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Webjet in legal battle over flight price misrepresentation

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The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) launched the legal action in the Federal Court against Webjet for displaying “flights from $X” statements but omitting its compulsory service fee and booking price guarantee fee in the advertised prices between November 2018 and November 2023.

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Blue Sky Kids Land fined $5 million for exploiting Chinese workers

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The FWO discovered that the company had employed four Chinese women in retail positions at its stores between October 2015 and June 2018. Q Fay Trading, a company operated by Gu and Yang which imported and supplied products to the stores, also received a $44,100 fine.

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Bunnings breached privacy laws, Privacy Commissioner says

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From November 2018 to November 2021, Bunnings implemented a trial FRT at 63 stores in Victoria and NSW, capturing the faces of every visitor. Bunnings breached privacy laws by using facial recognition technology (FRT), the Privacy Commissioner determined.

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Brett Blundy’s new lingerie label named – but how is it pronounced?

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” BBRC previously owned a lingerie chain called Bras N Things, which once got to 200 stores and was sold to US underwear group Hanes for $500 million in 2018. . “One interpretation is that reads like the American potato crips brand, but another more likely is ‘lace’ which would at least be relevant.”

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Japan’s luxury secondhand sector gains popularity as tourism booms

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Entering the US in 2018, 2nd Street had 43 stores in the country at the end of November. Opening its first overseas outlet in China in September 2018, the company now operates 21 stores across Taiwan, Singapore, and Thailand. Besides the US, the company currently operates stores in Taiwan, Malaysia and Thailand.

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Silly Solly’s plans 10 more stores as it moves to franchise model

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We believe in the model, it’s been operating since 2018.” The Silly Solly’s brand has come full circle, now owned by Stanton and an Australian management team that reinvented the model in 2018. “We We experimented with a couple of stores and decided there was a need for this, ” said Stanton.

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Wesfarmers sells the last of its Coles Group stake

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Wesfarmers has sold all of its remaining shares in the supermarket chain, Coles Group, which it spun off in 2018. Since the demerger of Coles from Wesfarmers in November 2018, Wesfarmers has gradually reduced its shareholding in Coles,” said the company in a statement. per share.

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