Tactics businesses use to take more from your account

View from a Hill with Mike Hill

- Mike Hill

During the first lockdown of 2020 we placed an order with one of those online beer companies to deliver a case of ale to our front door once a month.

It was a treat to receive a regular box of booze at a time when socialising was on hold and get-togethers were reduced to a weekly wall of faces through an online Zoom call.

Five years on and a courier still brings a delivery to the doorstep, although each time it arrives it is a little earlier in the month so the crafty craft beer merchants can squeeze 13 orders into a year instead of the Gregorian calendar's traditional 12.