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As a group, we search for new products to switch to more ethical products. Or even considering different products.

However, we do use products which wouldn't considered to be ethical e.g. books

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Manufacture products using sustainable products & 91% of use is recycled or made into energy

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Using Aluminium as a main resources to reduce carbon emissions instead of using different materials

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While I try to consider its when buying produce (Like free range chiken eggs over caged eggs, and typically animal friendly products over brands that I suspect may not be ethically sourced), I do not always consider the environmental consideration in my decision-making process for other products, that saying, I am more likely to buy things from companies who advertise their items as environmentally friendly.

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Dairy Innovation Fund
When buying dairy milk, some money goes back to dairy farmers

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Enough empty space, so the product wrapping isn't wasteful, making sure you get the most amount out of the product

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I attempt to! When grocery shopping I try to choose the products with the least amount of plastic packaging and recyclable materials to better help the environment. Try to choose products that have more quality based that will last longer rather then focus on mass consumption.
eg. glass water bottle from an Australian company that retails environmentally friendly products, i.e. reusable fresh food bags and reusable silicone food coverings

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Annoying because you think you're getting more than what you are. You would feel hungry. Wasting single use resources, making it unethical

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Lifetime friendly practices. Bring your kids to work (some have day care centers available). Support of work-life balance.

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Carbon neutral company. Clean energy. Supporting education in schools. Come out to schools to teach about carbon neutral technologies.

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Have adopted a reduced emission of the vehicles & have a focus on females in leadership roles while attempting to attain a healthy work-life balance

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It's Deceptive, doesn't feel ethical (like you're tricking your consumers), annoying, can be wasteful (Excess plastic).

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any chips, mousse, ice cream cones

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Enough to safely store the product without destruction.

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Smiths Chips, Doritoes, majority of food products (decpetive marketing to make you think you're getting more bang for your buck)

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The "must-have" phone back in the day

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Apple Iphone, air force 1s, doc martins, macbook

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Buying Iphone 3GS. Buying/collecting pokemon cards to show off/impress my friends.

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There is no harm to push people to buy the product to a certain degree. When it becomes harassment the salesperson should stop

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High pressure selling, lack of self-control can create false wants, often said that things are sold and not bought (Salespeople try to sell something to you), not a natural state of mind, cycle of mass consumption, creating false want that benefit industry more than they benefit consumers.

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Hire the female and work out a compromise. i.e. Have the female saleperson handle other sales so that a male salesperson can handle the important customer, pair a male and the female salesperson to handle the customer.

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If we were in their shoes, we would hire the female applicant, as she is more qualified. This could also benefit the organisation, as they are included women. If there was a problem with the salesperson not being the male, it could be possible to transfer salespeople to the preferred

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Less features, lower performance = less cost. Lite version of the printer. Just as long as it's safe.

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In 2017 when a MacBook was the cool thing to have

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Address the issue as it could be seen as false advertising, and balance between your ethics and the company's agenda to find a midway point.

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The low cost model, could end up damaging customers as it might not be safe. We would recommend not going ahead with this choice

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Nobody is going to be hurt by the change, so going ahead and putting the statement on the product would be okay to do. Also, there was a slight change anyways.

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No- explain why environmental considerations are not part of your decision-making process? 

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No- explain why environmental considerations are not part of your decision-making process? 

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Yes- provide an example of a recent purchase you have made and how environmental considerations were part of your decision-making process. 

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Yes- provide an example of a recent purchase you have made and how environmental considerations were part of your decision-making process. 

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Activity Question 5. Do you normally consider an organisation’s environmental practices when you are making purchase decisions? (Note: just be honest about your answers and don’t feel the need to conform with what you think is the socially acceptable answer). 

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Activity Question 5. Do you normally consider an organisation’s environmental practices when you are making purchase decisions? (Note: just be honest about your answers and don’t feel the need to conform with what you think is the socially acceptable answer). 

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Search online for three (3) examples of organisations that are adopting or have adopted more sustainable and/or ethical marketing practices. Provide a brief summary of each.

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Search online for three (3) examples of organisations that are adopting or have adopted more sustainable and/or ethical marketing practices. Provide a brief summary of each.

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Q2 a. What are your thoughts about false wants and materialism? 

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Q2 a. What are your thoughts about false wants and materialism? 

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Activity Question 4. Google announced in March 2021 that it will stop tracking users in Chrome to sell ads. This is a game changer and appears to be a step towards more sustainable and ethical marketing practices to protect the privacy of consumers. 

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Activity Question 4. Google announced in March 2021 that it will stop tracking users in Chrome to sell ads. This is a game changer and appears to be a step towards more sustainable and ethical marketing practices to protect the privacy of consumers. 

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Google says it won't develop new ways to follow individual users across the internet after it phases out existing ad-tracking technology from Chrome browsers, in a change that threatens to shake up the online advertising industry.

