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You and Yours: Buy Now Pay Later, Dogs at Work and Slow Payments

13/10/2021

Buy Now Pay Later, Dogs at Work and Slow Payments

BBC Radio 4 - You and Yours, Buy Now Pay Later, Dogs at Work and Slow Payments

Should lonely dogs be allowed to 'return to work' with you? 'Which?' investigation finds scant warnings as retailers push Buy Now Pay Later deals.

Which? says retailers are bombarding online shoppers with invitations to buy now pay later  and the consumer association says not all of them are telling everything consumers need to know before choosing to use them.

Should lonely dogs be allowed to return the office with their owners? Simon Hoban explores the ins and outs of animals in the office.

Citizens in Northern Ireland are being sent £100 to spend in the shops. It's a government initiative to boost local high streets.

Advent Calendars used to be simple affairs, peeling back a tab to reveal a Christmas scene. Now they've morphed into mighty marketing events with the opportunity to buy and reveal anything from beer to sex toys.

As transatlantic flights prepare to return to full throttle on the most competitive flight route in the world, they'll find a challenger waiting to take them on. Jet Blue is not quite a budget airline and not quite full price: how will it perform given the brutal casualty rate of airlines who have tried to disrupt the route in the past?

The Nationwide Building Society is calling for more friction to be introduced into the payment system for some transactions. They say something needs to be done to stop the £4m a day now being lost to fraud.

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