The Checkout Ep4 airs Thursday, 8pm on ABC1
April 10 2013, 11:01 am | | 1 Comment
ABC TV will air the fourth episode of its new satirical show, The Checkout tomorrow (Thursday) at 8:00pm on ABC1 featuring Craig Reucassel and Julian Morrow (The Hamster Wheel, The Chaser’s War on Everything), Kirsten Drysdale (Hungry Beast) and Kate Browne from consumer group Choice.
If you’re sick of being misled, lied to, taken advantage of, or just plain confused when you buy, you have the right not to remain silent … and The Checkout team is at your service. For a limited time only.
In this week’s episode:
- Taking on The Man – The Checkout team lines up its biggest, most dangerous target yet … Bubble-o-Bill
- Milking It – Craig finds out who’s telling white lies about milk prices and helping farmers
- Jetstar v Alan Jarman – Round Two : lovable senior Alan Jarman ups the ante in his one-man, quibbling crusade against Jetstar’s ridiculous credit card fees
- Tricks of the Trade Mags – Jules compares the ads we see, to the way products are advertised to retailers … and discovers the slushie with a 980% mark-up!
- H2 OMG! – The search for Australia’s most expensive bottled water continues, as the search for Australia’s most expensive web access begins #mostexpensive
- If I Could Say One Thing – Alan Kirkland, CEO of consumer group CHOICE, explains why you shouldn’t be seduced by credit card reward schemes
- Direct marketing – Kirsten finds out how retailers knew a teenager was pregnant before her parents did
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I missed last Thursdays program on Jetstar, business ethics however a friend saw it .
I flew back from Bali 2 weeks ago today & after paying to ore book my seat, expensive meals on board just to name a few extra charges…. Jetstar proceeded to literally ‘freeze us to death ‘ for,the 6 hour flight. The only thing they could offer was blankets for $14 rather than turn the temp down. The cold mist was coming down off the lighting….. Never ever experienced anything like this is my entire life of flying , which is my whole life. I am in my 40’s.
Need less to,say, the rest of my hard earnt annual leave was spent indoors . 2 days in bed , with the worst flu I have ever had. Now on antibiotics & had a very trying first week back at work, not wanting to take sick leave after 2 weeks holidays.
Seriously?? Are they getting so desperate to make extra money & a whole plane of people… Potentially very sick?????
I will never ever fly them again, and unfortunately this incident has gone around 10000 fold!!!!