Framed : Overpriced Eyewear / Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.

This program focuses on the outrageously high price of spectacles. In this eye-opening report, CBC reporter Tom Harrington pits Canada's biggest chain stores against the leading online retailer, a company whose new business model is a total game changer. He also catches up with an industry insider w...

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Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:Films on Demand.
Corporate Authors: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Films for the Humanities & Sciences (Firm)
Infobase
Language:English
Language and/or Writing System:
Closed-captioned.
Published: New York, N.Y. : Infobase, [2014], ©2011.
Series:Films on Demand.
Subjects:
Eyeglasses.
Marketing > Corrupt practices.
Selling > Corrupt practices.
Canada.
Educational films.
Internet videos.
Genre:
Educational films.
Internet videos.
Online Access:
Connect to online resource - MSU authorized users (Films On Demand @ Infobase)
Physical Description:1 online resource (22 min.) : sound, color
Variant Title:
Overpriced Eyewear
Format: Electronic Video
Description
Summary:
This program focuses on the outrageously high price of spectacles. In this eye-opening report, CBC reporter Tom Harrington pits Canada's biggest chain stores against the leading online retailer, a company whose new business model is a total game changer. He also catches up with an industry insider who challenged the established players and paid a huge price for defying the status quo.
Note:Encoded with permission for digital streaming by Infobase on August 24, 2014.
Films on Demand is distributed by Infobase for Films for the Humanities & Sciences, Cambridge Educational, Meridian Education, and Shopware.
Electronic resource.
Interest Grade Level:
6 & up.
System Details:Mode of access: Internet.
System requirements: FOD playback platform.
Participant or Performer:
Reporter: Tom Harrington
Source of Description:
Title from distributor's description.