“Businesses have to constantly reinvent themselves and by doing so, it ensures that St. As an entrepreneur, you have to be innovative and present amazing offers and products that lead to sales.”īaker said every store should have a retail experience strategy that includes customer service and it will lead to an excellent destination for holiday shoppers. Overall, we need to promote retail shopping experiences that keep customers coming back. We are now in the Christmas holiday season, and this is the busiest period of the year for consumers and businesses. The main provisions of Ohio deceptive trade practice laws are highlighted in the following chart, with additional background and information below it. “Our inter-island shopping attraction has grown over the years and has always had a good reputation. Ohio deceptive trade practice laws prohibit false advertising, auto odometer tampering, and other shady business practices. Our country cannot afford to get a reputation of shady business practices,” COCI Executive Director Anastacio Baker said in the release. Thousands make their way here on an annual basis to purchase all kinds of products to take back to their respective islands. Maarten is a popular destination for Caribbean shoppers. … We do not know if what they are saying is true however, we advise any business to refrain from such business practices. “The Chamber has taken note of the statements. The Consumers Coalition referenced a consumers’ organisation investigation in the United Kingdom that found many products promoted as being “on sale” on Black Friday were actually cheaper before or after the Black Friday event.

Maarten Consumers Coalition, which at a press conference last Thursday urged shoppers who believe they were misled by Black Friday sales to report this to the Consumer Coalition’s office. Maarten Chamber of Commerce and Industry (COCI) urges businesses in the country to refrain from shady business practices.ĬOCI said in a press release on Monday that it has taken note of the statements made by the St.

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