The digital giant has been working on proposals to remove from Chrome so-called third-party cookies, which are snippets of code used by a website's advertisers to record browsing history in order to show users personalised ads.

Google will continue to be able to track users through its services like Search or Maps. Credit:Bloomberg

Third-party cookies have long been a key tool for marketers to deliver targeted ads but they've also been a source of privacy concerns, so Google has proposed instead grouping together web users with similar interests and keeping web histories private on user devices.

Now the company - which will continue to be able to track users through its services like Search or Maps - has signalled that it's taking another step towards abandoning the use of individual tracking for ad sales.

"If digital advertising doesn't evolve to address the growing concerns people have about their privacy and how their personal identity is being used, we risk the future of the free and open web," David Temkin, Google's director of product management for ads privacy and trust, said in a blog post.

Temkin said the company continued to get questions on whether it would join others in the ad tech industry that planned to replace third-party cookies with alternative user-level identifiers.

"Today, we're making explicit that once third-party cookies are phased out, we will not build alternative identifiers to track individuals as they browse across the web, nor will we use them in our products," he said.

Google plans to roll out the changes, dubbed "privacy sandbox", by next year. However, Google's changes have drawn criticism from smaller players in the online ad industry as well as scrutiny from UK regulators over concerns that they will add to the tech giant's already dominant power in online advertising.

Chrome is the world's dominant web browser, and many rival browsers like Microsoft Edge are based on Google's Chromium technology.

Even though the moves are aimed at tightening up on privacy, Google will still be able to track users of its own services, says James Rosewell, CEO of Marketers for an Open Web, a group of media and advertising companies lobbying against the changes.

"What they're not saying is that 'people are logged into our products all the time' [and give consent to be tracked when they use Search, Maps, Gmail or YouTube]," Rosewell said. "What they're not saying is, 'we're going to stop all of that'."

Google's changes might not have a big impact on Facebook, the only other big player in the digital ad business, but Rosewell said it would squeeze out the small set of online advertising companies that competed for the sliver of online ad business left behind by the two tech giants.

If these smaller ad companies are edged out, it could mean higher prices for online ads because Google "is the only game in town" for search advertising, Rosewell said.

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Q4c. The article asks the question ‘how much empty space is reasonable?’. How would you answer this question?

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Q4c. The article asks the question ‘how much empty space is reasonable?’. How would you answer this question?

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Q3 a.Describe an example from your own life where the package size was deceptive. 

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Q3 a.Describe an example from your own life where the package size was deceptive. 

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Q3b.What are your thoughts about deceptive product packaging? 

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Q3b.What are your thoughts about deceptive product packaging? 

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Activity Question 3. Read this article by Choice titled ‘Food packaging tricks’ Click on link below. The article highlights how products are shrinking but package remain the same to mask the smaller size. 

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Activity Question 3. Read this article by Choice titled ‘Food packaging tricks’ Click on link below. The article highlights how products are shrinking but package remain the same to mask the smaller size. 

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The case of the disappearing products

A classic packaging trick is to shrink products and keep the packaging the same. In some cases, products are redesigned to mask the smaller size. Foods such as cereal in boxes might go down in weight, but the box stays the same or is altered in height and width so it's not immediately noticeable.

Canny CHOICE readers have spotted examples of shrinking products over the years:

The size of chocolate bars is reduced, but the number of pieces stays the same.

Toilet rolls still look the same on the outside, but have fewer sheets because manufacturers have increased the diameter of the cardboard tube in the middle.

Breakfast cereals shrink in packet size but not in box size.

Man-size large tissues shrink in size, but not in name despite being significantly smaller.

Packets of chips shrink in contents, along with price, but the packet stays the same size so it looks like a saving.

Some soap looks the same until you take off the wrapper and discover the new bars have been cunningly reshaped to be more concave so you actually get less soap per bar.

How much empty space is reasonable?

Snack foods of a fragile nature, such as chips or crackers, are generally loosely packaged and padded by air to protect them from being crushed and ending up as crumbs. Obviously a certain amount of empty space - or 'slack fill' as it's known in the industry - is necessary for cushioning the product. But the amount can vary, and to a consumer it may not always appear functional.

In chip packaging, even the time when potatoes are harvested can have some bearing on the air content in packets, as is the case with Kettle Chilli Slow Cooked Chips. "They vary in density throughout the growing season, which means at certain months of the year the chips take up more space in the pack for the same weight than at other times," Matt Jenkins from Snack Brands Australia, manufacturer of Kettle Chips, told us in 2014 when we investigated. "Our packaging has to accommodate this variation in size and density."

"We always aim to ensure the product volume is at least 70%, typical of industry targets," Bryce Howard, spokesperson for Tasti Products (which manufactures WeightWatchers Macadamia & Cranberry Cereal Nut Bars under licence), told us. But without their plastic wrappers, and neatly packed next to each other, these bars (pictured right) leave a lot of empty space in the cardboard box in which they come.

