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The Full Picture: News from this week
Moneymagpie Team
9th Jun 2023
The Full Picture: What they didn’t tell you
The news and contemporary media are a great source of information on global events, politics, weather, sports and more. But the mainstream news can be bias, pushing some happenings more than others, focusing on some topics heavily and neglecting key info.
Here at MoneyMagpie, we believe in the importance of sharing the latest that many mainstream outlets may have failed to, or deliberately chose not to, cover.
Every week, we’ll be rounding up some of the top stories that you may have missed.
- Could Tesco be breaking the law?
- Did the flu disappear?
- Is Apple’s new launch creating a dark future?
- Other stories
Could Tesco be breaking the law?
According to consumer champion Which?, supermarket Tesco’s lack of unit pricing on a vast majority of its grocery promotions could mean it’s breaking the law. But why could this be the case? Well, Which? believes it makes it difficult to compare which items are the best value.
Tesco has made the decision not to include unit pricing on many Clubcard offers. Unit pricing helps consumers see the price of an item in grams or kilograms, millilitres or litres, for example. Produce that shows the price per 100g, for example, can help shoppers make decisions based on the true value of the product.
Now, Which? Has suggested that in some cases, this could be a misleading practice under the Consumer Protection from Unfair Trading Regulations 2008 (CPRs). They have now reported Tesco to the regulator and are encouraging the supermarket giant to rethink their current practice.
Unit pricing can help shoppers compare prices and make more informed decisions when buying groceries. This is particularly helpful at the moment, as food inflation soars and people are struggling during the cost-of-living crisis.
You can find out more about the decision by Which? here.
Did the flu disappear in 2020/21?
According to the stats, flu largely disappeared during 2020 and 2021. However, some sceptics are now concerned it was labelled as Covid instead. Some Covid number crunchers have done work on this. According to The Daily Sceptic, their main claim is that flu surveillance in the UK was failing to pick up signals of what was, in reality, a normal flu season with ordinary influenza prevalence, overshadowed by the fears of the pandemic.
However, data shows that testing for influenza continued at a high rate throughout the pandemic, with the proportion of samples that came back positive remained close to zero throughout. The Daily Sceptic believes this is compelling evidence that influenza was genuinely absent throughout this period, as there is no plausible way to explain these near-100% proportions of negative test results in thousands of surveillance samples.
You can read The Daily Sceptic’s full article and findings on this here.
Is Apple’s Vision Pro creating a dark future?
This week, tech giant Apple announced the launch of the brand-new Vision Pro headset, which allows users to immerse themselves in a virtual world. It’s an exciting new tech release – or is it? Many people are now worried about what the future could hold with all-encompassing virtual realities positioning themselves as a norm.
The latest release takes entertainment, social media and online retail into a new realm. It should be a tech breakthrough, but Unherd isn’t so sure. The alternative news site has called Apple’s latest invention ‘uncanny’ and ‘off-putting’. Not only does the headset use technology to create the illusion that the ‘goggles’ are see-through using pictures of your eyes, but it can track everything about you, more than usual.
Unherd say: “Despite what it might display to the outside world, the underlying technology is very interested in the real you — minutely interested, in fact…eye movements can be tracked along with other subtle body signals to build up a detailed model of the user’s intended actions — even to the extent of predicting what you’re going to do a moment before you do it.”
Find out more about Apple’s new product here.
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