If you missed my Saturday column, it’s about an online lingerie retailer that is having a tough time filling its orders. Here’s the lede:

Consumers shopping for a bawdy Halloween costume - or leather and latex lingerie for more everyday wear…

If you’ve got personal information you don’t need anymore, you can destroy those old financial statements and other documents for free at “Shred Day” in Edwardsville.

The event, which will be held from 9 a.m. to noon at the Schnuck’s supermarket…

Maxine Clark, founder and chief executive of Build-A-Bear Workshop

When the Better Business Bureau is mentioned in this blog, it seldom has anything good to say about area companies and their business practices.

Once a year, however, the group honors what it…

Restaurant owners beware: Flimflam artists pretending to be hearing impaired are trying to steal hundreds of dollars from St. Louis area eateries.

The Better Business Bureau in St. Louis said that two city restaurants were marked in the clever, if complicated,…

Consumers donating clothes and household items to three St. Louis thrift stores might think they’re helping disabled veterans. But the Better Business Bureau says the company that runs the shops won’t document how much money, if any, ends up going…

I wrote a story in Tuesday’s paper about cancellation penalties assessed by Mogi, a St. Charles-based broker of extended auto-service contracts. If you’re interested in more information about the allegations against the company, you’re in luck: here is the federal…

US Fidelis Chief Executive Chris Riley

More than three months after the new chief executive of US Fidelis told the Better Business Bureau he planned to make sweeping, consumer-friendly reforms at the Wentzville firm, the watchdog group says the number of consumers filing…

Business association of trophy peddler?

St. Louis area business should be wary if they get e-mails announcing that they’ve won a “prestigious” award from the Washington-based U.S. Commerce Association. Businesses have to pay for the plaques and trophies and the group…

If you’re in charge of ordering office supplies for your work, you might want to steer clear of a Missouri supplier that — according to consumers and the Better Business Bureau — misleads people into thinking it is liquidating its…

If you missed it in yesterday’s paper, here’s an Associated Press story about the latest headache for brokers of extended auto-service contracts: a call by a powerful U.S. senator for a federal investigation into the industry, much of which is based…