Category Archives: Consumer activism

Sub-par service from the Marriott

I recently stayed at the Marriott hotel in downtown Durham, North Carolina while traveling on business.  There were signs plastered all over the hotel about the hotel’s “Whatever It Takes”  initiative for making their guests comfortable.  Shortly after my arrival, I went down to the front desk to ask if they had any Advil or… Read More »

CVS Photo Center strikes out

July 13, 2006 Thomas M. Ryan, President CVS Corporation One CVS Drive Woonsocket, RI 02895 Dear Mr. Ryan, They say that 96% of customers you lose won’t tell you why they left, even if you pay them. Pay attention… I’m the other 4%.

HMO as (bad) doctor

My wife and I each recently received letters from Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts, our health insurer through my employer. These letters introduced us to a program being run by BCBS which, to put it bluntly, is wrong, wrong, wrong.