But the packaging and delivery of that treatment are often inefficient, ineffective, and consumer unfriendly".
However, it is a myth to believe that loyalty programs are ineffective when consumers hold loyalty cards from competing stores.
Created in the 1970's, the commission was nearly eliminated in the Reagan administration, and after its budget was eviscerated and it was filled with relatively ineffective officials, frustrated consumer groups contemplated recommending that it be eliminated.
Mr Grade said the restrictions on food and drink advertising to under-16s, unveiled by Ofcom last year, are ineffective and patronised consumers.
In reality, though, occupational licensure has been costly and ineffective; it misleads consumers about the quality of licensed lawyers and the potential for non-lawyers to provide able assistance.
She declined to comment on her dinner with Mr. Howard, but through a spokesman said: "Why wouldn't our past presidents agree on shrinking government by transforming a bunch of bloated, ineffective and unaccountable consumer-protection bureaucracies into a smaller, streamlined, and effective agency?
Federal preemption the constitutional doctrine that state-law litigation targets regularly cite as a defense has generally been an ineffective argument against consumer-protection suits, especially those alleging misleading or false labeling of food and other packaged goods.
Governor Cuomo recognizes that the federal TSCA Act is outdated and ineffective and that consumers deserve protection from chemicals that increase their risk of cancer and other diseases.
Reliance on deceptive advertising promoting ineffective "natural" products for "consumer choice," or on people's ability to read and understand the risks and benefits of different products, is not a viable option.
Last year the city began offering tax credits, loans and energy discounts to new groceries, sit-down restaurants and fresh-food purveyors that settled in the neighborhood, and the ban on new fast-food restaurants, derided by some as misguided and an ineffective way to alter consumers' behavior, is believed to be the first of its kind in the country.
