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Toyota's recent spate of quality woes have allowed competitors to steal sales from the beleaguered automaker. Ford is also catching up with Toyota in another important measure of auto industry success -- consumers' opinions of vehicle brands.

Seems Store Brand Scorecard isn't the only one doing its thing. Consumer Reports has a new study in its October edition (out now) that estimates consumers who spend $100 a week on groceries can save up to $1,500 a year buying store brands. But the question we always pose is "Are the savings worth...

Let's flash back to the beginning of December. The Consumer Reports National Research Center polled more than 1,000 randomly-selected consumers to find out how much they planned to spend on gifts this holiday season. The answer: $699 on average, about $65 less than they planned to spend in the...

Have you been offered a bad credit deal by a lender but don't know why? Starting in January 2011, banks will have to tell you why and give you free access to your credit report any time you're given less-favorable terms, according to final rules issued Tuesday by the Federal Reserve and the Federal...

As a 50-something female, I'll admit to having been lured by the siren call of wrinkle creams for years. Apparently, I'm not alone in wanting the claim of "brighter, younger-looking eyes" to be true. Americans spend more than $1 billion a year on wrinkle removers. Anyhow, I was interested in...

You hear a lot about drug prices going up and up, but consider the case of Ann Stewart of Mattapan, Mass., who faced a price of $146 for her diabetes medicine. After a transfer of prescriptions, she's now paying $4. And then there's financially strapped Glenn Funchess, a cancer patient in...

Consumer Reports WebWatch, a well-known watchdog site that detailed web-based scams and schemes and worked to educate consumers about online perils, is being shut down by its parent, Consumers Union, Walletpop,com has learned. WebWatch started eight years ago, and in its early years it was a...

This just in from the "We saw you lying face down on the curb so we figured we'd kick you in the ribs" department: Consumer Reports has issued its annual rankings of the most reliable car companies. "Chrysler is a sad story," says David Champion, the magazine's auto testing chief. "The new models...

Word comes today that the blog The Consumerist, which plays on the same swing set as WalletPop, has been bought by the Consumers Union, publishers of Consumer Reports. I find this a curious union. Consumer Reports is, to my mind, the best source for non-biased, data-driven comparisons and...