Howard told CHOICE the company uses the same size boxes for different products to make the production process more efficient, allow for machine tolerances (because the ingredients vary in size and density by season and source location) and accommodate the machines' extreme high operation speeds.

Room to move

Under national trade measurement laws there are no restrictions on the amount of product that can be placed in packages. This means a bigger box with a large amount of slack fill isn't necessarily breaking the law as long as it specifies the right weight or number of servings.

This makes it all the more important that product quantity information is prominently and legibly displayed on the front of the pack. As the Queensland Consumers' Association has said, "consumers need measurement information that can help them make informed decisions and to assist them to be aware of, and respond to, numerous other packaging practices that can result in consumer detriment, including content downsizing, excessive non-functional slack fill, and misleading packaging."

Which bag of sugar is bigger?

These two packets each contain 1kg of raw sugar, but one uses more packaging than the other and takes up markedly more shelf space − and is, therefore, more likely to attract your attention in the supermarket than the smaller packet. One theory is that it's designed to make you think you're getting more than from the competitor's brand.

The manufacturer of the larger bag offers other reasons for its choice of packaging. Sugar Australia, which makes CSR products, says while the bags used for its white and raw sugar are of a similar size, the packaging material and design are different. The white sugar bags are made of paper and the head space is folded and glued down, whereas the bag for raw sugar is plastic and not folded over. The company says this is because raw sugar is hygroscopic, meaning it takes up and retains moisture readily, so plastic bags provide better protection.

Big on labels, small on size

Some manufacturers use the argument that certain products need large labels, and thus larger containers, to display important information. CHOICE found the example of vitamins and supplements in containers that are only half full.

The manufacturers argue that the information that needs to be included on the label won't fit onto a smaller bottle in the correct font and style.

In other cases, food manufacturers say that the limitations of packaging machines means that certain products are packed with more air because the packaging can't be reduced. This equipment is a sizable investment so manufactures are probably reluctant to replace equipment unless they have to in order to make savings or comply with the law.

Don't fall for the shrink tricks

Check the weight of the package or the number of items it contains. A larger package doesn't always mean more contents.

Compare prices for a comparable unit by volume or weight. Unit pricing allows you to compare prices easily between grocery products packaged in different sizes. It's now mandatory for larger store-based, online and grocery retailers.

Don't buy a product if you believe it's deceptively packaged. Let the company know why you're rejecting it and, if you're concerned you've been misled, report the matter to the ACCC or your state or territory's Office of Fair Trading.

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Q2 b. What products have you bought a product to impress other people? 

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Q2 b. What products have you bought a product to impress other people? 

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Q1c.You are interviewing a capable female applicant for a job as salesperson. She is better qualified than the male applicants who have been interviewed. Nevertheless, you know that in your industry some important customers prefer dealing with male salespeople, and you will lose some sales if you hire her. What would you do?

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Q1c.You are interviewing a capable female applicant for a job as salesperson. She is better qualified than the male applicants who have been interviewed. Nevertheless, you know that in your industry some important customers prefer dealing with male salespeople, and you will lose some sales if you hire her. What would you do?

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Q1b. You have been asked to add a stripped-down, low cost model to your line of laser printers, which could be advertised to pull customers into stores. The product will not be very good, but salespeople will be able to switch buyers up to higher-priced units. You are asked to give the green light for the stripped-down version. What would you do?

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Q1b. You have been asked to add a stripped-down, low cost model to your line of laser printers, which could be advertised to pull customers into stores. The product will not be very good, but salespeople will be able to switch buyers up to higher-priced units. You are asked to give the green light for the stripped-down version. What would you do?

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Q1a. The Research and Development department has slightly changed one of your company’s products. It is not really ‘new and improved’, but you know that putting this statement on the package and in advertising will increase sales. What would you do?

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Q1a. The Research and Development department has slightly changed one of your company’s products. It is not really ‘new and improved’, but you know that putting this statement on the package and in advertising will increase sales. What would you do?

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Activity Question 2. One of the criticisms of marketing is that it promotes false wants and too much materialism. That is, it encourages ‘people to buy products that they don’t necessarily need or want to impress people that they don’t necessarily like’ and, relatedly, that people increasingly judge others on ‘what they have rather than who they are’. 

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Activity Question 2. One of the criticisms of marketing is that it promotes false wants and too much materialism. That is, it encourages ‘people to buy products that they don’t necessarily need or want to impress people that they don’t necessarily like’ and, relatedly, that people increasingly judge others on ‘what they have rather than who they are’. 

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Activity Question 1- As emerging business professionals, you will face ethically difficult situations.  Explain what you would you do in each of the following ethically difficult situations? (Note: just be honest about your answers and don’t feel the need to conform with what you think is the socially acceptable answer)

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Activity Question 1- As emerging business professionals, you will face ethically difficult situations.  Explain what you would you do in each of the following ethically difficult situations? (Note: just be honest about your answers and don’t feel the need to conform with what you think is the socially acceptable answer)