more quickly than others. Statewide stay-at-home orders first froze the economy in mid March. For that month, the Commerce Department said consumer spending fell 7.5%, the sharpest monthly drop on records that go…
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North Texas Small Businesses Still in Need of SBA Help
On Thursday the Small Business Administration announced that it had exhausted the hundreds of billions of dollars so far allocated by congress for the “Paycheck Protection Program.”
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‘In Ruins': Economic Data Even Worse Than Anticipated
Consumer and manufacturing reports for March showed the hit to the economy from the coronavirus was even swifter and deeper in the early weeks of the shutdown than expected. March retail sales fell 8.7%, the most ever in government data, and New York regional manufacturing activity hit an all-time low, declining to a shocking negative 78.2%. Industrial production slipped 5.4%, the largest decline...
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Guard Against Coronavirus Scams, Fraud Cures and Other Cons
Millions of Americans will soon get checks from the government, as part of coronavirus relief efforts, and with the arrival of those stimulus checks, you can expect to hear more about schemes designed to feed on our fears about the virus and steal your money.
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These Are America's Favorite Online and Brick-and-Mortar Stores. Is Yours on the List?
American consumers continue to do more of their shopping online — and those who do are increasingly happy with the experience. In fact, internet retail is the only bright spot in the annual American Customer Satisfaction Index (ACSI) Retail and Consumer Shipping Report released last week. While satisfaction scores with brick-and-mortar stores remained unchanged, the ACSI score for internet retail rose...
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More Than $34 Million in Refund Checks Are Being Sent to Some Office Depot Customers
Refund checks totaling more than $34 million will be sent to consumers who allegedly were tricked by Office Depot, Inc. and a software provider into buying computer repair products and services, the Federal Trade Commission announced.
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Got a Gift Card? BBB Warns of Scammers Skimming Cards
Many of us now have gift cards to use after opening presents, however, we have a warning before you go out and spend it.
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Got a Gift Card? BBB Warns of Scammers Skimming Cards
Many of us now have gift cards to use after opening presents, however, we have a warning before you go out and spend it. According to the Federal Trade Commission, $74 million dollars have been lost in gift card and re-loadable card scams in the first three quarters of 2019. The Better Business Bureau Serving North Central Texas says what…