Bury Market and Trading Standards keeping shoppers safe from counterfeits
Bury Market and trading standards officers are working to protect shoppers and legitimate businesses by helping to stamp out rogue traders and counterfeit products.
Bury Market and trading standards officers are working to protect shoppers and legitimate businesses by helping to stamp out rogue traders and counterfeit products.
Help to protect people from falling victim to scams is being offered at Ramsbottom Library on Monday 3 June.
More than half of consumers don’t know they have fewer rights when buying from a private seller, compared to business purchases, according to analysis of online marketplace reports to Citizens Advice conducted in the last year.
As part of National Consumer Week 2014 (3-7 November), residents in Bury are being urged to look out for rogue doorstep traders preying on elderly and vulnerable neighbours.
Bury Council consists of six towns, Bury, Ramsbottom, Tottington, Radcliffe, Whitefield and Prestwich. Formed in April 1974 as a result of Local Government re-organisation it was one of the ten original districts that formed the County of Greater Manchester. The Borough has an area of 9,919 hectares (24,511 acres) and serves a population of 187,500.
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